For changes in Extreme Weather but there is no going back. Scientists are describing it as a Wake Up Call for World Leaders, wholl be heading to a Key Climate Summit In Glasgow in november. Also in the programme, well be looking at wildfires in greece. Firefighters have been brought in across europe to put out the blazes on evia island, amid apocolyptic scenes. And well bring you the incredible story of a tiny baby, who weighed the same as an apple when she was born. Well shes finally home after 13 months in hospital. Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways, according to a Landmark United Nations report on Climate Change which was released today. The Ipcc Report is the most up to Date Assessment of how global warming will change the world in the coming decades. The head of the un, antonio guterres, says the report should act as a Code Red for humanity. So lets look at some of the reports key points his graph shows the world has been gett
Company greensill. Celebrations as scotland lifts almost all its remaining coronavirus restrictions. And a heroes welcome for the last of the Team Gb athletes to return home from success in tokyo. Hello and welcome. We are changing the earths climate in unprecedented and irreversible ways, risking widespread devastation, heat waves, floods and droughts. The head of the un has called it a Code Red for humanity. It warns that temperatures are on course to rise by more than 1. 5 Degrees Celsius above Pre Industrial Levels within the next two decades. Sea levels have risen three times more quickly compared to the previous century. But in a small message of hope, the report concludes its not too late to stop the worst effects of climate Change Provided Governments Around The World make deep and immediate cuts in carbon emissions. Heres our Science Editor David shukman. As the world gets hotter, its becoming more threatening. The terrifying scenes of Mass Escape from greek islands, burning a
now, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. today i ve come to kew gardens in south west london. this place is a botanical treasure trove, the largest single collection of living plants in the world, some of the specimens here collected by charles darwin himself. my guest is kew s director, richard deverell, who has big ambitions to put this place at the heart of the battle to avert global environmental catastrophe. butjust how realistic is that? richard deverell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let me begin by asking you about your vision for this remarkable place, kew. do you see it as an institution devoted to science and research? or, fundamentally, is it one of the world s great visitor attractions? kew is a bit of both. i think at the heart of kew has always been science, our scientists and our scientific collections. but we also have this extraordinary living collection in the gardens just here. we have nearly 18,000 different species at kew.
at the heart of the battle to avert global environmental catastrophe. butjust how realistic is that? richard deverell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let me begin by asking you about your vision for this remarkable place, kew. do you see it as an institution devoted to science and research? or, fundamentally, is it one of the world s great visitor attractions? kew is a bit of both. i think at the heart of kew has always been science, our scientists and our scientific collections. but we also have this extraordinary living collection in the gardens just here. we have nearly 18,000 different species at kew. and that, of course, is at the heart of the visitor attraction, along with the beautiful buildings. it s a world heritage site. my vision for kew is that, fundamentally, we try and align everything we re doing to address these enormous global challenges we face as humanity, the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis. and kew has to make a meaningful contribution to thos
and now it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur, and today i ve come to kew gardens in south west london. this place is a botanical treasure trove, the largest single collection of living plants in the world, some of the specimens here collected by charles darwin himself. my guest is kew s director, richard deverell, who has big ambitions to put this place at the heart of the battle to avert global environmental catastrophe. butjust how realistic is that? richard deverell, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let me begin by asking you about your vision for this remarkable place, kew. do you see it as an institution devoted to science and research? or, fundamentally, is it one of the world s great visitor attractions? kew is a bit of both. i think at the heart of kew has always been science, our scientists and our scientific collections. but we also have this extraordinary living collection in the gardens just here. we have nearly 18,000 different species a