Key UN climate science talks open amid floods, fires
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26/07/2021 - 06:38
Experts say the IPCC climate science report is "going to be a wake-up call" Robyn Beck AFP/File
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Paris (AFP)
Nearly 200 nations start online negotiations Monday to validate a UN science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale.
Record-smashing heatwaves, floods and drought across three continents in recent weeks, all amplified by global warming, make the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment more than timely.
"It's going to be a wake-up call, there's no doubt about that," said Richard Black, founder and senior associate of the London-based Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.