UN set to unveil landmark report as climate impacts multiply

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 09, 2021 1:08 pm

PARIS: As heart-stopping images of fires and floods dominate news cycles worldwide, the UN's climate science panel will unveil on Monday its much-anticipated projections for temperature and sea-level rises less than three months before a crucial climate summit in Scotland.

After two weeks of virtual negotiations, 195 nations approved the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) comprehensive assessment of past and future warming on Friday in the form of a 'summary for policymakers'.

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