What are the effects of climate change?
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The effects of climate change are with us right now. Millions are suffering already. And younger generations are being robbed of their future on a healthy, liveable planet.
The effects of climate change include extreme heat and drought, more rainfall and more frequent extreme weather events such as storms and floods.
Around the world, climate change already has (or will soon have) impacts on every aspect of human life. Wildfires and extreme temperatures are already impacting people’s health. Drought and less fresh water mean it’s harder to grow food.
Climate change is a consequence of rising average global temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. Small changes in temperatures, from only 1ºC above what they were before the industrial era, are already affecting the environment and people worldwide.
World leaders agreed at the 2015 Paris climate summit to limit temperatures to well below 2ºC, and 1.5ºC if at all possible. This is because there really ...
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