February 28, 2022

LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - As scientists readied for Monday's release of a sobering United Nations climate report, some worried it would be overshadowed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The report – described by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres as "an atlas of suffering" – calls for concerted efforts by governments to prepare for a warmer world.

But few could ignore the plight of the sole Ukrainian report author, a botanist who described taking cover in a Kyiv bomb shelter during the final line-checking of a report for the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that took three years to put together.

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