MANILA, Philippines — Devastating impacts of a warming planet laid out in a leaked draft report by a United Nations body reinforce the call for urgent plans and actions from national and world leaders, Filipino climate activists said. The draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects how species extinction, ecosystem collapse, more widespread disease, unlivable heat, rising seas, and other crushing impacts of climate change are accelerating. Related Stories Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared — draft UN report“This is not a world we want to inherit. The climate crisis is exacerbating the Philippines' exposure to more frequent and extreme weather changes, rising temperatures, heavier rainfall, and sea level rise. “What we’re experiencing now with the climate crisis is here to stay.

Source: Philippine Star June 29, 2021 04:28 UTC