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Welcome to the Views Room, a podcast from Reuters' Breaking Views.

This week, we're devoting the entire show to climate change.

And joining me to discuss the issue is Anthony Curry and Ed Crockley. Both of them are editors at the

commentary division of Reuters and write frequently about climate change and the companies that

are affected. Anthony, let me start with you. We've just had a really alarming warning from

the United Nations. Talk us through what they're telling us. Yeah, sure. Thanks, Svaha. So I would start by saying

we've seen plenty of these warnings before what's come out with this report. It's in the intergovernmental

panel on climate change. It's like 260-odd scientists and 66 different countries who've gone through

all of the various reports over the past six, seven years. I think it's eight years since the last

big report came out from on this particular basis. And they've synthesized the daughter and said this is what we think

is happening and they're attaching a degree of probability to various scenarios. And they've come up with,

well, they've posited five scenarios of how much climate change will impact the world over the next

80 years. And they split it up into the first 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years.

And they have five different scenarios within that.

And they're saying that the worst the temperature rise gets, and let's not forget that in Paris in 2015 at the climate change conference,

that the so-called conference of parties or COP conference that they had there, there was a commitment from all participants,

or allegedly all participants, to try and limit the average temperature increase from the

pre-industrial period in the 18th century to 2 degrees Celsius, if not indeed, to 1.5 degrees.

And what they've done is said, look, this is what's going to happen under the various scenarios. At what point will we get above 1.5 degrees? And essentially, what

they're saying is there's a very strong likelihood. It's going to breach 1.5 degrees within 20 years

in all the five scenarios they've got if things aren't done properly, as in we don't mitigate

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