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No, it is not too late to take meaningful action that limits the severity of climate change and avoids the worst outcomes, but it is too late to prevent climate change entirely or fully reverse all its effects on human timescales. Some impacts are already locked in or irreversible for centuries to millennia, while the trajectory of future warming remains highly dependent on emissions choices made

No, it is not too late to reverse the trajectory of climate change or limit its worst impacts, though some changes are already irreversible on human timescales, and the window for the most ambitious goals is rapidly closing. “Reverse” needs clarification: fully returning the climate to a pre-industrial state is not feasible in our lifetimes (or for many centuries), but we can still halt further ra

No, it is not too late to limit the severity of climate change, stabilize global temperatures, and avoid the worst outcomes—though some changes are already irreversible on human timescales, and fully reversing to a pre-industrial climate is not realistic soon. Every fraction of a degree of warming avoided still matters enormously for reducing risks, impacts, and damages.[[1]](https://www.ipcc.ch/r