More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries have come together to declare a climate emergency and create a six-step plan to help humanity mitigate the effects of man-made global warming.
A group of 11,000 scientists from over 153 countries have formally declared a 'climate emergency' after analysing over 40 years of global data.
The data showed immediate action needs to be taken to stop global warming or else widespread human suffering is likely to occur, they said.
The team of scientists, which included Australian Dr Thomas Newsome from the University of Sydney, analysed a range of measures - including surface area, population growth, fertility rates, carbon emissions and energy use - before they came to their declaration.
Dr Newsome is hopeful the report published on Wednesday in the journal will prompt a global response, particularly from governments who he believes have lacked initiative.
"There has been little movements globally in terms of tackling the issue of climate change and so our major goal was to really come up with a new and broad set of graphical indicators to illustrate both the impacts that the humans are having on the climate and also the negative feedback loops associated with climate change," Dr Newsome said.
