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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2018/oct/08/ipcc-climate-change-report-urgent-action-fossil-fuels-liveIPCC climate change report calls for urgent
action to phase out fossil fuels – as it happenedUN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
says coal-fired electricity must end by 2050 if we
are to limit global warming rises to 1.5CSummary:
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only 12 years to be kept
to a maximum of 1.5C and avoid catastrophic
environmental breakdown.
The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) said urgent and
unprecedented changes are needed to
reach the target, which is affordable and feasible
although it lies at the most ambitious end of the
Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C.
Debra Roberts, a co-chair of the IPCC working group, said: “It’s a line in the sand
and what it says to our species is that this
is the moment and we must act now. This is the
largest clarion bell from the science community
and I hope it mobilises people and dents the mood of complacency.”
Political leaders have been urged to act on the report.
Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who
led the historic Paris agreement of 2015, said: “There is
nothing opaque about this new data. The illustrations
of mounting impacts, the fast-approaching and irreversible
tipping points are visceral versions of a future that no
policy-maker could wish to usher in or be responsible for.”
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