Major UN climate change report warns world on 'thin ice' as it's now or never for drastic action

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Humanity is on “thin ice” - and it’s now or never to take drastic action to avert climate disaster, a landmark UN report has warned.The five-year study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the body of the world’s leading 200 climate scientists - said choices made this decade would have impacts “for thousands of years”.They are calling for the world to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2035 - by making rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel use and pollution.IPCC scientists insisted the “window is closing” for climate action with the planet teetering on the edge of a string of “tipping points” which would make catastrophic global warming irreversible.And responding to the report, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday: "Humanity is on thin ice - and that ice is melting fast.

Our world needs climate action on all fronts - everything, everywhere, all at once."Guterres - who has spoken out in increasingly stark terms about the climate threat in recent years - pleaded for all rich countries to phase out coal by 2030, and all poorer nations by 2040.And he said the developed world should be using entirely low-carbon and renewable electricity generation by 2035The IPCC report - the final “synthesis” study in a series of papers since 2018, bringing together all major climate research of recent years - warned global warming is a “threat to human wellbeing and planetary health”.Authors said it was likely the world would breach a target to limit planetary warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, perhaps as soon as this decade - with the globe having already heated to 1.1C.The report warned that, beyond that temperature, the risk of "tipping points" like species extinction -