There is grim reading in the UN’s final warning to world leaders in the last decade we have to act, but there is also a clear set of directions. And hope.
– that the world is warming fast, that climate change is already hurting us, and that it is caused by human activity, almost entirely by burning fossil fuels.
It is the most thorough assessment of climate science the world will see during the last decade in which we still have time to act to arrest the worst impacts of climate change.And this is another key point made by the report and its authors – there is still time to act. “So it’s no longer hypothetical in terms of reducing emissions, it’s actually happening. Eighteen countries can be identified as having substantially and consistently reducing emissions over time, and the aggregate effect globally of emissions policies is a very significant one.”United Nations secretary general António Guterres
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