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Rueanna Haynes spoke to the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian about her role speaking on behalf of small island states in international climate negotiations.

The IEA World Energy Outlook indicates that China’s emissions of planet-warming gases may peak by 2025, but “given the changes underway in China we think that might be a bit pessimistic,” Bill Hare told AP News. He said “there’s every chance” China’s emissions have already peaked in 2023, but more data is needed to be sure.

“In the short term, millions of people will be affected by increased food prices and damage to critical infrastructure and livelihoods,” Manjeet Dhakal, director of the Climate Analytics South Asia in Kathmandu, told the South China Morning Post. “In the long term, Nepal’s economic growth is likely to slow as resources are diverted from core budget allocations.”

"We find that 100 years of overshoot above 1.5C would commit about an additional 40 centimetres of sea level rise in the long run," Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner told the ABC. "For some low-lying places, this could well be the difference between having a possibility to adapt and having to ultimately concede and migrate."

This "does away with the notion that overshoot delivers a similar climate outcome" to a future where more was done earlier to curb global warming, said Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, who led the study co-authored by 30 scientists.

“Every degree of global warming is projected to cause an exponential increase in extreme daily rainfall,” Manjeet Dhakal told Mongabay. "Nepal must invest in early warning systems, climate-resilient infrastructure, and sustainable urban and rural planning."

The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries to extreme natural events and negative climate change impacts, writes Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Filipino Ambassador to the United States. He quotes from a recent Climate Analytics study that "even at the time that the Paris Agreement was signed, climate change was already reducing the average income of Filipino households”.

"As the IPCC reports showed, every degree of warming will lead to an exponential rise of floods and rainfall extremes across the country – and that's already happening in Nepal", Manjeet Dhakal spoke to Nepal Now: On the move podcast about the recent floods.

Bill Hare told AP the negotiation chiefs from the UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil were big on soaring rhetoric, but their own nations’ actions fell far short.

“Turkey’s current policy plans are consistent with the 1.5 degree target and could easily accelerate further to reach the required pace,” said Neil Grant. “The country is in a great position to benefit from abundant renewable energy resources.”