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• Three degrees of global warming would be catastrophic
• Since the industrial revolution, the earth has warmed between 1.1 and 1.3 degrees Celsius
• Children born today are up to seven times more likely to face extreme weather than their grandparents
• If global temperatures do rise by three degrees, it would lead to rising sea levels, desertification, and other disastrous effects
• 1.1 to 1.3 degrees of global warming has already transformed the life of Minara, a climate migrant from Bangladesh
• Nearly 400,000 climate migrants move to the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh each year
• There is at least a one in four chance that under current policies, we would hit three degrees of global warming by the end of the century
• Even if all policy promises are kept and net zero targets are met, there is still a 1 in 20 chance that we end up with 3 degrees of global warming
• A rise of 3 degrees would affect everyone, even wealthy cities and rich countries
• Cities magnify and intensify climate events, and disasters in a city affect far more people
• Smallholders, small-scale farmers, are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and they produce around a third of the global food supply
• Severe droughts in Central America are now four times more likely than they were last century, and migration from Guatemala to the United States has quadrupled since 1990
• In a three-degree world, annual rainfall in Central America could drop by up to 14 percent, and over a quarter of the world's population could endure extreme droughts for at least a month of the year
• By 2100, global sea levels could have climbed by half a meter from 2005 levels, displacing up to a third of the population in low-lying cities like Lagos
• The village of Toguru in Fiji is being swallowed by the sea, and past attempts to build a sea wall have not worked
• In a three-degree world, many more countries could suffer from increased storm surges, including the Philippines and Myanmar
• In Dhaka, the average daytime temperature has crept up by nearly half a degree in the last 20 years, and high wet bulb temperatures are on the rise, which can be deadly for humans
• Jacobabad in Pakistan and Ras Al Qaima in the United Arab Emirates have already recorded deadly wet bulb temperatures, and more of the tropics and the Persian Gulf, as well as parts of Mexico and the southeastern United States, could all get to this threshold by the end of the century
• In a three-degree world, tens of millions of people a year could be displaced by disasters made worse by climate change
• Water, already a highly contested resource, will be a focal point of conflict in a three-degree world, with tensions between countries like Turkey, Iraq, China, and India
• Despite existing pledges, greenhouse gas emissions are still set to rise by 16% from 2010 levels by 2030, and more needs to be done to reduce emissions and avoid a three-degree world