A French News ncy has reported that participants of UN assessment report of SROCC have cited that Saudi Arabia is blocking option of a major UN report on oceans and climate change by challenging an earlier UN assessment highlighting need to slash carbon emissions caused by burning fossil fuels. In 2015, about 196 countries signed Paris Agreement within United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, dealing with greenhouse-gas-emissions mitigation, aptation, and finance. agreement called for capping global warming at "well below" 2-degree Celsius, and 1.5-degree celsius. Yet Saudis reject this statement, claim participants of 195-nation Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Monaco.

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UN approves on climate change reports

As per recent reports, a major report detailing dire impact of global warming on oceans and Earth's frozen zones was approved by UN's 195-nation climate science body on September 24 after an all-night standoff with Saudi Arabia over wording. Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) revealed in a series of tweets that Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) has been confirmed. As tweeted previously on Tuesday, IPCC has also tweeted details of assessment on Wednesday. A 30-p executive summary is scheduled for release on same day. summary mentioned that 104 authors from 36 countries contributed to report on climate change with about 6981 papers and 31176 comments were ded up to come to approval.

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Saudi Arabia tried to block approval: participants

Yet oil giant Saudi Arabia held up option of Summary for Policy Makers - 30-odd ps, vetted line-by-line - by challenging ar landmark UN assessment that highlights need to slash carbon emissions caused by burning fossil fuels, said participants. At issue was what might have been a routine reference to an October 2018 IPCC report on feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. This very assessment detailed stark consequences for humanity of piercing that threshold and need for deep cuts in use of fossil fuels. rway, Britain, France, Cana, Chile European Union were resisting Saudi proposals to drop any reference to 1.5 C report, or include a reference to its alleged "shortcomings" said two or sources.

"It has been 24 hours and re has been absolutely compromise from Saudis. y are undermining science underlying this report, and it is despicable. It really seems like Saudi Arabia only came to this meeting to block any langu on 1.5C," participants said.

IPCC reports conclude that carbon-heavy footprints of humanity are leing to global warming and pollution which in turn are ravaging Earth's oceans and icy regions in ways that could unleash misery on a global scale. Millions of people could be displaced under impacts of vanishing glaciers, and expanding marine heatwaves, mentioned draft. About 195 countries needed to sign off on langu of a 30-p Summary of IPCC for Policymakers, designed to provide leers with objective, science-based information which was approved.

(With inputs from PTI)

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