UN report warns of catastrophic consequences without urgent action on climate change.
A new UN-backed report warns that the world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating, with international climate goals set to slip out of reach unless immediate and radical action is taken. The report draws on the findings of hundreds of scientists to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the climate crisis is unfolding. The biggest threat to climate change action is the world’s continued addiction to burning fossil fuels, which still make up more than 80% of the world’s energy and 75% of human-caused planet-heating pollution. To limit warming to 1.5 degrees, global levels of planet-heating pollution must fall by 60% by 2035 compared with 2019, according to the report.
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