Climate science must unlock solutions in new era

Mukherji, A. 2025. Climate Science must unlock solutions in new era. SciDev.net - Agriculture, Oxford. https://www.scidev.net/global/opinions/climate-science-must-unlock-solutions-in-new-era/

As 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming is reached, climate science must look to the future, writes Aditi Mukherji, director of CGIAR’s Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Action Platform and IPCC author.

By the time the world’s leading climate scientists publish their next report in 2028-29, the world will already have possibly breached 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era for a few years and the deadline for the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals will be on the horizon. The threshold set by the 2015 Paris Agreement to reduce the impacts of climate change was passed for the first time in 2024, the EU’s climate change service, Copernicus, confirmed last week (10 January). So, as the next assessment of climate science from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gets under way, it’s vital that we answer the questions that will serve us in the future. Navigating the challenges of tomorrow requires forward-looking science today and in the months ahead.