We’re only a few months into 2023 and climate change is already hard at work, with extreme weather events hitting headlines and costing lives and livelihoods all around the world.
We’ve already seen a record-breaking cyclone in south-eastern Africa, wildfires in Chile, unbearable heatwaves across Asia, powerful ice storms in the southern United States, and more, highlighting what we all already know to be true: climate change is happening here and now.
What’s more, things are slated to get worse. In the most recent report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in March, environmental experts predict that at our current rate of collective inaction against the climate crisis, the world could be facing 1.5°C temperature rise by the beginning of the 2030s. As such, extreme weather events would increase in frequency and strength.
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