Irish Examiner view: Climate urgency being overshadowed by war

New report is an “atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership"

John Kerry, the US special presidential envoy for climate, said the report “paints a dire picture of the impacts already occurring because of a warmer world and the terrible risks to our planet if we continue to ignore science".

The timing of the report this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is particularly unfortunate given that the warnings contained within may get buried because of what is happening in Ukraine right now.

Describing the report as an “atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres underlined the importance of swift action.