Experts say a new UN climate report out today should act as a "999 emergency call" for the state of the planet.
It's expected to warn a 1.5 degree rise in the Earth's temperature will be reached 10 years earlier than previously thought.
The findings are also due to lay out the scale and pace of change to the world's oceans, ice caps and land.
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