UN climate report ‘code red for humanity’: Guterres

UN chief says the prediction of quicker onset of global warming tipping point ‘must sound a death knell’ for fossil fuels.

A UN climate report that predicts quicker global warming than anticipated just three years ago “must sound a death knell” for coal, oil and gas and is “code red” for humanity, according to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded on Monday that drastic cuts to emissions are needed in order to hold the global temperature to under the 1.5C (2.7F) limits set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. “Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 Report is a ‘code red’ for humanity,” Guterres said.