Climate impacts are heating up in 2023. Marked by heatwaves and wildfires across the globe, the month of July was the hottest on record for the planet. Recent events that have devastated climate vulnerable countries including the havoc created by Cyclone Freddy in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar, severe heatwaves in Asia, Cyclone Mocha and its aftermath in Myanmar and Bangladesh, to name just a few. These disasters bring home the reality of …