Climate change impacts are here. And they are here in force. In 2022 alone, several tragic records were broken and the trend toward more frequent, extreme weather events becomes increasingly apparent with every year that passes. Adaptation is a necessity. Despite decades-long warnings and increasingly desperate calls for action, the world has not yet been able to mitigate climate change. At the current pace of action, it is unrealistic to keep global warming below the 1.5°C that the 2015 Paris Agreement is aiming at under best circumstances.