News / Too late to avert climate change, says IPCC – and switch to LNG may be costly

In its latest report on global warming, released today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted mankind’s role in the changing climate, with average global temperatures in 2011-2020 at 1.1˚C higher than levels in 1850-1900.

Climate science has improved and the strength of the evidence requiring rapid decarbonisation has become increasingly difficult to resist, with shipping and aviation in the forefront of the debate around alternative fuels.

The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report reinforces many details already well known of the ...