Humanity will experience more extreme weather in the coming years and their damaging impact on the climate is a "statement of fact", say UN scientists in a landmark study.
The report also says that ongoing emissions of warming gases could also see a key temperature limit broken in just over a decade.
The alarming report by a UN scientific panel, released on Monday, called changes to the climate “unprecedented”, and blames humans. It has laid out drastic cut for emissions in order to hold the global temperature to under the limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
“The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years,” said the report issued by the Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The report was compiled by 234 experts from 66 countries and is the most comprehensive to be released by the UN panel since 2013.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the IPCC’s assessment “code red for humanity”.
“This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet,” he said in a statement. “Countries should also end all new fossil fuel exploration and production and shift fossil fuel subsidies into renewable energy.”
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