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By the numbers: the climate action we need this decade
Danial Riaz, Marie-Charlotte Geffray, Dr Neil Grant
We break down the transformational changes needed in the power, buildings, transport and agriculture sectors to slash greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.
The IEA just published its 2024 World Energy Outlook: what does it say?
Bill Hare, Dr Neil Grant
Our experts pull out the key messages from the International Energy Agency's 2024 global update on the energy sector and its implications for the climate.
The loss and damage fund must be accessible to those it was set up to serve – the most vulnerable to climate change
Sneha Pandey, Dr Olivia Serdeczny
The board of the 'Fund for responding to Loss and Damage' has diverging views on accessibility. We look at lessons from similar funds and options currently on the table.
Why the Caribbean is bracing for what could be the worst hurricane season on record
Dr Rosanne Martyr, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Unprecedented sea surface temperatures in June have already fuelled a hurricane that has flattened communities in the Caribbean - the earliest of its kind. With forecasts warning of more to come, our experts get into the numbers of why this years' season could be the worst on record.
Dug up in Australia, burned around the world – exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets
Bill Hare
Our research found Australia’s coal and gas exports were responsible for 1.15 billion tonnes of CO₂ emissions in 2023. An additional 46 million tonnes of CO₂ were emitted domestically in the process of extracting, processing and distributing those fossil fuels purely for export. That takes the total to 1.2 billion tonnes of CO₂ attributable to fossil fuel exports.
Delay tactics at IPCC-61 could put science inputs to the UNFCCC at risk
Uta Klönne, Dr Fahad Saeed
The latest Plenary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just concluded in Sofia, Bulgaria. Despite days of deliberation, delegates were not able to agree on delivering the next round of reports in time for the second global stocktake, despite a request to do so from governments in the first global stocktake outcome agreed in Dubai last year.