“Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways”, a major UN scientific report has said.
Whereas in Britain we’ve experienced a cooler and wetter August than normal, there can be no room for complacency. Nobody will be isolated from the scale of the changes just over the horizon. What we’ve seen in the last few weeks elsewhere in the world is just a curtain raiser for catastrophes to come unless we act now to get to net zero CO2 emissions and limit global average temperature rise to 1.5C as agreed in Paris 2016.