This article explores the paradoxical tension between endings and possibilities, highlighting the need for political, policy, and practical work to address climate change.

The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change)

This collection of essays explores the question of whether it is too late to stop dangerous climate change, offering diverse perspectives on the issue and its impact on public imagination, political discourse, and academic research.

Is it too late (to stop dangerous climate change)? An editorial

Stopping dangerous climate change may not be too late, but addressing social risk in the climate-finance meta-system is crucial for ensuring global financial stability for all.

Is it too late to prevent systemic danger to the world's poor?

Pacific Small Island Developing States can adapt to climate change through community values and resilience efforts, challenging the belief that it is "too late" to act.

It's not “too late”: Learning from Pacific Small Island Developing States in a warming world

Indigenous climate justice may be too late to prevent dangerous climate change due to the lack of consent, trust, accountability, and reciprocity in relationships between indigenous peoples and other societies.

Too late for indigenous climate justice: Ecological and relational tipping points

Climate change is a global issue, and addressing it requires a rapid exit from fossil fuels and a global effort to drive carbon emissions to zero, benefiting all.

A call to climate action

Preventive measures are urgently needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change, which could increase global mean temperatures by up to 5.4oC by 2100.

Climate Change: Acting Now May Already Be Too Late

Climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts are underway at international, regional, national, and local levels, with the goal of reducing the impact of climate change on future generations.

Climate change: how the world is responding

Calls for enhanced climate ambition should prioritize current action and learning by doing, rather than solely focusing on quantitative pledges, to avoid perverse outcomes and maximize learning by doing.

Revisiting climate ambition: The case for prioritizing current action over future intent

Conventional mitigation efforts alone are insufficient to meet the Paris agreement targets, and alternative technologies like biogenic-based sequestration are needed for immediate deployment.

Strategies for mitigation of climate change: a review

Climate change action can still make a difference, with people acting to create a more moral and caring society, but diverse views and backgrounds must be engaged for effective solutions.

It's not too late to do the right thing: Moral motivations for climate change action

The key issue is preventing catastrophic climate change, but current actions are inadequate and ineffective due to inadequate analysis, public misinformation, and inadequate international protection.

Preventing Catastrophic Climate Change

Preventive fiscal policy actions, such as infrastructure investments, can lead to higher GDP growth rates and reduce the negative impact of climate change on capital depreciation rates, especially for small developing countries.

Climate-change adaptation: The role of fiscal policy

Climate change poses significant health risks, and mitigation and adaptation strategies can help minimize these risks and adapt to emerging challenges.

Preventing and mitigating health risks of climate change.

Climate change is increasing children's health risks, with 88% of global deaths due to diseases affecting children, and prevention strategies include reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to public health interventions.

Global Climate Change and Children’s Health: Threats and Strategies for Prevention

Climate change impacts human health directly, indirectly, and through social disruption, requiring rapid, deep greenhouse emissions cuts for mitigation and health-enhancing solutions.

Climate Change and Human Health.

Precision agriculture, through improved fertilizer, soil, and water management, can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining crop yields and ensuring sustainability of agricultural systems.

Climate Change

Climate change could lead to substantial health impacts, with dietary and weight-related risk factors being the most significant contributors to climate-related deaths by 2050.

Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study

Climate change is linked to increased asthma and allergic disease prevalence and severity due to worsening air pollution and altered pollen production.

Climate change and allergic disease.

Climate change economics provides insights into designing policies to reduce, avoid, or adapt to climate change, influencing decision-making under uncertainty and influencing policy implementation at domestic and international levels.

Economics Of Climate Change

Some studies suggest it may not be too late to prevent dangerous climate change through political, policy, and practical work, while other studies highlight the urgency of immediate action and the need for alternative technologies to avoid irreversible consequences.