New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) said that the IPCC report, released on Monday, underscored that "there is no time for delay and no room for excuses".

Terming the IPCC Working Group 1 Report as a "code red for humanity", Guterres, in a global media release soon after the IPCC report was released earlier in the day, said, that "the alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk".