The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is set to release its third and final report on the climate emergency today — a day later than planned, after major fossil fuel producers fought to water down scientists’ findings. The report is expected to call on countries to rapidly shift away from coal, oil and gas over the next eight years in order to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Countries including Saudi Arabia fought to include a role for fossil fuels in the document, while others called on the U.N. to promote unproven technological solutions like machines that capture carbon dioxide directly from the air.
Meanwhile, hundreds of activists with the group Extinction Rebellion have blocked oil terminals across the United Kingdom in nonviolent protests demanding action on the climate crisis.