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It’s Vanita for Green Margins this week. Usually, you see my name pop up in your inboxes a bit later on Wednesdays, if you’re subscribed to The Ken’s weekly newsletter on tech policy. But this is my first Green Margins piece, so be sure to write in and tell me what you think. 

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report this week. Not that much in there will come as a surprise, but it’s worth repeating anyway. Katherine Hayhoe, chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy, lays out the highlights pretty succinctly in this Twitter thread. 

1. Climate Change has already caused widespread losses in almost every aspect of life on Earth  
2. Every little bit of extra warming matters. The warmer it gets, the more extreme the impacts 
3. These impacts are “serious”, and they affect some absolute essentials for life—food, water, health, land to live…
4. We’ve learnt that we actually face higher risks at lower temperature thresholds
5. And despite all the international agreements, we’re just not cutting our greenhouse emissions by enough

Which basically means:

Getting there is going to require manpower, though.