The effects of climate change – extreme heat waves, wildfires of unprecedented magnitude and devastating floods – have now been occurring for several decades, and the COP26 climate agreement reached in Glasgow will not be enough to keep global warming below 2°C, as the French climatologist Benjamin Sultan recently said.
Species do not escape these disruptions. In a report from the IPBES, the equivalent of the IPCC for biodiversity, ecologists highlight dramatic declines in numbers throughout the world, including in regions which are apparently preserved.
Future projections are no better. Studies aimed at predicting the effects of climate change suggest there will be winners and losers, but mostly losers - not to mention the risks of invasion by the “winners”.
Although the idea of containing global warming to less than 2°C is making headway, that endeavour would nonetheless remain insufficient, as stressed in a study published in the leading journal Climate Change.
The frog and the gecko: why tropical species are at greater climate risk
Species do not escape these disruptions. In a report from the IPBES, the equivalent of the IPCC for biodiversity, ecologists highlight dramatic declines in numbers throughout the world, including in regions which are apparently preserved.
Future projections are no better. Studies aimed at predicting the effects of climate change suggest there will be winners and losers, but mostly losers - not to mention the risks of invasion by the “winners”.
Although the idea of containing global warming to less than 2°C is making headway, that endeavour would nonetheless remain insufficient, as stressed in a study published in the leading journal Climate Change.
The frog and the gecko: why tropical species are at greater climate risk