141. IPCC Report: Adapt or Die! with Patrick Verkooijen
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
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Summary
The latest IPCC Report from Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability comes at an unprecedented moment in human history. A moment too late to avoid all effects of climate change baked into an already 1.1C warmer world, and a moment not too late to adapt humanity and all species to our increasingly important target of only 1.5C of warming.
In a strikingly clear connection this report makes between human and ecosystem vulnerability, the science is clear; Either we adapt, or we perish. Because between 3.3-3.6 Billion humans are currently living in areas “highly vulnerable to climate change”.
So, with over 270 scientists that poured over 34,000 publications and assessed 127 risks telling us to adapt now, Now, NOW! …how do we cut to the heart of those at the levers of economic and governmental power already dealing with war, famine, a pandemic, the list goes on.
This week, Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation joins us to lay out the findings of this next section of the IPCC report, and how tapping into humanity’s enlightened Self-interest (with a capital S) can take investment now into adaptation and promise exponential returns for humanity, as well as all species on Earth.
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READ: The IPCC Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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Thanks to our guest this week, Patrick Verkooijen!
Patrick Verkooijen
CEO | Global Center on Adaptation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism. I'm Tom Ravikarnak. I'm Cristiana Fierires. |
| 0:16.9 | And I'm Paul Dickinson. Today we're bringing you a special bonus episode on the IPCC report |
| 0:22.9 | on the impact of climate and adaptation. And for that we're speaking to Director of the |
| 0:27.6 | Global Centre of Adaptation Patrick Vakoyan. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:45.6 | So today we have an episode for you that we recorded yesterday when we spoke to Patrick Vakoyan, |
| 0:50.7 | the CEO of the Global Centre on Adaptation. And in this we delve into the report that came out from |
| 0:55.9 | the IPCC looking specifically at the impacts of climate change and what we need to do to adapt to |
| 1:01.6 | them. Now this report makes for some pretty stark reading. There's some data in there that |
| 1:05.9 | demonstrates the scale of the challenge that we're facing and it is all fairly overwhelming but it |
| 1:11.3 | does contain seeds of optimism in terms of what we need to do at this last critical moment in |
| 1:16.3 | history to deal with it. So first of all Cristiana I think you're going to give us a couple of |
| 1:20.0 | minutes summary as to what you took from the report and then we're going to flip to the interview |
| 1:24.0 | with Patrick and we will see you all back here on Thursday for an episode digging into the Ukraine |
| 1:29.6 | crisis with two former foreign secretaries of the UK. Cristiana over to you. I would just |
| 1:34.8 | encourage you to listen carefully to Cristiana because Secretary Jenner Guterres called this an |
| 1:38.4 | Atlas of Human Suffering and I'm sure if it was not for the crisis in Ukraine this is this |
| 1:42.8 | report is all we would be talking about this week. Yeah that's true it's a good point. |
| 1:46.2 | So Cristiana. Yeah so just so that we understand a little bit about this report. |
| 1:52.8 | listeners may remember that we're actually in the process of what is called the sixth assessment |
| 1:57.6 | report which happens more or less every six to seven years and before the COP we had the first part |
| 2:05.1 | of that assessment report. This is the second part that is devoted to adaptation and then we will |
| 2:11.6 | have the third part coming out later in the year and finally a summary of all three parts that |
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