Prepare for accelerating climate risks, IPCC says

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UN scientists warn climate change is set to cause increasingly dangerous and costly weather disasters

Governments and businesses must prepare for increasingly severe storms, droughts and other extreme weather events intensified by climate change, an international panel of scientists has said. No part...

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