… [T]he existential threat to the planet and humankind posed by climate change has been on the international agenda since the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), supplemented first by the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, and then by the Paris Agreement of 2015. By 2024, there were 198 parties to the UNFCCC. A vital component in promoting informed awareness has been the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988 to provide the best available scientific evidence to governments. In 2024, it consisted of 195 experts. …