What the latest IPCC science says about climate change

COP27 delegates will be relying on UN climate science agency studies to make decisions about future energy plans. At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the UN climate science agency to sway decisions about future energy plans and global warming trajectories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces reports roughly every five years that represent a global scientific consensus on climate change, its causes and its impact. Last years report tackled the main drivers of global warming and the core elements of climate science. That was followed by two major reports this year one in February addressing how the world will need to adapt to climate impacts , from rising seas to dwindling wildlife, and another in April on ways for mitigating or reining in climate-warming emissions. Here are some of the key takeaways from those reports: