We are in a climate emergency, but there is still time to avert disaster if we take bold, immediate action at the speed and scale necessary – beyond what politicians have deemed politically possible. The next ~7 years is humanity’s best window to enact bold, transformational changes in our global economy to avoid raising the global temperature above 1.5oc, a point of no return that science tells us is likely to make the worst climate impacts inevitable. The deadline and lifeline on the climate clock tell us what we need to do, by when. They are arguably the most important numbers in the world.