from an increase in heavy rains and hurricanes these weather patterns combined with rising sea levels could lead to more frequent and severe flooding the scientists on the un s panel say it s the final call governments everyone must act the message is over to governments at the stage we ve told you what the scientific facts the evidence the course it is up to the governments know to decide what to do with it. avoiding scenes like this will be hugely expensive so the scientists but it has to be done a list of all possible if the world acts now. joining me now is a funny idea and she s the head of the environment desk welcome so on into what is different and so significant about this latest report. well with the parasite dream and countries around the world agreed to limit the temperature increase to two degrees or preferably one point five degrees of warming and it turns out that there
struggling to muster up the political will for a timely exit from coal the absolute dirtiest fossil fuel and what the protesters are protesting was the cutting down of the forest for a gigantic coal mine one of the largest in europe so germany has given up not only . as is continuing to mine coal it s given up on its self-imposed goal of reducing emissions forty percent by two thousand and twenty which is not happening either so internationally many see germany now as it really having back slid on climate and energy issues so hadn t had to environment desk thank you very much for that. if we re not being the operative at some other stories making news around the turkey has demanded to search the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul for a dissident sound the germans according to local t.v. reports jamal disappeared last week after a visit to his country s consulate turkish authorities believe he was killed while inside the building. around one hundred twenty refugees have arrived in malt
about this is the tip of the iceberg of this icebergs micro plastic contamination appears to be widespread but what effect it might have in the long term is not clear it s most likely liable to do far more harm than good. so why is this microcosmic coming from the sea get into the water from the plastic bottle or is it already in the water before it gets bottled that s something we asked song i.d.m. from environment desk and this was her explanation. well that s not clear and it can t be ruled out that the plastics in these bottled waters are coming from the bottles themselves although it was also found in glass bottles it might actually be from the lid as well which often contains plastics but really plastic is everywhere from the most remote reaches of the ocean to the depths of the antarctic and plastic surgery even in tap water so you can imagine if it s there it s also in a lot of other things that we consume there deliberately added into some of our