The final report of the United Nation's climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has come out at last. The desperate optimism that characterised the last few volumes (this is part four of four) has frayed away to almost nothing.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres bluntly called it a "survival guide". But it's not even that, really.
It lists all the things that the world's countries could and should be doing, but so did every previous report and most countries are still falling far short of the minimum requirement.
