Morning Mail: climate crisis, vaccine mandates ruled out, a poetic month

Tuesday: A landmark report warns rapid and drastic emission reductions needed to stop man-made climate crisis. Plus: Yassmin Abdel-Magied shares poem for poetry month.

Good morning. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published a landmark report and it's a wake-up call to the world". Drastic action is desperately needed to avoid a global climate catastrophe. We have the details of the report, plus plenty more in today's Morning Mail.

Human activity is changing the Earth's climate in unprecedented" ways, with some of the changes now inevitable and irreversible". The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned in its landmark report released on Monday that only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases in this decade can prevent widespread devastation and extreme weather. Within the next two decades, temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, which would be catastrophic" for Pacific island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level rise.