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Recommendation 63

63

The volume of greenhouse gas emissions has a significant impact on the capacity of LDCs...

Conclusion
The volume of greenhouse gas emissions has a significant impact on the capacity of LDCs and SIDS to adapt to climate change. On 9 August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Sixth Assessment report, which the UN Secretary General referred to as a “a code red for humanity” with the alarm bells “deafening” and the evidence “irrefutable”.136