Everyone has a role to play in reducing carbon emissions

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UN panel's call to world leaders on climate change. Pic: Getty

You may have missed it, but on Monday last,the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) called on world leaders to ramp up their activities to avoid a climate crisis. Why? On the back of a new report from the UN which finds that emissions of carbon need to be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 in order to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. If there is no action, the panel believes ...