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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

An all-you-need-to-know guide to the IPCC's must-read scientific dossier on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing the global economy. For 30 years, the science underpinning climate change, and humanity's role in driving it, has never been in much doubt. Warming is likely to reach 1.5C within next 20 years.

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Scientists Have Now Linked Worsening Western Wildfires to Top Polluters

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The findings offer new insight into corporate actors’ responsibility for the climate impact of worsening wildfires and strengthen the rapidly growing scientific field known as attribution science , which quantifies the influence of climate change on extreme weather events and connects pollution sources to observed climate impacts.

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'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

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Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sea levels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.

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Climate Litigation Is Increasing as Government Action Falters

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In 2015, the Hague District Court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling — subsequently upheld on appeal — in a climate lawsuit brought by Urgenda and Dutch citizens against the national government. It was the first in the world to establish that their government has a legal duty to protect its citizens from dangerous climate change.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

Today the world's leading climate scientists delivered the clearest picture yet of the scale of the climate crisis that is already unfolding, as well as the likely impacts of further temperature rises over the course of century. That is why this year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is so important.