Greenpeace demands governments to take action on climate change

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today approved and released the first of a series of four reports that will make up the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). It warns of an alarming escalation of impacts, but also shows that preventing climate chaos is still possible.

The report highlights accelerating impacts of climate change that make a truly disturbing reading. In the past decade, from 2002-2011, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a rate six times faster, on average, than the decade before. Antarctic melting was five times faster. Since 1993 sea-levels have risen twice as fast as in the past century on average while the Arctic sea-ice has diminished significantly faster than projected.

Jai Krishna, climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace India said: "In the Arctic and around the world we are reaching a series of tipping points. From the Keystone pipeline in the United States to Gezi Park in Turkey and to oil rigs in the melting ice, citizens are fighting the tired mistakes of the 20th century and demanding a new approach. The age of fossil fuels is coming to an end. The only question is how fast we leave it behind."