‘Code red’: the world’s climate wake-up call

A report by the IPCC – the world’s leading authority on climate science – has warned that climate change will probably cause global temperatures to rise by more than 1.5C, bringing widespread extreme weather. It also outlines how human activity is already changing the Earth’s climate in ‘unprecedented’ ways, with some of the changes now ‘irreversible’. Guardian Australia climate and environment editor Adam Morton breaks down the devastating global impacts outlined in this report, what lies ahead for Australia and the Pacific – and why we can still have hope