The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science body has today released the third part of its sixth assessment report, spelling out how to cut emissions by switching to increasingly cheap renewables and fuels such as hydrogen, as well as energy efficiency, capturing carbon and planting trees.
The first "code red" part of the report, released in August 2021, was considered essential in sounding the "death knell" for fossil fuels. The second part, released in February this year and which followed the intense climate deliberations at COP26, was billed as "an atlas of human suffering".
Now the third and final part of the IPCC's report starkly positions humankind as being "at a crossroads". Meeting goals agreed by countries to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C or below 2°C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change requires rapid, deep and immediate greenhouse gas emissions cuts in all areas, it says....