Climate: "We need rapid and very large-scale reductions in greenhouse gases"

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Less than three months before the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the shocking observation of the UN climate experts (IPCC), published on August 9, 2021, sounds like a commotion.

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By: Florent Guignard

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The catastrophe is here.

This is the observation shared after the publication on Monday morning August 9 of the first part of the new IPCC report written by international climate experts.

According to this report, global warming is accelerating, 10 years earlier than expected.

Explanations from Jean-Baptiste Sallée, CNRS researcher, climatologist and oceanographer at the Oceanography and Climate Laboratory at Sorbonne University.

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