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While global climate talks, policies and initiatives are progressive on paper, many pledges are voluntary and lack enforcement. "This year’s new round of NDCs is an opportunity for governments to show whether these voluntary pledges will actually drive ambition and action, or be remembered as political and diplomatic posturing,” said Thomas Houlie.

Despite endorsing multiple energy-related pledges, the Philippines remains highly dependent on coal while lagging behind in its deployment of renewable energy.

Report from IRENA finds 92.5% of electricity installed in 2024 came from renewables.If renewables grew 15% in 2024, "think how much faster they could grow with the full backing of comprehensive, credible and ambitious climate policies”, Dr Neil Grant told AP News.

"Renewable methanol will play a key role in the immediate term as a scalable zero-emission fuel," Michael Petroni told European Energy Innovation. Petroni said Europe is likely to be "heavily reliant on China" for building methanol-enabled vessels as its maritime industry sails towards its net-zero goal.

Bill Hare spoke to 3CR radio on why fracking poses a serious risk to our climate.

At the Re-Energise Caribbean: Clean Energy Catalyst Workshops on Friday 14th March – organised by Climate Analytics Caribbean – participants from across the region met to strategise solutions that can create a more enabling environment for transformative renewable energy innovations.

"From the science, we've known for a very long time that even limiting warming to 1.5C global average mean is going be really bad for our reefs," Bill Hare told AAP following a coral bleaching event off Australia's Kimberley Coast. "We're going to lose a very large fraction of our tropical reefs."

Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets. "The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance," Bill Hare told Reuters.

“Trump is going to make the job of meeting our climate goals a lot harder,” says Bill Hare. Initial analysis from the Climate Action Tracker suggests that Trump's policies could raise cumulative US emissions by 2–4 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030.