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Fossil gas: a bridge to nowhere

The war in Ukraine and energy crisis have shown that a green energy transition is important for energy security as well as for climate change. While there is growing consensus on the need for a power sector coal phase-out, fossil gas has largely flown under the radar.

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The Climate Action Tracker

The Climate Action Tracker provides independent scientific analysis that tracks government climate action and measures it against the Paris Agreement goal of holding warming well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

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Renewable energy transition in sub-Saharan Africa

Africa has 60% of the world’s best solar resources and a unique opportunity to capitalise on its low levels of fossil fuel infrastructure and growing demand for clean, affordable energy.

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Climate risk dashboard

The Climate Risk Dashboard (BETA) allows you to explore future impacts from climate change as the world warms. Pick a geography, select one or several scenarios and explore corresponding impacts.

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Why gas is the new coal

Gas is not a bridging fuel – it’s a fossil fuel. To reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C temperature goal, governments, investors and finance institutions must treat gas like coal and target it for swift phase-out.

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1.5°C national pathway explorer

Explore emission pathways in line with the Paris Agreement for different countries and 1.5°C compatible benchmarks for individual sectors.

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Limiting warming using solar geoengineering is a 100 year plus commitment, new study

New peer reviewed research shows that if solar radiation management - where higher amounts of sunlight are reflected back to space through artificially altering either the Earth’s surface or the atmosphere – is deployed to limit warming to 1.5°C without emissions cuts beyond those currently envisioned by governments, it would have to be maintained for at least a hundred years.

28 March 2023

Coal and LNG emissions could break proposed Safeguard Mechanism

The projected emissions from Australia’s existing and committed coal and LNG production would exceed the total emission limits of the government’s proposed Safeguard Mechanism (SGM), according to our new analysis released today.

26 February 2023

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South Korea’s gas problem

South Korea is heavily investing in gas-fired power generation, raising concerns that this approach to energy policy will lead to increased costs, as it overlooks cheaper forms of generations – like renewables – and increases the country reliance on overseas fossil fuel imports.

27 March 2023

Peak emissions before 2025: key messages from the IPCC’s Synthesis Report

The IPCC's final report of its Sixth Assessment Cycle is a comprehensive overview of the state of climate change and a roadmap for action in this critical. Our experts pull out the key messages.

21 March 2023

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Loss and Damage

Here we provide key resources on loss and damage, including scientific studies and briefing materials relating to the UNFCCC policy process.

Is the 1.5°C limit still in reach?

We address some commonly asked questions about the 1.5°C temperature goal.

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Solar radiation modification: a dangerous distraction from required emissions reductionsBriefing papers

Solar radiation modification (SRM), is presented by some as an option that may help to limit global temperature rise. However, SRM cannot address the root causes of anthropogenic climate change – the continued emissions of greenhouse gases. Investing precious time and resources in this critical decade to explore SRM technologies distracts from the urgent need to step up mitigation efforts to halve emissions by 2030.

2023, March

The deployment length of solar radiation modification: an interplay of mitigation, net-negative emissions and climate uncertaintyPeer reviewed

Here, we investigate the deployment timescales of SRM and how they are affected by different levels of mitigation, net-negative emissions and climate uncertainty. In all pathways consistent with extrapolated current ambition, SRM deployment would exceed 100 years even under the most optimistic assumptions regarding climate response.

2023, March

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Climate Analytics: A Helpful Resource About Climate Change in the Caribbean

“It is a critical decade to limit warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Though Caribbean small islands have contributed comparatively little to global emissions, they are among the most vulnerable from the impacts.” - Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Head of Climate Science at Climate Analytics

30 March 2023

We're on track to exceed the 1.5˚C climate goal: what happens then?

Citing CAT research and quoting Climate Analytics' CEO Bill Hare, this article discusses projected temperature rise, the 1.5C Paris Agreement limit and the potential of negative emissions to help lower global temperatures in the case that temperatures overshoot 1.5C.

27 March 2023

Research finds rising temperatures will limit adaptation options in The Bahamas, with implications for the wider Caribbean

“If temperatures rise over this limit, there is still an option we can bring them back down again if we can get to net zero emissions and get carbon out of the atmosphere,” commented Dr. Carl-Freiderich Schleussner from Climate Analytics.

10 March 2023