India on Friday said that the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 1 has given “may be the last signal” for taking collective global actions against environmental and climate challenges.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a United Nations body that provides scientific information related to climate change.
In its recent report published on August 9 and titled “Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis”, the UN body said that human activities have modified the environment at an “unprecedented” rate.
Scientists in the committee found that over the next 20 years, global temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius on an average. The report said that emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activity were responsible for causing approximately 1.1 degree Celsius of warming of the Earth since 1850-1990.
The assessment gains significance as extreme weather conditions are being reported from…