UN Report Warns about the Negative Effects of Climate Change

Scientists warn of serious threats looming over oceans, polar regions and highlands.

The world overlooks Monte Carlo, where the 50th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was held. Tomorrow (September 25th), the long-awaited UN report will be presented there, showing the risks facing humans and nature as a result of the dramatically changing state of the oceans, polar regions and glaciers.

Developed by over 100 experts from 30 countries, the Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, entitled The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate aims to direct governments to more active climate action almost four years after the Paris Agreement. The team examined the effects of the climate crisis on the ocean, coastal, polar and mountain ecosystems, as well as on local communities that depend on their resources. The document is also expected to alarm the growing threats to nature and humanity based on the already observed extreme climate change. It will reveal the latest scientific explanations for the close relationship between climate, humans, oceans, poles and glaciers in a warming world.

"This report should erase any doubts about the peril that climate change poses for the health of the ocean and as a consequence for human wellbeing…We expect this report will mark the moment when there can no longer be talk of sustainable development without the massive scaling-up of the restoration of the ocean's own natural defences against the ravages of climate change.", John Tanzer, WWF International's oceans lead, said.

The report, which is the main compass of policy makers on human impact on climate, will highlight the critical need for urgent action and offer an ever-narrower range of...