France, March 20 -- Despite the scale and urgency of the climate crisis, it's not too late to secure a "liveable and sustainable future for all" if immediate action is taken to slash greenhouse gas emissions and ensure climate justice for vulnerable people, a major UN climate report published Monday says.

More than 200 countries and hundreds of the world's leading scientists signed off on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) AR6 synthesis report - a comprehensive breakdown of global climate knowledge - after a week of deliberations in the Swiss town of Interlaken.

Over the past year many scientists have warned the world will inevitably miss the key Paris Agreementtarget of capping warming at 1.5 degrees because existing ...