evidence: What the Geological Record Tells us About our Present and Future Climate" shows how carbon emissions from human activities are causing climate change. The geological record provides powerful evidence that atmospheric CO2 concentrations drive climate change, and supports multiple lines of evidence that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are altering the Earth’s climate. These changes directly affect our environment as well as the health and wellbeing of humans across the world. Anthropogenic climate change needs to be slowed, stopped and ideally reversed by meeting or exceeding the targets for emissions reductions set out in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. [...] Tackling anthropogenic climate change is imperative, as our Scientific Statement demonstrates, and Earth scientists have a key role to play in the solution to this challenge. In partnership with others, we can help secure a better and more equitable future for all.