A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific body that advises the UN on rising temperatures, has brought forward a report that brings to the fore many effects and impacts of climate change and seems to work as a survival guide in the present times.<br />” <br />” It outlines the significant impacts that climate change is having on the world already and explains that these will get much worse.<br />” <br />” By 2100, extreme coastal flooding that used to happen once-a-century is expected to occur at least annually in half of the world's tidal gauge locations – places where sea level recordings are made. Concentrations of the warming gas carbon-dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are at their highest in 2 million years. The world is now warmer than at any time in the past 125,000 years – and will likely get warmer still over the next decade.<br />” <br />” The synthesis shows that projected emissions of CO2 from existing fossil fuel infrastructure, such as oil wells and gas pipelines, would bust the remaining carbon budget – the amount of CO2 that can still be emitted – for staying under this key temperature threshold.<br />” <br />” The report is otherwise optimistic that dramatic changes can be achieved rapidly, pointing to the massive falls in the price of energy made from solar and wind. It says that changes driven by consumers in terms of diet, food waste and switching to low carbon transport can achieve significant cuts in emissions from many sectors.<br />” <br />”Responding to the report's call for more urgent action, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for countries to bring forward their plans for net zero by a decade. He says the report on climate change is a survival guide for humanity.<br />