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Mainstreaming gender in the new NDCs can help unlock the full potential of women and girls as powerful agents of change in the climate fight - here's how.

Just transition discussions at the climate negotiations are in limbo
Carlon Mendoza, Kristin Qui
COP29 concluded with more than a few agenda items left unresolved. One was the 'just transition work programme'. What happened during these negotiations? And how can we ensure a better outcome at COP30?

Two new papers published in Nature Climate Change today ask whether the recent global temperatures at or exceeding 1.5° warming above preindustrial mean the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit has been reached or will soon be?

What did we just agree to? The COP29 outcome
Bill Hare, Rueanna Haynes, Manjeet Dhakal, Sasha Jattansingh, Uta Klönne
This COP is already being reflected on as one of the most difficult in the history of the negotiations. And the final text has not made it all worth it. So, what was agreed? And what does it mean for addressing the climate crisis and the work to come next year on the road to COP30 in Belém?

New gas and oil has prevented CO2 global emissions from peaking
Dr Neil Grant, Bill Hare
The Global Carbon Budget's first estimate for 2024's CO2 emissions suggests emissions rose by 0.8% this year. We delve into why we haven't peaked emissions yet.

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.