In 2023, climate change likely contributed to a number of major extreme weather events and disasters. Several of these events demonstrate how climate extremes are threatening wider areas that have not typically been prone to such extremes; for example, severe flooding in northern China, around Beijing, killed at least 33 people. Other recent disasters include deadly flash floods and landslides in northern India, record-breaking heat waves in the United States, and an exceptionally intense Mediterranean storm that killed thousands of people, primarily in Libya (see table 1 for details and attribution). As these impacts continue to accelerate, more funding to compensate for climate-related loss and damage in developing countries is urgently needed. The United Nations’ new loss and damage global fund established at COP27 is a promising development, but its success will require robust support by wealthy countries. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571?campaignid=20743931729&adgroupid=158295825987&adid=679553844880&gclid=CjwKCAiA3aeqBhBzEiwAxFiOBlu74Vac4v6JoI9DNCgBikcrEFo73inPj6mu-iYmyZFEaxsCWJTM1xoCr5QQAvD_BwE