![]() ![]() It concludes that global warming is “unequivocal”, that humanity’s role in causing it is “clear” and that many effects will last for hundreds to thousands of years even if the planet’s rising temperature is halted. The new overarching IPCC report builds on previous reports on the science, impacts and solutions for climate change. “But, thanks to the IPCC, no one will ever be able to say they weren’t warned.” We can’t prevent a large scale disaster if we don’t heed this kind of hard science.”īill McKibben, a high-profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: “For scientists, conservative by nature, to use ‘serious, pervasive, and irreversible’ to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.” Breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry would not be easy, McKibben said. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said: “This is another canary in the coal mine. It sends a clear message: we must act on climate change now. “The reality of climate change is undeniable, and cannot be simply wished away by politicians who lack the courage to confront the scientific evidence,” he said, adding that the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people were at risk.Įd Davey, the UK energy and climate change secretary, said: “This is the most comprehensive and robust assessment ever produced. Lord Nicholas Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics and the author of an influential earlier study, said the new IPCC report was the “ most important assessment of climate change ever prepared” and that it made plain that “further delays in tackling climate change would be dangerous and profoundly irrational”. “The solutions are many and allow for continued economic and human development. “We have the means to limit climate change,” said Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the IPCC. ![]() In September, 120 national leaders met at the UN in New York to address climate change, while hundreds of thousands of marchers around the world demanded action. The report comes at a critical time for international action on climate change, with the deadline for a global deal just over a year away. The report also makes clear that carbon emissions, mainly from burning coal, oil and gas, are currently rising to record levels, not falling. ![]() It is the first IPCC report since 2007 to bring together all aspects of tackling climate change and for the first time states: that it is economically affordable that carbon emissions will ultimately have to fall to zero and that global poverty can only be reduced by halting global warming. The report, released in Copenhagen on Sunday by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is the work of thousands of scientists and was agreed after negotiations by the world’s governments. Time is not on our side.” He said that quick, decisive action would build a better and sustainable future, while inaction would be costly.īan added a message to investors, such as pension fund managers: “Please reduce your investments in the coal- and fossil fuel-based economy and to renewable energy.” There is no ambiguity in the message,” said the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, attending what he described as the “historic” report launch. ![]()
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