“Today’s report makes for sobering reading, and it is clear that the next decade is going to be pivotal to securing the future of our planet,” Johnson said in a statement. We can still avoid the worst consequences, but not if we continue like today, and not without treating the crisis like a crisis.”īritish PM Boris Johnson said the report should serve as “a wake-up call” for world leaders as they prepare to gather in Scotland later this year for the next summit on the climate crisis. “It is up to us to be brave and take decisions based on the scientific evidence provided in these reports. “It doesn’t tell us what to do,” she noted of the report, which synthesises reams of climate studies conducted in recent years. It’s a solid (but cautious) summary of the current best available science. It confirms what we already know from thousands previous studies and reports – that we are in an emergency. The new IPCC report contains no real surprises. “It’s a solid summary of the current best available science. “It confirms what we already know from thousands of previous studies and reports – we are in an emergency,” Thunberg said. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said the long-awaited report contained “no real surprises”. “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy our planet.” Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible. “The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk. “Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a ‘code red’ for humanity,” Guterres said. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded on Monday that drastic cuts to emissions are needed in order to hold the global temperature to under the 1.5C (2.7F) limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. A UN climate report that predicts quicker global warming than anticipated just three years ago “must sound a death knell” for coal, oil and gas and is “code red” for humanity, according to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.