The summary of the sixth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in March 2023, is unequivocal: human-induced climate change is widespread, rapid and is intensifying. Extreme climatic phenomena - heat waves, heavy rainfall, drought - are becoming more frequent and more severe; climate drift is already affecting every inhabited region on the planet, and the upheavals will become more pronounced as global warming continues. In the face of this emergency, what can civil society do?