Climate change is becoming the most important systemic risk humankind and the planet are likely to face in the near future. In 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a stark warning that we have only until 2030 to take action to avoid disaster. 

While the IPCC landmark report tells the story of an impending global emergency, international institutions, countries and local communities struggle to interiorize the alert. They remain slow to plan adaptation to new climatic patterns and extreme events. 




The socio-economic and political implications of climate change are clearly apparent and a race is on, in which climate change appears to move faster than the solutions we are deploying. 

This Library Talk will give you a better view of this important topic and help you judge whether or not we are on the brink of a global emergency.