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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.

At the Coming Back from COP29 summit, hosted on December 17 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Climate Analytics Caribbean shared critical analysis of key issues, including finance, adaptation, loss and damage and just transition.

Our report "The role of northern forests in limiting warming to 1.5°C" is cited in this long form piece from Reuters on the risks posed to Boreal forests.

Dr Neil Grant spoke to the Washington Post about the need for China's peak emissions to be followed by a steep decline.

The Global Mitigation Potential Atlas is being extended to include countries beyond Southeast Asia, enabling it to model potential cross-regional partnerships.

“The NCQG commitments fall far short of the financing needed. Developed countries have refused to cooperate and instead have been spouting nonsense about the urgency of the situation. The so-called roadmap by the COP29 Presidency to reach $1.3 trillion per year by 2035 is still vague and there is no clear path to get there,” Thomas Houlie said.

COP29 in Baku has concluded but its outcome is disappointing, writes Bill Hare on The Guardian. "Its decisions on finance – agreeing that the developed world would provide US$300bn a year by 2035 – comes nowhere close to what’s needed."

The Paris Agreement requires countries to to set targets and report on progress reducing national levels of greenhouse gases, but it doesn't impose such requirements for emissions generated from fossil fuels they drill, mine and ship elsewhere. That has allowed countries like the United States, Norway, Australia and others to say they are making progress toward international climate goals while also producing and exporting fossil fuels at breakneck pace, Bill Hare told Reuters.

Just like last year’s initial proposal, which was soundly rejected, this plan is “empty” on what climate analysts call “mitigation” or efforts to reduce emissions from or completely get off coal, oil and natural gas, Bill Hare told PBS.

On Friday 22 Nov at COP29, Bill Hare told AP "no one's ever totally happy with the text. But the differences are so big they’ll have to be bridged before you have any chance of agreement here.”