Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late
The Guardian, International
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday.
The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.”
UN Report: Half of World's Population 'Highly Vulnerable to Climate Change'
C/NET
Without "urgent climate action," about half of the world's population faces an increased risk of death from extreme weather conditions, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report released Monday.
The climate crisis has already taken a severe toll on people's health around the globe, according to the UN and to the World Health Organization.
"In the last decade, deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions,"Aditi Mukherji, a water management researcher and one of the authors of the new IPCC report, said in a statement Monday.