Yet the reality is, few countries are on track to meet their existing goals to address climate change, let alone seem willing to pick up the pace to save the planet. There is still time to avoid catastrophe, the experts said, but the window for action is closing quickly. The likely result: ever-worsening weather disasters and related events-famine, extinction of some plant and wildlife species and the spread of infectious diseases-that could kill millions by the end of the century. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said. Unless countries take immediate, drastic action to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, global warming will reach catastrophic levels by the early 2030s, the widely circulated report from the U.N. The latest in a series of dire warnings about the dangers of climate change came this March when a prominent United Nations panel of experts flagged that the world is likely to pass a dangerous temperature threshold within the next 10 years. World Climate Change Carbon dioxide Fossil fuels Renewable energy
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