The report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the second instalment in a series of three widely anticipated studies on global warming to be issued this year by the body. The report is the collective work of more than 1,000 of the world’s scientists.

This new instalment outlines the far-reaching impact that global warming is already having and expected to have over the next few centuries on the world’s environment, ranging from freshwater fish to mangroves and boreal forests.