FILE PHOTO: Skyscrapers Shanghai Tower (L), Shanghai World Financial Center (top) and Jin Mao Tower (R) are seen during rain at the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China, January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
LONDON/INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Keeping the Earth's temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius means making rapid, unprecedented changes in the way people use energy to eat, travel and live or we risk even more extreme weather and loss of species, a U.N. report said on Monday.
Meeting 1.5C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, rather than the 2C target agreed at global climate talks in Paris in 2015, would have "clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems," the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on Monday.
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