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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

It’s over for fossil fuels: IPCC spells out what’s needed to avert climate disaster

Wind turbines in a rural area of south Wales.
Wind turbines in a rural area of south Wales. Photograph: Wales/Alamy

Thirty months: that is the very short time the world now has for global greenhouse gas emissions to finally start to fall. If not, we will miss the chance to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

The conclusion of the world’s scientists, collated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and approved by all the world’s governments, says this reversal requires “immediate and deep” cuts in emissions everywhere.

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