LONDON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Committee on Climate Change (CCC) welcomes the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the CCC's Chief Executive, Chris Stark, said in a statement released on Monday.
Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, according to the report.
"Already it's clear, however, that the window to keep global temperatures below the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold is narrowing rapidly," Stark said.
"We now look forward to a formal request from UK ministers to begin our assessment of the appropriate statutory framework for climate change in the UK, in light of the UK's obligations under the global Paris Agreement," Stark said.
Ninety-one authors and review editors from 40 countries prepared the IPCC report in response to an invitation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) when it adopted the Paris Agreement in 2015.
"The report shows that we now risk being stuck between a rock and a hard place if we don't take the right courses of action," said Professor Richard Betts, chair in climate impacts at the University of Exeter, in another statement.
"Crucially, the report discusses pathways that aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius without making poor and disadvantaged people worse off," Betts said.
