India, Dec. 9 -- The United Nations Environment Programme's Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) has warned that the earth's climate has entered uncharted territory while stating that several tipping points could occur in the next few years to decades.

These tipping points include shifts in intensity and timing of monsoons, loss of Arctic sea ice which is likely to alter the jet stream, change the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events; abrupt thaw of permafrost likely to result in a substantial release of methane within a few years; the coral die-off is already underway and a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which could lead to rapid shifts in the climate in Europe and Africa.

The GEO7 release...