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In dicht besiedelten Gebieten wie Berlin sind die Menschen schon heute erheblichen gesundheitlichen Risiken durch Hitzestress ausgesetzt. Carl-Friedrich Schleußner spricht mit dem RBB über unsere Forschung zu Klimafolgen am Beispiel von Hitzestress in der Metropolregion Berlin/Brandenburg.

The UK outperformed its legal target to cut emissions between 2018 and 2022. Dr Neil Grant tells BBC World News that using this result to carry forward any surplus from the current targets in to the next period is a really risky idea.

Neil Grant told Climate Home News we must take “capacity to transition” into account when thinking about who should be the last producers.

“The risk of such an initiative is that it elevates SRM [Solar Radiation Management] as a real solution and contributes to the normalisation of something that is still very premature and hypothetical from a scientific perspective”, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner told Climate Home News. “You need to be careful about unintended consequences and consider the risks of opening a Pandora’s box”.

Sub-Saharan Africa would need to boost investments from $20 billion in 2023 to $100 billion a year by 2030 to contribute to the COP28 goal of tripling renewable energy installations by 2030.

Neil Grant told Energy World "$2 trillion a year sounds like a cost, but it’s really a choice. We’re set to invest over $6 trillion in fossil fuels over this decade – more than enough to close the tripling investment gap. Faced with this choice, I’d go with the safest, best value option – renewables".

"Numerous studies have shown we'll have a big surplus in fossil fuels if planned projects go ahead, creating huge risks for not only the climate but also the economy," Claire Fyson told the BBC.

"Cities are particularly susceptible to heat stress due to the heat island effect", Carl-Friedrich Schleussner told IDW. "In this study we look at the consequences of climate change on the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region, with a special focus on the effects of heat stress and the development of adaptation strategies."

Bill Hare told The Straits Times that the value of the longstanding rapport between Mr Kerry and Mr Xie cannot be undersold. He said there is “no doubt” that their mutual respect and informal discussions have been essential for much of the progress since 2021.

"It's an absolutely staggering increase at the very moment in which we should be reducing emissions.

"Depending upon the scale of the development, the NT's emissions would be increased by 75 to 360% [a year]" Bill Hare told ABC.