New United Nations Report To Provide Core Climate Warning

A new United Nations report being released on Monday is expected to provide a stark warning on the climate crisis.

The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists is the capstone of a series that summarises the research on global warming.

And it is compiled since the Paris climate accord was agreed upon in 2015.

It was approved by countries at the end of a weeklong meeting of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report in the Swiss town of Interlaken.

This means governments have accepted its findings as authoritative advice on which to base their actions.

At the start of the meeting, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned delegates the planet is “nearing the point of no return” and they risk missing the internationally agreed limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times.

Governments agreed in Paris almost eight years ago to try to limit temperature rise to 1.5C or at least keep it well below 2C (3.6F).

Since then, scientists have increasingly argued any warming beyond the lower threshold would put humanity at risk.