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Daniela Schmidt

Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

We are currently on the path of warming with devastating consequences for many regions, peoples, economies, and ecosystems. This COP has not changed this path, has not increased speed or ambition. 

How do we pick ourselves up and, if the governments don’t increase action, bring this to the places where we work, the cities where we live and communities where we are home? Because this is where the action must be when governments fail. No action is no option as too many communities are deeply vulnerable to climate change. While at the moment we are focused on floods, hurricanes, droughts and term these as extreme events, they will become the norm and combine with increases to food prices, displacement and increasing loss of livelihood. Climate change will not stop because we do not acknowledge what needs to be done.

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