being experienced by many people across the world right now. this year wildfires in greece, massive flooding in nigeria, and uganda, a food crisis in madagascar, and of course we will not escape the impacts here in our country. this is an important point we all need to recognise, limiting warming to 1.5 degrees will not prevent all of the impacts of climate change, it is probably already too late to do that, but every fraction of a degree above that intensifies the catastrophic nature of what we face. if we allow that to happen we risk life on this planet becoming unrecognisable. every single leader without exception gathering in glasgow next week knows that. no one can pretend otherwise and each and every country gathered round the negotiating table also knows the