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Your Climate Action Diary - 36

Year 2023 • Week 13 • Anushthatri Sharma
Hi,
 
Hope you are well !

We have had some very interesting developments, the past few weeks. 

On March 20, the IPCC (which is a body of the world’s leading climate scientists) published the ‘Synthesis Report’ boiling down 7 years of complex scientific findings into 85 pages. It acts as a hard-handing over of 'latest scientific-knowledge' on climate to policy-makers for efficient climate related policy-making.

On March 29, the first-ever public ‘climate justice’ hearing was held addressing the duty of states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The case brought by 2,038 elderly women against the Swiss Government’s climate change policy was heard in a packed courtroom in the European Court of Human Rights.

However, the real significance of these March 2023 milestone is best contextualised by our third piece this week - which presents the forces (and their nature of obstructions) against which constant work is done to ensure such milestones forge through & the climate dialogue stays on course.

Let's stay mindful together, 

Harish, 
Team OnePointFive Tribe

Effort to Prevent Meaningful Climate-Action, Reported

Series of recent reports/investigations following the publication of the IPCC’s Synthesis Report has exposed attempts (by several oil/gas-producing nations) to water-down/remove references to the environmental costs of 'burning fossil fuels & consuming meat' & add language to support carbon capture technologies.(IPCC Report's approval process requires unanimous buy-in from delegates of all 195 nations involved, opening opportunities for such counter-tactics)

IPCC's All-Awaited Synthesis Report Published (For Policy-Makers)

On March 20, IPCC published it's ‘Synthesis Report’ summarising the latest in ‘global knowledge on climate’. It is the last report in a series of reports, IPCC produced during its 6th assessment period - covering (i) new knowledge in the physical science of the climate crisis, (ii) impacts of the climate crisis & (iii) how to adapt to them, & ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. IPCC reports tend to form the foundation on which global policy effort is shaped. Here are six key take-aways.

29 March 2023, Marks New Era in ‘Climate Justice’

On March 29, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on a ‘historic-first’ witnessed the first-ever public hearing addressing the duty of states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including a case brought by 2,038 elderly women against the Swiss Government’s climate change policy for violating their right to health. (The Case: Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland)

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