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Have we run out of time to tackle climate change? | Corinne Le Quéré
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7:10Now PlayingIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s last report published on Monday warned that greenhouse gas emissions need to peak by 2025 to avoid catastrophic environmental consequences.
Royal Society research professor of climate change science Corinne Le Quéré said: "That's absolutely catastrophic.
"Climate change, the climate will continue to warm until the emissions are down to net zero. The more we warm, the worse the impacts.
"Here we're talking about repeated heat waves, extreme temperatures, affecting the production of food around the world, big changes in the water cycle, heavy precipitation, increased risks of flooding and extreme storms like hurricanes, for example."
Asked whether the world could still act, she said: "We need to tackle things that we haven't really done seriously in the past, like renovating homes for energy efficiency, putting heat pumps in houses, looking at our diets, and planting trees in such a larger scale.
"And these things, there are no technological obstacle here. There's even, the costs are affordable now."
She added: "What the UK can do is set an example, push forwards with new technology so that the price, the costs go down, and these technologies become available for a much broader range of countries.
"So the efforts that are made in the UK are really helping in fostering this global dynamics that we need to have now."
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