Biggest ever climate change study says 'no place in the world is immune'

An IPCC report says that the negative effects of climate change are already being felt by every country across the world.

16:35 31 March 2014

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) has released the most comprehensive study into the effects of climate change and warned that its negative effect can impact food security, water supplies and human health.

Based on the report, Britain is one of the countries that are most at risk. The UK and northern Europe will reportedly suffer from increased coastal and inland flooding, heatwaves, and droughts.

The report states: "In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.”

"Throughout the 21st century, climate-change impacts are projected to slow down economic growth, make poverty more difficult, further erode food security, and prolong existing and create new poverty traps, the latter particularly in urban areas and emerging hot spots of hunger.”

Meanwhile, professor Neil Adger of Exeter University, one of the many lead authors of the report, said that “no place in the world is immune” from the negative effects of climate change.

Professor Corinne Le Quere, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, provided a clearer explanation as to what we can really expect. She said: "The human influence on climate change is clear. The atmosphere and oceans are warming, the snow cover is shrinking, the Arctic sea ice is melting, sea levels are rising, the oceans are acidifying, some extreme weather events are on the rise, ecosystems and natural habitats will be upset.”