Climate change can have an impact on people’s lives, health, and livelihoods. And when governments around the world fail to act, millions are affected. A new study , published by The Lancet, looks at how these “delays in adaptation” exacerbate the effects of climate change on the planet and humans. “The mitigation of climate greenhouse gases is not globally as swift and as rapidly progressing as what is needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement,” Joacim Rocklöv, Co-Director of the Lancet