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The window of opportunity to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change is rapidly closing—and humanity needs to act fast.
That’s the grim warning aired by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which issued its latest report on Monday. The paper found that the impact of climate change is actually increasing more rapidly than previously thought, which led to the authors setting a new target benchmark for emissions to be cut by 60 percent by 2035.
“This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all,” IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said in a statement.
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