A major UN report on climate change being published later this morning is expected to issue further dire warnings on the state of the planet
It comes against the backdrop of hundreds of wildfires in southern Europe this week, devastating flooding earlier this summer, and record-breaking heatwaves in North America.
The report is expected to contain five scenarios that will project the level of climate change depending on the level of greenhouse gas emissions.The IPCC report is also expected to outline how climate change can be limited to reduce the level of global warming. Based almost entirely on published research, it could forecast, even under optimistic scenarios, -- a temporary "overshoot" of the 1.5 degrees Celsius target of the Paris Agreement, and revise upwards its estimates for long-term sea-level rise.
Belgian climate physicist and former IPCC co-chair Jean-Pascal Ypersele, who was party to the negotiations, said the talks were guided by the underlying science. "This is going to be the starkest warning yet that human behaviour is alarmingly accelerating global warming and this is why COP26 has to be the moment we get this right," COP26 President Alok Sharma said over the weekend.
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