![]() The climate time-bomb is ticking,” said United Nations secretary-general António Guterres in a video message played at a press conference about the report’s release. “But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb. “The rate of temperature rise in the last half century is the highest in 2,000 years. Concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least two million years. The report calls for countries to ramp up their pledges to lower greenhouse gas emissions enough to reduce global emissions by 60 percent by 2035. ![]() The world has just a few years to drastically rein in carbon emissions enough to avoid the worst impacts of warming, according to the concluding piece of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was released on Monday. We are at a critical juncture in the fight to tackle the climate emergency.
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