Australia is well and truly grappling with the pressing challenges of the climate crisis.
The 2019-20 bushfire season is still a not-too-distant memory, a fresh wound. The last three La Niña summers have brought successive floods, not even giving communities enough time to clean up and rebuild before being struck again.
And though La Niña seems behind us, the future looks bleak, with an impending “super El Niño” promising droughts, heatwaves and bushfires. As the recent devastating report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has forecast, there is a 98% chance the world will face its hottest year on record before 2028.
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