Without immediate and deep cuts in emissions from all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels is out of reach, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) insisted on Monday 4 April, when it published its new report.
This is the third and final part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report on the state of scientific knowledge on climate change.
The first, published last August, dealt with the physical understanding of the climate system and...