Floods, heatwaves and fires in Australia are going to get worse and more frequent according to a landmark report released by the UN’s lead climate body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday night, even as the east coast battled record-breaking floods.
The report — the most comprehensive of its kind since 2014 — showed our minor efforts to adapt had not been not enough. Without committing to serious emissions reduction targets and stop funding coal, we could expect a fourfold increase on annual heatwave frequency and deaths, a loss of land and ocean biodiversity, and no more great Barrier Reef or snowfields.
