Code red for humanity: UN report delivers dire warning on climate change

'CODE RED': IPCC says planet to warm by 1.5 degree Celsius in all growth scenarios over 20 yrs

Extreme climate occurrences in the form of heat waves, droughts, floods and thinning of glaciers are now indisputably linked to human behaviour and not natural causes, says the latest assessment report by global climate scientists, adding that some of these climate changes might be irreversible. The report, “Climate Change 2021”, from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also says the recent climate extremes are unprecedented in thousands of years.

The IPCC, in its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), estimates that under all growth scenarios, the planet’s warming level will touch 1.5 degree Celsius. The report shows that emissions