THE fight against climate change has never been more urgent.

The implications of climate change have been apparent in extreme weather events around the world, with Africa experiencing one of its worst tropical cyclones this year, record heatwaves hitting India and Australia, and massive flooding wreaking havoc from the UK to the US to Middle East.

Singapore has not been spared from these effects either, with the last 10 years marked as the warmest ever in the city-state's history.