Two years after the IPCC 1.5C report came out, we’re still not treating climate change as a crisis-Activist

As today 8 October 2020 marks the second anniversary of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C, activists said evidence shows that neither governments nor the financial sector took serious notice or acted accordingly.

The IPCC report outlined how 1.5°C is a red line for our survival and a more stable climate; and how the window for keeping warming below that limit is closing fast, requiring coal, oil and  gas to stay in the ground.

It was the starkest and most compelling yet single piece of research on the climate crisis, and it called for a large scale mobilization of public and private resources, and rapid changes i