The United Nations announced this year that there is just over a decade to limit the effects of global warming. Here are six installations by architects, designers and artists that aim to raise awareness of the climate crisis and influence change.

Order of Importance, Miami, USA, by Leandro Erlich
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich has created a sand-covered traffic jam on the beach in Miami city for this year's art week. Comprising sculptures of 66 cars and trucks ? with some submerged so that appear as if they are under the water ? it is intended to draw attention to rising sea levels.
"As an artist, I am in a constant struggle to make people aware of this reality," said Erlich. "In particular, the idea that we cannot shrink away from our responsibilities to protect the planet." Find out more about Order of Importance ?

For Forest, Wörthersee Stadion, Austria, by Klaus Littmann
Swiss art curator Klaus Littmann planted a replica of a European forest in a football stadium to act as a memorial to nature. The project draws on the dystopian vision of artist Max Peintner, which imagined a world where trees would only exist like species of animals in a zoo.
"For Forest is very timely as it coincides with growing global discussions and activism linked to deforestation and climate change," Littmann told Dezeen. "It took me nearly 30 years to realise this project but never has the timing of one of my projects been so spot on."
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