Climate change has become an increasingly large and worrying problem over the last few years. Increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has resulted in an increasing number of visible effects of climate change on our planet such as increasing temperatures, increasing stormy weather and threats to many habitats worldwide. Following the COP26 summit, the importance of reducing the impact and speed of climate change has been emphasised leading to many people individually, as communities and worldwide attempting to work together to play their part in reducing the impacts and speed of climate change, with the hope future generations will be able to enjoy our planet for years to come.

The huge importance of reducing climate change and reducing the speed and impacts has been emphasised among many large-scale climate change organisations, and many people have been individually making changes to their day to day lives so they can make a difference. However, to reduce climate change worldwide everyone needs to play a part together, which can start with small individual changes to peoples lifestyle and routine. Simple things such as recycling more, trying a vegan or vegetarian diet, or trying to walk more can make a huge difference. In addition, trying to raise awareness in your community on how together and individually we can reduce climate change, protect our planet, and assure future generations get to enjoy our planet as we know it today can also encourage others to also make simple changes for the better. Not only will this help protect the planet for human use in the future but also help protect the large number of animals species at risk due to the effects of climate change such as loss of habitat. Consequently, reducing the speed and impact of climate change is vital for our planet as a whole to survive as we know it today.

One positive effect of lockdowns worldwide was that they resulted in significantly lower pollution rates due to less people using cars and public transport worldwide. Consequently, following this many people have been driven to try and reduce the levels of pollution and greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and consequently many people have been trying to walk more and take advantage of the increasing popularity of staycations. This has emphasised the huge importance of reducing climate change now so that future generations can enjoy a healthy and secure planet and has also emphasised that it is not to late to make a change and is possible to make a change for the better, with individual efforts being of increasing importance.