A new landmark report co-written by hundreds of scientists across the world has warned the global temperature will rise one-point-five degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels about ten years earlier than initially forecast.  

According to the Korea Meteorological Administration on Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) has approved a working-level report that says it is highly likely the one-point-five degree threshold will be breached between this year and 2040. 

In its previous report released in 2018, the UN body had predicted the mercury rise of one-point-five degrees will be realized between 2030 and 2052. 

If the earth’s average surface temperature rises one-point-five degrees, extreme weather events such as heatwaves are predicted to be eight-point-six times more frequent and twice more intense. 

The IPCC report was written by a total of 234 scientists in the world who read over 14-thousand research papers before the drafting.