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- Published: 12th August 2021
Our planet has spoken and it demands climate action

Amid a world in parts burning, in parts drowning and in parts starving, the IPCC has just tabled the most undeniable wake-up call yet for global industry to switch from oil, gas and coal to renewables.
It is so important that our governments use everything in their power to bring into effect the urgent change that is needed to protect our future. And we, citizens of the world, must use our political power and behaviours to push big polluting corporations and governments in the right direction as there is no Plan B.
IPCC describes humanity’s slimmest chance to keep global warming to 1.5°C and avert planetary ruin and their report is yet more unimpeachable proof that climate change is happening now, and that global warming is already one of the most harmful drivers of worsening hunger and starvation, migration, poverty and inequality all over the world.
In recent years, with 1°C of global heating, there have been deadly cyclones in Asia and Central America, floods in Europe and the UK, huge locust swarms across Africa, and unprecedented heatwaves and wildfires across the US, Turkey, Greece and Australia ―all turbo-charged by climate change.
Over the past 10 years, more people have been forced from their homes by extreme weather-related disasters than for any other single reason ―20 million a year, or one person every two seconds. The number of climate-related disasters has tripled in 30 years, with the UN estimating that 1.23 million people have died and 4.2 billion have been affected by droughts, floods and wildfires since 2020 alone.