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Ramping up renewables won’t make a dent in emissions unless they displace fossil fuels in the system,” says our CEO Bill Hare on Azerbaijan pursing clean energy at home while expanding fossil gas production for export to Europe.

"In international climate change negotiations, Just Transition has experienced a major evolution," Rueanna Haynes told the St. Vincent Times. It now "acknowledges that each country will take a different approach in line with its sustainable development priorities", she said.

To do their part to limit warming to 1.5°C, G7 countries should aim for a 58% emissions reduction target by 2030, Neil Grant told EnergyTracker. “These economies, who make up 38% of the world’s GDP, are not pulling their weight: they have both the technology and the finance to up their game," he said.

Japan’s current policies would only bring coal’s electricity share down to 19% by 2030. In order to meet the Paris climate agreement target of limiting warming this century to less than 1.5°C, Japan has to move far more quickly than the G7's promise to "phase out existing unabated coal power generation” by 2035. “2035 is too late,” Jane Ellis told Vox.

"Fossil gas is not a transition fuel. It’s one of the main contributors to global warming and has been the largest source of increases of CO2 [emissions] over the last decade," Bill Hare told the BBC.

Fahad Saeed appears live on BBC World commenting on the enduring, record-setting extreme heatwave in South and Southeast Asia.

“Many of these countries have already publicly committed to phase out dates ahead of 2030, and only have a small amount of coal capacity anyway,” Jane Ellis told CNN.

Countries that wish to demonstrate the ambition needed to limit warming to 1.5°C should take a tougher stance, Jane Ellis told the Financial Times.

"Every dollar spent propping up the fossil fuel industry is a dollar which could be spent on rolling out renewables. Every coal plant that continues to operate post-2030 is providing emissions which is going to continue to heat the planet", Neil Grant said on FORESIGHT Climate & Energy’s podcast The Jolt.

G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin today. According to our analysis, not one member of the group is on track to meet existing emission reduction targets for 2030.