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Forest fires are burning out of control in Greece, Russia and California - on the day the world's leading authority on climate change, the IPCC, releases its most up-to-date report on the climate.

It's not good news, with the impact of climate change much more widespread and severe than had previously been predicted.

The findings will be the basis for the crucial arguments at the COP 26 talks in November when world leaders will go to Glasgow to make deals aimed at reducing emissions and keeping temperature increases liveable.

Christiana Figueres ran the UN treaty which enabled the 2015 Paris Agreement and is the founding partner of Global Optimism. She says this is THE decisive decade for the planet.

"This is not climate change anymore, this is climate chaos... We are literally holding the pen of history in our hands. Wake up!"

(Photo: Children at a climate strike. Credit: Reuters)