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"From the science, we've known for a very long time that even limiting warming to 1.5C global average mean is going be really bad for our reefs," Bill Hare told AAP following a coral bleaching event off Australia's Kimberley Coast. "We're going to lose a very large fraction of our tropical reefs."

Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets. "The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance," Bill Hare told Reuters.

“Trump is going to make the job of meeting our climate goals a lot harder,” says Bill Hare. Initial analysis from the Climate Action Tracker suggests that Trump's policies could raise cumulative US emissions by 2–4 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030.

An estimated 30,000 fish have washed up dead along Western Australia’s Pilbara coast. Bill Hare told the Guardian marine heatwaves were known to trigger “extreme low oxygen events, which then create a bigger environmental mess”, though it was not yet clear whether low oxygen contributed to the death of these fish.

Thomas Houlie told Sea News that the method for calculating methane emissions from ships is flawed as methane emission ratios measures used by maritime regulators do not capture actual methane emissions.

"This is going to cause a major problem for the clean tech industry in the US", Bill Hare told DW News. "There could be USD$50-80 billion of lost economic opportunities for the US."

With the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, “the world is more likely to warm slightly more,″ said Bill Hare. “The more the world warms, the faster we will experience more extreme weather events such as flooding, extreme hurricanes, fire, weather, drought, and heat. The U.S. will not be exempt from such events.”

Trump is taking aim at appliance conservation standards to boost water flow. Thomas Houlie told AP News “industries and private sectors see it (energy efficiency) as adding more constraints on them. They tend to overlook the benefits that will be gained from the measures.”

Even with a Trump withdrawal from the accord, “the Paris Agreement will remain the engine of global climate action long after his final term in office” Bill Hare told Devex.

According to the 1.5°C national pathway explorer, Australia's 2030 goal should be 57-67% below 2005 levels to align with the 1.5°C temperature limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.