Scientists have told us how to solve the climate crisis — will the world listen? 

The latest IPCC report makes bleak reading but there is hope in its achievement of persuading the world's governments to agree to a common guide to solving the climate emergency – we, their citizens, can now hold them to account

Justice and Peace artist Greg Mitchell completes his climate-crisis themed mural that depicts the Earth on fire and reads ' While you were talking', on the side of St John's Church on Princes Street, Edinburgh, to coincide with the Cop26 in Glasgow last October.

Amid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement. 

They have stood firm and persuaded the world’s governments to agree to a common guide to solving the climate emergency. Despite the despair of mounting global problems, the release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows some grounds for hope.