Observer editorialhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/observer-view-on-ukraine-and-climate-emergency

The crisis must not become a reason to drop our commitment to net zero target

Sun 6 Mar 2022 01.30 EST

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The report last week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the need to adapt to global warming made stark, unpleasant reading. Described by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, as “an atlas of human suffering”, it revealed that billions of people now live in parts of the world where they are highly vulnerable to climate change.

Death tolls from droughts, floods and storms are destined to increase in these regions as extreme heat events and inundations become more frequent. Only urgent action today can halt the worst impacts and prevent a global calamity, argued the IPCC.

In a normal news week, warnings as dire as these would…