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Bill Hare said the court had reinforced the legal weight behind existing agreements. “States have a responsibility to regulate private activity within their jurisdictions and they have a responsibility to all other states for the consequences of actions taken,” he said. “This together means that countries have an obligation to limit, reduce and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel production.”

Bill Hare told The Guardian “Any investment in new fossil fuels now is a fool’s gamble, while joining the race to renewables can only bring benefits – not just jobs and cheaper energy at stable prices, but energy independence and access where it’s needed most".

Migration visas for Tuvalu citizens at risk of sea level rise "are the repercussion of our failure to meet the Paris Agreement's targets," Dr Rosanne Martyr told the BBC.

Analysis by Climate Analytics projects that heatwave days will double or triple in Berlin, Paris, Madrid and other cities by the end of the century without drastic cuts of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Bill Hare told Anadolu that Germany has failed to move quickly enough, jeopardising its ability to meet the EU’s 2030 climate and energy framework.

"We're close to 1.5°C of global warming, and Europeans are already suffering from record heat. That's why, as we approach the Paris Agreement threshold, it's so important that people understand the dangers associated with exceeding that threshold," Bill Hare told Público.

The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual UN climate talks in Bonn by Bill Hare, and includes new warnings about an Amazon rainforest tipping point.

"Because of the variety of natural resources that countries have, if they pool resources by connecting cross-border energy systems, all of those systems become much more efficient," Prof. Dr. Michiel Schaeffer told CNBC Indonesia.

Bill Hare, CEO of think tank Climate Analytics, said Thursday it was "inevitable" that the world would breach the 1.5°C limit in around five years "unless emissions are reduced quickly".