Burning fossil fuels – coal, oil and gas – for power and transport is the main cause of the climate crisis. Along with other human activities (like cutting down forests and farming) burning fossil fuels releases heat-trapping pollution called greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
This warms the planet – destabilising the climate, and pollutes the air we breathe. The outcome is extreme weather – floods, droughts, wildfires, longer heat waves, and rising sea levels.
Heartbreakingly, over 90% of the worlds children now breath toxic air.