‘Nobody is safe’: UN warns climate crisis poses immediate threat – video

Inger Andersen of the UN Environment Programme has said the climate crisis poses an ‘immediate threat’, adding that ‘every citizen needs to play their part’. Only drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions this decade can prevent global temperatures from rising to disastrous levels, according to the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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