Rich nations must step in

IPCC's climate change report calls for mitigation and adaptation

The projections in the second part of the sixth assessment report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), though fundamentally not too different from those in the previous reports, present a far more ominous picture of the impending environmental and socio-economic crisis than visualised earlier. While much of the impact of global warming would be more severe than predicted earlier, some would simply be “unavoidable” and, more so, “irreversible”. The report maintains that the global temperature would rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level (1850-1900), the threshold fixed under the Paris accord on climate change,