Hindu Business: The latest fifth assessment report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts a bleak future for the world, and especially South Asia.
Hinting that it may already be too late for significant course correction on global warming, the report cautions, "Regardless of action taken now to reduce emissions, the climate will change until around the middle of this century."
Urgent damage control and risk mitigation are the need of the hour, the report notes.
"In the longer...