Rising water levels, melting permafrost, warming oceans: the IPCC's new special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate, published on Wednesday 25 September, shows that the oceans are about to become a huge threat to humanity unless greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced. This is reason enough for the EU to act more decisively against climate change, said the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament along with a group of NGOs.
“The dramatic melting of ice and rising...