PALMOILMAGAZINE, JAKARTA – In 2023, the global temperature reached its highest recorded levels. Prof. Edvin Aldrian, the Vice Chair of Working Group I at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a professor of Meteorology and Climatology at the National Innovation and Research Agency (BRIN), highlighted that the global temperature increase had surpassed 1.52 degrees Celsius.
This exceeded the threshold set by the Paris Agreement, which aimed to limit the rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, indicating a concerning acceleration of climate change worldwide.
According to the IPCC, projections for temperature increase in 2030 have been revised to show a faster rate than previously predicted. While earlier estimates suggested a significant rise by 2052, the latest findings indicate that this escalation could occur as early as 2042, a decade ahead of schedule. This underscores the urgent need for decisive action to address climate change and its impacts.
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“The earth temperature has been more 1,5 Celsius degree for the past twelve months in 2023. This happened ten years faster than the previous prediction,” Prof. Edvin Aldrian said.
In the context, the 2023 El Nino impacts would be critical. Supari, Coordinator in Climate Variability Analysis, Geophysics, Climatology, Meteorology Agency (GCMA) said that El Nino in 2023 was categorized as moderate one with sea surface temperature anomaly in central Pacific reached 2.0 in December 2023.
There were impacts namely in August to October within low rain in some regions. Even in Nusa Tenggara Barat, there was no rain fall for 222 days.
“Southern Sumatera, Java, Bali, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan, Sulawesi, some of Maluku, and Papua had no rain fall for more than two months. This made food production not maximal in many regions,” Supari said.
The combination between the faster increasing temperature in the globe and extreme El Nino impacts, seriously hit food and environment security in many regions. By realizing these, it needs to immediately adapt and mitigate to minimize the bigger impacts in the future. (T2)
