Leading scientists and climate researchers meet regularly to compare their assessments of climate change and their forecasts and to produce a joint report: The This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf.
In the new IPCC report, everyone agrees that climate change is already having a serious impact on many areas. Rising temperatures and the increase in extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods and droughts are having a dramatic impact on food security, health and migration.
There is also a strong consensus among scientists that action must be taken immediately to avoid more serious consequences. However, with the current course, it is not possible to achieve the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees. It is clear that any further warming would have disproportionately greater consequences and increase the likelihood of irreversible tipping points being crossed. It is also clear that not everyone is equally affected by climate change. Those who have contributed the least to climate change (such as the world’s poorest countries or future generations) will be hit the hardest by climate change.
In recent years, terre des hommes schweiz has therefore already taken a closer look at what it can do as an organization to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions. In this context, the two organizations terre des hommes schweiz in Basel and Terre des Hommes Suisse in Geneva have pooled their expertise and worked on a joint climate and environmental roadmap over the past year. With the roadmap, the Climate Roadmap, the alliance has committed to integrating the reduction of its ecological footprint into all central work processes.
terre des hommes schweiz is also committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland and worldwide. In particular, politicians and legislators are called upon to take the necessary measures.
