'Climate change is here, now, but we are also here, now, and if we don't act who will?' 'We can't undo the mistakes of the past' but this 'generation of conscious citizens can make things right,' says Inger Andersen of the UN Environment Programme.
Lead author Dr Tamsin Edwards told Sky News:"That is something people may see as optimistic, but we're not there, and we are on higher emissions pathways at the moment that would lead to much greater climate change."
This"major new development" is thanks to advances in attribution science - which assesses human influence on weather - said a report author Dr Friederike Otto, associate climate professor at Oxford University.Sky burns orange as Greek fires force evacuations The IPCC investigated five future scenarios based on how much carbon dioxide the world continues to emit and what we do to compensate.
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