Climate change, observed in the form of heatwaves, wildfires, draughts, and floods, often in the same territory within the same year, has dramatic social and economic impacts. It is threatening public safety and undermining food and water security, as well as changing disease patterns and forcing mass displacements of people. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out by the United Nations in 2015 provide the essential pathway to solve the grand societal challenges of our time. With the next UN climate conference, COP28, taking place in Dubai in late November, in parallel with the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC‑23), the time is ripe to acknowledge the intersection of the climate and radiocommunications agendas.

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