UN's IPCC Report On Climate Change

Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,'' IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri told at the launch of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) in Yokohama, Japan

Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organisation, said the report, the most comprehensive to date, said it showed that "now, ignorance is no longer a good excuse" for inaction to tackle the threat.

The wide-ranging report says climate change is now affecting

• Affecting global poverty
• Changing coastlines
• Destroying, and rarely benefiting, food systems
• Causing animal extinctions
• Fuelling riots over food prices
• Damaging worldwide security
• Destroying homes, even in England and Wales
• Causing wildfires, floods, hurricanes, tornados and droughts

In seven years after the first report from the UN, climate change is no longer a looming threat to future generations, the panel of experts said. It is a reality for human beings in 2014.