Q&A: Has the IPCC’s bleak warning of climate breakdown been heard?

Report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said half of the world's people are highly vulnerable'

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the dangerous impacts of climate breakdown are already being felt and are accelerating rapidly. Has that message been heard?

The second of four parts of the IPCC's sixth assessment report, the latest comprehensive review of our knowledge of the climate crisis, was termed by some scientists the bleakest warning yet". Half of the world's people are highly vulnerable" to serious impacts from the climate crisis, a billion people in coastal areas face inundation, mass die-offs of species including trees and coral have already begun, and close to a tenth of the world's farmland is set to become unsuitable for agriculture.