The UN climate change report detailing the effects of global warming was approved by nearly 200 nations at the end of a sometimes fraught two week meeting.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed that debates had concluded over the report's crucial Summary for Policymakers, a 40-page overview distilling the thousands of pages of scientific research, which has been reviewed line-by-line and will.
Due to global heating, species extinction, ecosystems collapse, mosquito-borne disease, water shortages, and reduced crop yields are already worse.
In the last year, the world has seen unprecedented floods, heatwaves, and wildfires.
The report is expected to warn that all these impacts will accelerate in the coming decades even if the carbon pollution driving climate change is quickly brought to heel.
It will underscore the need for adaptation, a term that refers to preparations for devastating consequences that can no longer be avoided.
In some cases, adapting to hot days and flash flooding has become a matter of life and death.
The Paris deal calls for capping global warming at 2 degrees C and 1.5 degrees C.
A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that global heating is almost certain to pass 1.5 degrees C within a decade.
Earth has warmed 1.1 degrees since the 19th century.
The head of Power Shift Africa said that they cannot escape the climate crisis.
The scale of the suffering we will endure if we don't drastically cut greenhouse gas pollution would be useful for people to understand in the report.
The science behind climate action is clear. It is telling us how bad our situation is. He told Agence France-Presse that what is lacking is action from governments.
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