Boris Johnson accused of climate crisis complacency after IPCC report
by Andrew Sparrow Political correspondent from on (#5N3TF)
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Boris Johnson has been accused of climate crisis complacency after the publication of the warning from UN scientists that rising carbon emissions have already caused irreversible" environmental change.
The prime minister described the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as sobering reading", and said he hoped it would be a wake-up call for the world ahead of the Cop26 global climate conference the UK is hosting in November.
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