Climate change poses significant threats to human health and livelihoods through impacts like air pollution, extreme weather, and damage to ecosystems that provide food. The top causes of climate change are burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests, both of which release carbon dioxide that is trapping heat in the atmosphere. As the climate changes, all regions of the world are experiencing effects such as melting ice, rising seas, more extreme weather and temperature variations, and these consequences will intensify if climate change is not urgently addressed.