Putting a price on carbon pollution and investing in clean technology projects in developing countries could create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the U.S. and help America catch up to China and Europe in the clean energy race.

WWF Climate Savers Innovation Reports reveal how world-leading companies are taking imaginative, effective steps to make major cuts in their CO2 emissions.

The report focuses on four phenomena and/or regions where climate change may push the Earth system past tipping points with significant impacts within this century: sea level rise, particularly along the northeast U.S. coast, shifts in the Indian summer monsoon combined with the melting of Himalayan glaciers, Amazon die-back and drought, and shift in aridity in southwest North America. The report was produced by WWF and Allianz SE.

Over the past few decades, the Arctic has warmed at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe. The impact of this on the Arctic’s physical systems, biological systems, and human inhabitants is large and projected to grow throughout this century and beyond.

This fact sheet details the largest issues facing the Arctic as a result of climate change, including the melting of permafrost and the subsequent release of methane and CO2, and provides an overview of how they negatively impact Arctic vegetation and the ability for Arctic species to survive.

This fact sheet focuses on the effects of new species migrating to the area and creating competition for food and possibly importing new parasites and diseases. In addition, migratory birds arriving to the Arctic from non-Arctic areas will experience the disappearance of their stop-over nesting sites as a result of rising sea levels.