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The planet is facing severe climate change unless emissions are cut substantially and immediately, an international report warned yesterday.
Experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged world leaders to act as the window of opportunity to solve the looming crisis was swiftly closing.
Failing to cut greenhouse gases and phasing out fossil fuel could lead to an increase of over 4?C in temperatures by 2100.
The UN’s climate body chairman Rajendra Pachauri said: “To keep a good chance of staying below 2?C, and at manageable costs, our emissions should drop by 40 per cent to 70 per cent globally between 2010 and 2050.”
“We have that opportunity and the choice is in our hands,” he added.
Changing global temperatures could lead to a considerable rise in sea levels, heatwaves, intense storms, water shortages and species extinctions.
UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon addressed the launch of the report saying: “Science has spoken, there is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side.”
