Achieving net zero will require action from everyone – and a renewed emphasis on science and innovation
- Patrick Vallance is the UK government chief scientific adviser
Mon 9 Aug 2021 07.43 EDT
Therelease todayof the first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report makes for stark reading. It reaffirms that anthropogenic climate change is real, present and lasting: it is now unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land to an unprecedented degree, with effects almost certain to worsen through the coming decades.
The report also dispels any notion that the effects of the climate crisis are abstract or distant. Extreme events are being felt across the world, from wildfires in Australia, Sweden and north-west America to heatwaves in Siberia and Canada and the devastating…
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