Why We Need To Act Now
Heatwaves, floods, storms and ecological decline are disrupting schools, overwhelming health systems, damaging livelihoods, and eroding the natural ecosystems that protect entire regions.
Each additional year of inaction increases the cost in lives, lost education, food insecurity, migration and irreversible biodiversity loss.
The Window for Action Is Closing
Recovery becomes far more difficult and far more expensive than prevention.
1 billion children
living at extremely high risk of climate-related hazards.
14% of species
at high extinction risk at 1.5°C warming.
According to the UNICEH and IPCC AR6 report
Human Lives and Stability at Risk
Extreme weather is affecting the education of millions of children,
public health systems are facing greater pressure as climate-related diseases increase,
and repeated economic shocks are making households and small businesses more vulnerable to poverty and debt.
43 million children have been displaced by extreme weather and lack access to normal living conditions and educational resources.
Heat-related deaths have risen by 50% in the past 20 years.
Crop yields may drop 5–20% at 2°C of warming.
500 million smallholder farmers face worsening water scarcity.
Nature and Ecosystems at Risk
The ecosystems that protect people — forests, mangroves, wetlands, coral reefs — are also at the edge of a tipping point.
Wetlands are disappearing three times faster than forests.
70–90% of coral reefs could be lost at 1.5°C.
14% of terrestrial species face extinction risk at 1.5°C.
Evidence-Based Action Works
Protect Children’s Futures and Strengthen Community Resilience
Each additional year of schooling raises an individual's hourly earnings by about 10% on average.
Sustained and rapid economic growth can only be achieved when at least 40% of a country's adult population is literate.
Protect Climate-Stabilising Ecosystems and Slow Biodiversity Loss
Restoring ecosystems strengthens protection and biodiversity.
Mangrove and wetland restoration reduces storm damage, restores fish populations, and sequesters carbon.
Community-led restoration projects show >80% seedling survival when communities directly participate.


