Evidence of climate change 'unequivocal': UN report

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Climate change could have far-reaching and "irreversible" consequences if more action is not taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a UN scientific panel warned in a report released Saturday.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its report that evidence of climate change is "unequivocal."
It said the trend could lead to "abrupt" changes to the planet, cause human suffering and threaten some species with extinction.
"Slowing and reversing these threats is the defining challenge of our age,'' UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as he unveiled the report in Valencia, Spain.
The 23-page summary said climate systems unquestionably have already begun to change and that human activities since the start of the industrial age have contributed to the warming.
The panel, which won a Nobel peace prize earlier this year, said recent research has heightened concerns that the poor and the elderly would suffer most from climate change.
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