Press Release: Climate change: IPCC report confirms EU call for deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions

European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas called on developed and advanced developing countries to commit to substantially reducing their greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades following a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on mitigating global warming. The consensus report from IPCC’s working group III (WG III) confirms the EU’s analysis that global emissions must start to fall within the next 15 years and then be cut to around half of 1990 levels by 2050 if the world is to have a fair chance of preventing irreversible and possibly catastrophic global changes. The report projects that unless urgent action is taken global emissions in 2030 will be 25-90% higher than today, making it all but certain that global warming will reach dangerous levels.