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  FACEBOOK   TWITTER   LINKEDIN   EMAIL Roxy Koll The writer is a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology and contributor to IPCC reports Every seven years or so, a report is released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on how human-induced climate change is gathering pace and as a result, how extreme weather events have reached our doorsteps. So, what is new in the sixth assessment report of IPCC released yesterday? The key takeaway from this report is that the mitigation strategies submitted by nations through the Paris Agreement are insufficient to keep the global temperature increase within the 1.5°C or even 2°C limits. It is also important to note that globally, we have failed to even reach near the committed curbs on emissions. Deluge: Indian Ocean is warming at the fastest rate This points to the chilling fact that we are going to face way more challenging climate extremes in the near future. The IPCC report tells us that some of the