Climate Change: The Defining Issue of our Time

The biggest topic of our time is climate change and we are at a defining moment. The impacts of climate change are global in nature and unparalleled in scale, from changing weather patterns that threaten food production to increasing sea levels that raise the risk of catastrophic flooding. Adapting to these impacts in the future would be more complicated and expensive without drastic action now.

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.

Read more about this UN report: Climate Change