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“If [offsets are] not real, additional and permanent – or if they’re used to continue fossil fuel emissions – then they will make climate change worse rather than better.” - Bill Hare

Experts and activists doubt the real capacity of governments and companies to deploy the four billion dollars a year that will be needed until 2030 to advance on the path towards energy neutrality.

Despite rays of hope, including fresh US legislation and a change of government in Brazil, progress in 2022 has been slow - with governments around the world distracted by global energy and financial crises. This article looks at seven key nations to ask who is leading the way and who is dragging their feet.

"We are now in a moment where geopolitics and energy security issues are combining to really hammer home the benefits of cheap renewables, yet we are still seeing many of these governments turning to fossil fuels as the solution." - Bill Hare

Intense storms are becoming more common due to warmer oceans from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses. In order to mitigate damage from future natural disasters, we need to curtail warming at 1.5C and support people on the front lines of climate change.

Climate Analytics Caribbean, along with the Ministry of Planning and Development and the UN Development Programme, held a workshop in anticipation of COP27 entitled "Prelude to COP27: How Trinidad and Tobago Can Lead the Region In Raising Resiliency".

Emissions are still rising but they need to fall 45% by 2030. Claire Fyson of Climate Analytics highlights that we are "not moving fast enough."

“The report confirms the utterly glacial pace of climate action, despite the looming precipice of climate tipping points we’re approaching,” - Bill Hare

"The G20 is responsible for three-quarters of the world’s emissions. We are now in a moment where geopolitics and energy security issues are combining to really hammer home the benefits of cheap renewables." Bill Hare comments on fossil fuels subsidies.