UN Climate Draft Allows World To 'Face Reality': Activist Greta Thunberg

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change draft projects how species extinction, spreading disease, fatal heat waves, ecosystem collapse, rising seas and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating.

A draft UN report on a warming planet unveiled by AFP will allow the world to "face the reality" of climate change, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Wednesday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change draft projects how species extinction, spreading disease, fatal heat waves, ecosystem collapse, rising seas and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating. "It confirms what we already knew, that this situation is very dire and that we need to act right now," Thunberg told AFP. But she added that she found it hopeful that "many people are becoming more and more ready to tell it like it is".