U.N. warns world must take “unprecedented” steps to avert worst effects of global warming

Society would have to enact “unprecedented” changes to how it consumes energy, travels and builds to meet a lower global warming target or it risks increases in heat waves, flood-causing storms and the chances of drought in some regions as well as the loss of species, a U.N. report said on Monday.

http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/uXlsgJDq-rk/u-n-warns-world-must-take-unprecedented-steps-to-avert-worst-effects-of-global-warming-idUSKCN1MI022