10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020

Top 10 insights in climate science in 2020 selected by 57 leading global researchers

With impacts from climate change threatening to be as abrupt and far-reaching in the coming years as the current pandemic, leading scientists have released a compilation of the 10 most important insights on the climate from the last year to help inform collective action on the ongoing climate crisis. In a report presented on 27 January 2021 to Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United NationsFramework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), report authors outlined some of 2020’s most important findings within the field of climate science.

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020 report was prepared by a consortium of 57 leading researchers from 21 countries. As a partnership of Future Earth, the Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the series synthesizes the latest sustainability research for the international science-policy community, with annual installments since 2017.

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