IPCC report appeals to all to salvage 1.5C goal

A photograph taken on Aug 17, 2021 shows a polar bear on ice floes in the British Channel in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. AFP

Climate scientists on March 20 appealed directly to everyone on the planet to seize a dwindling chance to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius or risk harming people living today and their descendants for thousands of years.

With graphics showing individuals -- from babies to pensioners -- set to suffer ever more from rising heat, the report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives a more personal twist to findings about looming threats than its past studies directed at governments.