The IPCC’s latest report examines the impacts of the climate emergency on nature and people around the world.
Highlights
- The world faces unavoidable climate hazards in the next two decades with global heating of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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- ’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, approved by 195 member states, makes clear that minor, reactive or incremental changes are no longer sufficient to tackle the climate emergency.
- The analysis provides world leaders with a gold standard summation of modern climate science at a time when there are fears Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could distract policymakers from taking coordinated action.
- “This report is a dire warning about the consequences of inaction,” Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said in a statement.
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