Storms and rising seas: the post-climate change world is upon us

This document summarizes an interview with Professor Saleemul Huq, the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). In 2020, the world entered a post-climate-change world, warns leading scientist Saleemul Huq – and that makes November’s COP26 climate summit a make-or-break event for our planet.

COP26 is now one year late. In Huq’s view, the delay has allowed a vital transition to pass unmarked; 2020 marked the turning point from a pre- to a post-climate-change world. And that makes destructive floods, cyclones and wildfires the new normal for our planet.