UN Releases New Report on Climate Change Issue

On Monday, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report noted that if the world warms just another nine-tenths of a degree Celsius from now (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the amount of land burned by wildfires globally will increase by 35%.

During a press conference unveiling the report, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated, "Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership."

The report said that if human-caused global warming isn't limited to just another couple tenths of a degree, the earth, already struck regularly by deadly heat, fires, floods, and drought in future decades, will degrade in 127 ways, with some of them being “potentially irreversible.”

"If the world warms just another nine-tenths of a degree Celsius from now, the amount of land burned by wildfires globally will increase by 35%," the report noted.

"With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change," UN officials said.

"The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," said the major report designed to guide world leaders in their efforts to curb climate change.

Delaying cuts in heat-trapping carbon emissions and waiting on adapting to warming’s impacts, it warned, “will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.”