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Climate Justice and Urgency: Insights from the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report sounds a powerful alarm: we must act urgently to protect our planet and people from the accelerating climate crisis.

Human activities — mainly the burning of fossil fuels — have already warmed the Earth by 1.1°C above pre-industrial levels. This has unleashed more frequent and intense heatwaves, floods, droughts, and storms, placing billions of lives at risk.