For people, time is running out to make the society-wide transformations needed, the report authors warn.
Change impacting world faster than anticipated – report‘Brief and rapidly closing window’ for action
The 3,675-page report, the latest in a series by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , details the global consensus on climate science. This report, however, focuses on how nature and societies are being affected and what they can do to adapt. “Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a frogmarch to destruction,” Guterres said in a video address Monday. “The facts are undeniable. This abdication of leadership is criminal.”
U.S. and European investment firms said the report was a wake up call to the huge risks climate change presents to the financial system and that most companies are not doing enough to adapt.In some cases, the report acknowledges, the costs of adapting will be too high.The report’s release three months after global leaders met at a climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, highlighted the urgency of efforts to contain global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial temperatures.