Opinion and commentary

The world is “sleepwalking to a climate catastrophe” announced United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres as he introduced a new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This report on solutions follows earlier reports on the science and impacts of the climate crisis. IPCC reports are produced by scientists, but also reviewed and approved by 195 governments, in a painstaking line-by-line process that concluded this week.