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Today, the European Commission unveiled its 2040 climate target — which was meant to align EU policy with the 1.5°C warming limit. Instead, it arrives weakened by loopholes that risk setting back years of progress.

Does signing COP pledges makes a difference at the national level? We look at eight Asian countries.

"To me, neither of these papers suggests we have reached 1.5°C," Bill Hare comments on two papers published today in Nature Climate Change calculating how close we are to the longer-term Paris Agreement limit.

Only six of the countries the Climate Action Tracker analyses have submitted their new 2035 climate targets in time for the Paris Agreement's 10 February 2025 deadline, and only one — the UK — is proposing actions at home that are 1.5°C-aligned.

The Paris Agreement will remain the engine of global climate action long after Trump’s final term in office, yet his withdrawal today from the accord will leave a long lasting negative mark on the competitiveness of American business.

On Friday 22 Nov at COP29, Bill Hare comments on the latest round of text on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance, the Global Stocktake and the mitigation work programme