All is not lost in climate change fight

A lot has been done in the race to tame global warming but much more is needed if we are to preserve life and help nature regenerate, while ensuring the human race survives and flourishes. A sense of urgency should be a no-brainer, as killer heat waves increase in length and durability, storms show ever-increasing intensity and various parts of the planet oscillate between flooding and drought, with temperatures ticking up all the time.

As the annual UN climate summit opened this week in Turkiye, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had yet another urgent message for world leaders, similar to the apocalyptic ones he has made over the last 10 years. The world can do a lot still to avert or reduce the impact of an era he has called “global boiling.”