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The IPCC is now in its sixth assessment cycle, in which the IPCC is producing the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) with contributions by its three Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, three Special Reports, and a refinement to its latest Methodology Report.

The Working Group-III contribution, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change was released on April 4, 2022. The Working Group-III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. Kindly click here to access the Summary for Policymakers (approved version) of the report Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (released on April 4, 2022). Please click here to access the IPCC Working Group-III report titled 'Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change'.

Kindly click here to access the main takeaways of the third instalment of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), published on April 4, 2022. It has been prepared by Avantika Goswami, Centre for Science and Environment.

The six main findings are: 

* Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 54 percent higher in 2019 than they were in 1990, but growth is slowing

* Least developed countries emitted only 3.3 percent of global emissions in 2019

* Pledges to the Paris Agreement are insufficient, emissions must fall 43 percent by 2030 compared to 2019

* Abundant and affordable solutions exist across sectors including energy, buildings, and transport, as well as individual behavioural changes

* The impact on GDP would be negligible and the long-term benefits of cutting emissions immediately would outweigh the initial costs

* Finance falls short, especially in developing countries, but there is sufficient money in the world to close this gap

The Working Group-II contribution, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability was released on February 28, 2022. The Working Group-II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change. Kindly click here to access the Summary for Policymakers (approved version) of the report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (released on February 28, 2022). Please click here to access the IPCC Working Group-II report titled 'Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability'. 

The Working Group-I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis was released on August 9, 2021. The Working Group-I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. Please click here to access the Summary for Policymakers (approved version) of the report Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (released on August 9, 2021). Please click here to access the IPCC Working Group-I report titled 'Climate  Change  2021: The Physical Science Basis'. 

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Please click here and here to access the CSE report titled 25.87 Million Hectares (released in February, 2022), which has been prepared by Sunita Narain. Since 1988, when Forest Survey of India (FSI) produced the first “State of Forest Report 1987”, the capability of satellites and of interpretation of forests has improved substantially, but the same is not the case with the state of the country’s forest cover. 

The “India State of Forest Report 2021” (ISFR 2021), released on January 13, 2022, shows a minimal increase of 0.16 million ha (0.2 percent) in the forest cover between 2019 and 2021. The quality of forests also seems to have been stable. There is, in fact, some increase in the “very dense” forest category (with canopy cover of over 70 percent) and in the “open” forest category (canopy cover 10-40 percent), and almost an equal decrease in the moderately dense forest category (canopy cover 40-70 percent). One may argue that this does not merit analysis—criticism or boast. But the fact is that (i) more forests are now growing outside than inside the recorded forest area (forest land under control of the state government’s forest department); (ii) most forests are now concentrated in areas classified as “tribal” by ISFR 2021; (iii) reported forest area is increasing by counting trees outside the forest; and (iv) even the forest stock is growing outside the recorded forest area.

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The main findings of the India State of Forest Report 2021 (released in January 2022), which has been prepared by the Forest Survey of India (under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change), are as follows (please click here to access):  

• The total forest and tree cover of the country is 80.9 million hectare which is 24.62 percent of the geographical area of the country. As compared to the assessment of 2019, there is an increase of 2,261 sq km in the total forest and tree cover of the country. Out of this, the increase in the forest cover has been observed as 1,540 sq km and that in tree cover is 721 sq km.

• Increase in forest cover has been observed in open forest followed by very dense forest. Top three states showing increase in forest cover are Andhra Pradesh (647 sq km) followed by Telangana (632 sq km) and Odisha (537 sq km).

• Area-wise Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in the country followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra. In terms of forest cover as percentage of total geographical area, the top five States are Mizoram (84.53 percent), Arunachal Pradesh (79.33 percent), Meghalaya (76.00 percent), Manipur (74.34 percent) and Nagaland (73.90 percent).

• 17 states/ UTs have above 33 percent of the geographical area under forest cover. Out of these states and UT’s, five states/UTs namely Lakshadweep, Mizoram, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have more than 75 percent forest cover while 12 states/UTs namely Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura, Goa, Kerala, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Assam, Odisha, have forest cover between 33 percent to 75 percent.

• Total mangrove cover in the country is 4,992 sq km. An increase of 17 sq Km in mangrove cover has been observed as compared to the previous assessment of 2019. Top three states showing mangrove cover increase are Odisha (8 sq km) followed by Maharashtra (4 sq km) and Karnataka (3 sq km).

• Total carbon stock in country’s forest is estimated to be 7,204 million tonnes and there an increase of 79.4 million tonnes in the carbon stock of country as compared to the last assessment of 2019. The annual increase in the carbon stock is 39.7 million tonnes.



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