Climate Changes Are Here!: BREAKING NEWS: UN Report Punctuates Climate Urgency

EDF Member—

Last night, halfway around the world in Yokohama, Japan, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—the preeminent international climate scientific body—released a new report on the grave threats climate change poses to humans and the natural world.

The stark warning: There isn’t a place on earth that isn’t already feeling the effects of climate change. Even if we slash emissions immediately, societies around the globe will have to take major steps to adapt to warming we’re already seeing. And it will get worse.

The findings underscore the point EDF President Fred Krupp has made: we must focus our work on managing the unavoidable and avoiding the unmanageable.

Over the next few days, we’ll have more to say about this report and what it means in our fight to avoid climate catastrophe.

For now, your donation today to our 2014 Annual Fund is the most important step you can take to support our all-out effort to fight for climate action here in the U.S. and around the world.

This is a race against time. The science underscores the urgency. But, with your support, we are seizing every possible opportunity to make progress. We’re fighting for the first national carbon pollution limits on America’s power plants, engaging cities to pilot cleaner energy solutions, working with China to slash their climate emissions, and reducing deforestation in the Amazon.

These are some of the critical steps we are taking...and we’re making a huge difference. But, we need your support today to keep making progress on these and other important clean energy and climate initiatives.

This is a serious moment and, as today’s IPCC report underscores, time is running out. What we do together in the coming days, weeks and months could make a huge difference in this fight. I hope we can count on your Annual Fund support today to help us respond the growing climate threat.