Leading UN report urges immediate action to mitigate climate change

The new report, “Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the second in a four-part assessment of climate change. It relies on about 12,000 papers and is written by over 300 scientists, who voted on the final version on 30 March 2014 in Japan.