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Bill Hare told Lianhe Zaobao the Middle East conflict has "driven up fossil fuel prices, making a global energy transition extremely urgent. Accelerating the deployment of renewable energy and electrification, and improving energy efficiency are the best safeguards against the impact of geopolitics."

Our CEO, Bill Hare, told AFP some oil-exporting countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the means to undertake a green energy transition.“For these countries, I think it’s a matter of political will.”

"The larger the group of countries, the more diffused the interests are and the less chance you've got of getting a sharp outcome," climate scientist Bill Hare, founder of Climate Analytics think tank, told AFP.

Policy researcher Eoin Quill, puts Russia's greenhouse gas emissions in a global context in this S&P Global Energy Evolution podcast. He explains Russia's role as a carbon sink, and explores how the rapidly warming Arctic could alter the country's energy infrastructure and export capabilities.

Climate Analytics’ Bill Hare warns that a failure to align the the IPCC cycle with the global stocktake could result in less robust science being considered:

“There’s a general consensus that the IPCC is the best available science. It is the formal science, if you like, delivered to the Paris Agreement and climate convention. So, if that doesn’t happen, then it opens the space for other sources of so-called science to come in.” 

Dr Bill Hare, CEO and senior scientist at Climate Analytics, tells Carbon Brief that “the majority of countries, across geographies and levels of development, including least developed countries and small island developing states” support a timeline where the AR7 reports align with the stocktake.

“Global climate ambition continues to stall,” Climate Policy Analyst Sarah Heck told Bloomberg. India's new target “will allow emissions to continue rising and remain far from the level of ambition that India could achieve in practice.”

Key Tuvalun stakeholders met in Funafuti for the BOLD Response Project Inception meeting. For Pacific communities, the consequences of climate change go far beyond the economic damages. Non-economic losses and damages can be some of the most devastating.

“This is a groundbreaking scientific study," says Bill Hare, "most previous assessments of the impacts of sea level rise based on satellite data have likely systematically underestimated exposure to severe risks, as well as the rate at which these risks will increase in the future."

Pacific adaptation and loss and damage analyst Gabriel Mara told Die Zeit "if sea-level rise is faster than currently assumed, then losses will also occur faster than our planning and forecasting models predict," says Mara. The consequences of climate change could therefore be more severe for many countries in the Global South than they have anticipated – and than they have been able to prepare for.