8.7 Case Study – the 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink

The case study text for this chapter is broader than the chapter, but much of it is focused on ecosystem health and biodiversity. It is explicitly urgent and it makes alarming reading. It is also the most recent compilation of the range of climate-change impacts on the planet. The text here is an article, in contrast to the thousands of pages of the IPCC reports that assess climate change exhaustively every 5-7 years.

Ripple WJ et al. The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink. BioScience Special Report. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf149 .