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What The Latest UN Climate Report Says About Our Future : 1A A big story has been lurking in the background these last few weeks – climate change. Last week the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report: "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability." The report gives example after example of ways climate change is impacting human lives now.

The report is concerning, but it also makes one thing clear: it's not too late.

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What The Latest UN Climate Report Says About Our Future

What The Latest UN Climate Report Says About Our Future

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The logo of the United Nations is seen in the General Assembly hall before heads of state begin to speak at the United Nations headquarters during the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

A big story has been lurking in the background of all the news of the last few weeks – climate change. Last week the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report: "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability."

Here's how UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres put it:

Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change. Nearly half of humanity is living in the danger zone – now.  Many ecosystems are at the point of no return – now. Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world's most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction – now. The facts are undeniable. This abdication of leadership is criminal.

But one thing the report also makes clear? It's not too late.

Lisa Schipper, Kristie Ebi, and Zahra Hirji join us for the conversation.

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