Act on climate now to ensure future – UN

PARIS: Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them by nearly half, United Nations climate experts said on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), warning that the world faced a last-gasp race to ensure a "livable future."

That daunting task is still — only just — possible, but current policies are leading the planet toward catastrophic temperature rises, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made clear.