4 Adaptation to climate change is basically managing the unavoidable and mitigation is avoiding the unmanageable. Climate change has everything to do with people and communities being able to enjoy their inalienable fundamental human rights. The adverse impacts of climate change are serious: sea-level rise, temperature increase, extreme weather events, changes in precipitation patterns, ocean acidification, heat waves, forest fires, glacial melting, disruption of biological ecosystems, and many others. All of these combine to threaten human rights. We are already experiencing the implications: tragic loss of lives, large-scale displacement, collapse of food systems, unprecedented disasters, sea level rise, increase in disease incidence, loss of land, depletion in clean water supply. The climate change equation is such that the more we fail to mitigate, the harder it is to adapt. The more people fail to adapt, the more our human rights are threatened and rendered denied. As such, the best form of climate justice is to meaningfully stop the climate crisis, and this can only be possible if the world abandons the economic paradigm that is reliant on fossil fuels. This demands system change, not incremental token change. It will require massive social and economic transformation from one that is controlled by a few, dominated by greed and arrogance, to a new world characterized by clean energy and production systems in the hands of people and communities, living in harmony with each other and with the planet. Mitigation and adaptation is just a means to that end, and for us to truly solve the climate change problem, we will have to dismantle the power dynamics that pervade our societies. Scientific consensus tells us that for this to happen, we need to keep 80% of the remaining fossil fuel reserves where they are. Essentially, this means a rapid decline and end of the fossil fuel era. Climate change is the defining issue of our generation. We will be measured by how we respond to this climate crisis. Despite the gargantuan challenge that climate change is, it offers the people of this planet the rare but golden opportunity to achieve transformative change. The climate change challenge will make the world a better place. Simply because it is our only option. For us to weather the storm and survive, our societies need to embrace positive change. And this means the emergence of people and communities who care about the future of humanity. On climate justice: Today, climate change impacts are already profoundly affecting every square inch of the world, but disproportionately being felt by the poorest and the most vulnerable communities. If the climate crisis persists and things make a turn for the worse, no street will be safe, no home will be secure. The climate crisis is not just some environmental problem. It fundamentally threatens real lives and livelihoods. It is a real, clear and present danger to the realization of basic human rights. The impacts of climate change as we already witness on a daily basis, affects the increasingly marginalized, the vulnerable, those who are struggling to escape poverty, and those who have the least capability to