By Ellie Zolfagharifard It’s not just polar bears years from now that will be affected by climate change, the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and very human. This is according the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which said this year that the impact of climate change is ‘widespread and consequential.’ Yet the impact seen in the future still largely depends on the actions countries take to reduce their emissions today, the report said. The World Resources Institute has created an infographic, based on IPCC data, that depicts the likely consequences of various emissions pathways. In the low emissions pathway, the IPCC data suggests that carbon dioxide output will peak by 2020 and then drop 66 per cent below 2010 levels by 2020
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The infographic was created by the World Resources Institute based on data from this year's IPCC report
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It shows what the future might hold in terms of temperature rises, rainfall changes and ecosystem damage
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Each of the four pathways also notes the year the world will likely exhaust the remaining carbon budget
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The worst case scenario suggests annual carbon dioxide emissions will continue to rise through 2100
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If this happens, the WRI infographic suggests that the world's carbon budget will be exhausted by 2045
‘The bottom line is that it’s still possible to limit global temperature rise to 2°C, preventing some of the more disastrous consequences of climate change,’ said the @placeholder.