The final report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released on Sunday and was followed by immediate reaction from the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who underlined the fact that the "global sweeping concerted action" was now needed on climate change.

In accordance with Ban Ki-moon’s indications about the report, the worst-case scenario foreseen was as frightening as a science fiction film.

The 20-page document issued by an UN-backed panel of scientists that strongly warns on the future climate changes was praised by the UN Secretary General. According to Ban Ki-moon, this latest report on climate change "answered many of our questions on climate change."

Talking about what might follow, the UN Secretary General said that the international community would now have to "transform" its way of doing things, as he put it, and also used the expression "treasure of our planet" when talking about what is the purpose of the future changes.

Approximately 2,000 scientists worked on the final "synthesis" report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The document is in fact a summary of three reports issued by the same UN-backed panel earlier this year. The final report will be released in Valencia, Spain.

The terminology used in this report was the point of much controversy and dispute between governments. This can be explained by the fact that, according to environmentalists, this document will serve as a manual on how to tackle global warming and will also set the tone for a crucial UN climate conference in Bali, Indonesia next month.

The final IPCC document shows very clear that the global warming is in fact a man-made phenomenon and is as real as it gets. The report also presents what consequences would have the warming of the atmosphere by more than 2 degrees Celsius. These consequences
are probably what made the UN Secretary General think of a science fiction movie.

According to the report the global temperatures have risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years.

To prevent the global temperature from increasing, the global emissions must be 50 to 65 per cent below 2000 levels by 2050. These measures will not stop the global warming; they will just slow it down.

The possible consequences of the global warming would be flooding, droughts, the loss of coastlines and thousands of animal and plant species.

The IPCC panel along with former US vice president Al Gore were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month for raising awareness of the threat of climate change with their film entitled “An Inconvenient Truth.”