Key messages from European science academies for UNFCCC COP26 and CBD COP15 / EASAC Secretariat, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences, EASAC, EASAC Brussels Office, Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (RASAB)

Abstract

The recent IPCC Report confirms that global warming is getting faster and faster. The impact is playing in real time as we watch villages flood and forests burn. Meanwhile the hidden crisis of biodiversity loss continues with the loss of forests to land clearance, exacerbated by the fires. As the Climate and Biodiversity Crises potentiate each other, EASAC’s new Commentary adds the most recent data to inform both the UN Glasgow Climate Summit 2021 and the Biodiversity Summit in China 2021, with a focus on 16 areas requiring urgent action to shield humanity from the worst.