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UN - urgent climate action can secure liveable future for all

2023-03-20

UN scientists have confirmed there are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now.

On the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released 20 March, the UN IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said, “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits.“

"This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.”

Read more on the IPCC website here.

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