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“We should be focused on real reductions in emissions, rather than engaging in a counting game,” Bill Hare told The Guardian.

“Winning slowly is the same as losing when it comes to climate change,” said report author Dr Neil Grant. “And so I think we are at risk of a lost decade.”

Neil Grant told NPR "There is still real potential to see deep emissions reductions in the coming years."

Sofía Gonzales-Zuñiga appeared on the Camino a la COP29 podcast to talk about the process of updating Nationally Determined Contributions and why it's important to ensure that countries really increase their ambition.

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."