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A willing coalition has begun to test how countries can move faster

The Middle East crisis and a volatile oil and gas supply is exposing India's structural weakness: a deep and persistent dependence on imported fossil fuels.

Whether the Agreement ultimately succeeds depends on whether political leaders and their governments have the courage to close the ambition gap, phase out fossil fuels, scale up finance for a just transition, and protect people already facing mounting loss and damage.

The 2025 State of Climate Action report is sobering: Not one of the 45 indicators assessed is on track to achieve its 2030 target. Unprecedented transformational changes across every sector are needed to keep the Paris Agreement goal within reach.

The role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in providing science input into the Paris Agreement and its critical five yearly Global Stocktake is under challenge.

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?