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Scientists have issued a “final warning” as humanity is on thin ice to tackle the climate crisis.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, issued its final report and described “increasingly irreversible losses” due to extreme weather that has resulted in increased deaths, droughts, famines and ecosystems.
While the report made for sober reading, scientists still say there is a chance of limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The 1.5C is the threshold before the damage to the climate will rapidly become irreversible.
Currently, temperatures are now about 1.1C above pre-industrial levels, the IPCC found.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
Mr Guterres called for rich countries to accelerate their target for achieving net zero emissions to as early as 2040, and for developing nations to aim for 2050.
