In March 2023 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the current and future state of the Earth’s climate. The report had a bleak message: we are unlikely to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, let alone net zero by 2050. This failure means surpassing a global mean temperature rise of 1.5ºC and facing a hotter, drier and stormier world. But the report provides hope by stating that it is not too late. If we act now and act fast we can still change course.