SCIENCE

Key takeaways from UN's climate report

By Sanjana Shankar

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Warning

The UN has released a major climate change report which warns that the world will cross a critical limit for global warming within the next decade.

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IPCC

The current report has been prepared by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and is based on six previous reports issued since 2018.

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Report

The report highlights that it is less likely to maintain warming rates below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The world has already warmed by 1.1 degrees Celsius.

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Impact

The report points out that with warming rates between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, Greenland and West Antarctic ice cover will be lost "almost completely and irreversibly."

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COP28

The current IPCC report will be taken up again at the COP28 or the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which will occur this December in Dubai.

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