Amazon and Northeast region are highly vulnerable to climate change, says IPCC

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the second part of its 6th report, focusing on impacts and solutions to curb climate change. The first part, released in August 2021, highlighted the impact of human action on the Earth’s climate system.

The O Eco website made a thorough analysis of the main impacts expected for Brazil. If the levels of greenhouse gas emissions remain high, the Northeast region may have a reduction in rainfall of up to 22%, becoming a semi-desert region, and “droughts in the Amazon region associated with deforestation and fires, could transform the humid forest into a savanna region,” indicates the article. Among the other impacts of climate change for Brazil are lethal heat waves, floods and the colapse of agriculture.

“Brazil is not adapting to climate change. There is the National Adaptation Plan, but it hasn’t been implemented yet. Look at the issue of reforestation of hillsides, which is an adaptation technique to avoid extreme climate events, if it had occurred in Petrópolis, we wouldn’t have had this disaster that we saw. Any climate adaptation mechanism that does not take into account the functioning of ecosystems is obviously doomed to failure,” said Paulo Artaxo, one of the researchers involved in the report.