UN Climate Report says human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways

There is no doubt that human activities are responsible for climate change.

That’s the finding of a new study by the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change.

It is the most up to date assessment of how global warming will change the world in the coming decades.

Environmental experts have called it a massive wake up call to governments to cut emissions.

234 authors from 66 countries worked on the landmark assessment.

The report says global average temperature rise could reach or exceed 1.5 degrees celcius in the next 20 years – that is 10 years sooner than expected.

That temperature rise will breach the ambition of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and bring widespread devastation and unprecedented extreme weather – more droughts, flooding, heatwaves and so forth.

This all comes less than 3 months before the COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in Scotland which are vital UN talks that will determine the future course of efforts to tackle climate change.