The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, released in Berlin, Germany, states that global greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise at an accelerated pace and concludes that urgent action is needed to limit the increase in global mean temperature to two degrees Celsius and that action now and will be far less costly than postponing action for the future.

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