New IPCC report contains 'no real surprises - we are in an emergency', says climate activist Thunberg
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New IPCC report contains 'no real surprises - we are in an emergency', says climate activist Thunberg
- Title: New IPCC report contains 'no real surprises - we are in an emergency', says climate activist Thunberg
- Date: 9th August 2021
- Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (MARCH 6, 2020) (REUTERS) ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, GRETA THUNBERG, HOLDING SIGN READING (Swedish): "School strike for the climate" THUNBERG CHANTING WITH PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF THUNBERG LEADING MARCH
- Embargoed: 23rd August 2021 10:21
- Keywords: Thunberg climate change emissions global warming ipcc report
- Location: INTERNET / BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- City: INTERNET / BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
- Country: Various
- Topics: Climate Change,Climate Policy and Regulation,Environment,General News
- Reuters ID: LVA002EPK6FR9
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Environmental activist Greta Thunberg tweeted that a new report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday (August 9) contained "no real surprises - we are in an emergency".
Thunberg also tweeted that the worst of the consequences could still be avoided but not without "treating the crisis like a crisis".
The 17-year-old Swedish activist emerged as the face of a growing, youth-led climate movement after a solitary vigil she began holding outside the Swedish parliament in 2018.
The U.N. climate panel sounded a dire warning in their report, saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming - and that humans are "unequivocally" to blame.
Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are already high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries, scientists warn in a report from the IPCC.
That's on top of the deadly heat waves, powerful hurricanes and other weather extremes that are happening now and are likely to become more severe.
The IPCC report comes just three months before a major U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, where nations will be under pressure to pledge ambitious climate action and substantial financing.
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