Energy & Science
Five Key Takeaways From the Latest IPCC Report on Climate Change
What you need to know from the UN-backed group’s first major assessment since 2013.
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Today, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its latest comprehensive report on the state of global climate science—just the sixth in the body’s more than 30-year history.
The report’s 200-plus authors distilled 14,000 individual studies to produce today’s release. Even the IPCC’s so-called “summary for policymakers,” a distillation of the report’s key findings approved by the delegations of 195 nations, clocks in at 42 pages.