Some are already experiencing the effects of climate change, which vary by region and are driven by factors such as geography, how that region is governed and its socio-economic status.
“I’ve seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this,” said UN secretary-general António Guterres during a press conference unveiling the report. Advocates hope the latest assessment will finally spur governments to tackle the climate crisis decisively. This is the sixth such assessment from the IPCC in a little over three decades, and the warnings have only become more dire. It will be followed in early April by a third instalment that evaluates humanity’s options for battling climate change, including ways of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Issued last August, the first instalment focused on recent climate science, whereas the latest one looks at the impacts of climate change on people and ecosystems. The report, released on 28 February, is the second instalment of the latest climate assessment from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). IPCC climate report: Earth is warmer than it’s been in 125,000 years “Any further delay in global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal,” says Maarten van Aalst, a climate scientist who heads the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre in Enschede, the Netherlands, and is a co-author of the report.
Many impacts are unavoidable and will hit the world’s most vulnerable populations hardest, it warns - but collective action from governments to both curb greenhouse-gas emissions and prepare communities to live with global warming could yet avert the worst outcomes. The negative impacts of climate change are mounting much faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to the latest report from a United Nations climate panel. Credit: Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Barcroft Media/Getty The climate crisis has already negatively affected places such as Bangladesh, where river-bank erosion has cost people their homes.
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