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Inger Andersen of the UN Environment Programme has said the climate crisis poses an 'immediate threat', adding that 'every citizen needs to play their part'. Only drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this decade can prevent global temperatures from rising to disastrous levels, according to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Humans have caused ‘unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’ change to climate, scientists warn
• Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report

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EUAs recovered early losses on Monday morning, despite a general weakness in the energy complex as Russian state producer Gazprom slowly resumed flows from a gas facility damaged by a fire last week.

Prime minister says warning from UN scientists should give world a wake-up call ahead of Cop26 summit

• Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
• IPCC’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell

Boris Johnson has described the latest warnings from UN scientists about the extent of the climate crisis as “sobering reading” that should provide the world with a wake-up call ahead of the Cop26 summit.

With the global climate conference due to open in Glasgow in less than three months, the British prime minister said he hoped the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would highlight the need for action now.

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The secondary market spot price for Australian carbon credits is holding at record levels above A$22 ($16.16) amid persistent, yet modest demand, while more than 70 million units have now been delivered to the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund.

Achieving net zero will require action from everyone – and a renewed emphasis on science and innovation

• Patrick Vallance is the UK government chief scientific adviser

The release today of the first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report makes for stark reading. It reaffirms that anthropogenic climate change is real, present and lasting: it is now unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen through the coming decades.

The report also dispels any notion that the effects of the climate crisis are abstract or distant. Extreme events are being felt across the world, from wildfires in Australia, Sweden and north-west America to heatwaves in Siberia and Canada and the devastating drought in South Africa. Evidence has grown since the last assessment report that human activity has exacerbated extreme weather events. Without urgent action, such events will continue to get worse. Moreover, sea levels are projected to rise over this century. Rises of as much as 2m cannot be ruled out, leaving low-lying lands and coastal communities extremely vulnerable.

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Zac Goldsmith says COP26 must be a "turning point", despite warnings that costs of tackling climate change will hit poor families.

Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.

Boris Johnson calls for a shift towards clean energy sources after "sobering" report on climate change.

The world faces crossing Paris Agreement warming limits within 20 years even with drastic emissions cuts this decade, the UN-backed IPCC scientific panel said in a landmark report published on Monday.

From food to fashion, green bloggers give their top tips to be more eco-friendly.

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Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth, and every facet of the weather. Here are the key takeaway's from the latest IPCC climate report.

The post This is the most sobering report card yet on climate change and Earth’s future. What you need to know appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The underlying message remains the same. The longer we wait, the more devastating the consequences.

The post Rising seas and melting glaciers: these changes are now irreversible, but we have to act to slow them down appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New Zealand’s climate has been changing in line with global trends over the last century, warming by 1.1℃. But unless we curb emissions fast, we can brace for more extreme downpours and droughts. James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The latest IPCC report makes it clear we can no longer stop the seas from rising, but we can still control how much and how fast sea levels change. Nick Golledge, Professor of Glaciology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia may warm by 4℃ or more this century, the IPCC has found. As these IPCC authors explain, there is no going back from some changes in the climate system. Michael Grose, Climate projections scientist, CSIRO Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Roshanka Ranasinghe, Professor of Climate Change impacts and Coastal Risk Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

IPCC authors go beyond the headlines to explain how 1.5℃ warming is measured – and why there’s still reason to hope, and act, if Earth exceeds that limit. Michael Grose, Climate projections scientist, CSIRO Malte Meinshausen, A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Zebedee Nicholls, PhD Researcher at the Climate & Energy College, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather

• IPCC’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell
• ‘Not too late’: Australian scientists call for urgent action to avoid worst of climate crisis
• Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by humans, says IPCC
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Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”, climate scientists have warned.

Within the next two decades, temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, breaching the ambition of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, and bringing widespread devastation and extreme weather.

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As global temperatures rise, heatwaves, droughts, floods and other impacts will become more widespread, the sixth annual report says

• Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible - IPCC’s starkest warning yet
• IPCC’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell
• Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by humans, says IPCC
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The first major assessment of its kind in seven years from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found the globe’s ocean, lands and air temperatures are rising, and the human influence is “unequivocal”.

But what does the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report say about changes in Australia, and what can we expect for the future?

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states every corner of the planet is already being affected and it could get far worse

• IPCC report’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell
• Humans have caused ‘unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’ change to climate, scientists warn

“​​It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused by human activities and is unequivocally affecting every corner of the planet’s land, air and sea already.

The report, produced by hundreds of the world’s top scientists and signed off by all the world’s governments, concludes that it could get far worse if the slim chance remaining to avert heating above 1.5C is not immediately grasped.

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