Steam rises from chimneys of a heating power plant in Moscow, Russia. February 08, 2020
The changing climate of the planet and the growth in population and riches are both driven by the combustion of billions of tonnes of fossil fuel to produce industrial power, electricity, transport and computation. What’s at stake is a world on a course to warm by more than 3 degrees this century—a disastrous scenario.A first-of-its-kind biodiversity report by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) declared that 75% of Earth’s land surface and 66% of marine environments have been significantly altered and that over 85% of wetland area has been lost