World’s top climate scientists issue ‘survival guide for humanity,’ call for major course correction

KEY POINTS

-The latest report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides world leaders with a gold-standard summation of modern climate science.

-It is the first comprehensive report from the U.N. climate panel since the 2015 Paris Agreement.

-“Today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday