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'Grave and mounting threat': IPCC again raises alarm that climate impacts are proving worse than feared

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The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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'The next decade will determine our future': A business guide to IPCC's atlas of climate impacts and resilience

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Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise. Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.