Today we know a great deal about the climate change issue: ▪ the planet is warming and will continue to warm in the decades ahead; ▪ human activities – in particular the combustion of coal, gas and oil – are the main cause; ▪ floods, droughts, heat waves, or what experts call extreme events, are intensifying in different parts of the world in an erratic manner and they are undermining the idea of the stability to which we are accustomed, resulting in destroyed communities, economic damage to people and entire production systems, as well as, unfortunately, deaths and injuries.