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“Climate reparations are absolutely essential. It is not about voluntary contributions anymore.” - Rueanna Haynes

“Our current levels of global warming at 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) have already caused dangerous and widespread losses and damages to nature and to billions of people... Losses and damages are unavoidable and unequally distributed” with poorer nations, the elderly, the poor and vulnerable hit harder. - Climate Analytics scientist Adelle Thomas

"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

Across virtually every sector, the decarbonisation of the global economy is unfolding far too slowly to avoid climate catastrophe. In regards to climate finance, "Governments and private institutions are failing to deliver on the Paris Agreement's goals of aligning financial flows with the 1.5C limit," says Claire Fyson, an analyst at Climate Analytics.

Bill Hare and Fahad Saeed comment on the UN Secretary-General's speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, where he called for fossil fuel producers to pay a windfall tax to those impacted by climate change.

Dr Fahad Saeed spoke to CNN about the floods in Pakistan and how, like so many developing nations, the need to to bring more people out of poverty is endangered in the midst of back-to-back extreme weather events with such little financial support from abroad.

In this Associated Press article, our Regional Lead for Caribbean Science, Dr Adelle Thomas is interviewed for her opinion on a new study from Dartmouth, UK, which calculated the economic impacts on other nations due to climate change caused by richer nations.

Richard Klein and our Head of Adaptation and Vulnerability, Tabea Lissner, emphasise the cascading consequences of extreme weather around the world, and the lack of finance to build resilience.

At the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June, LDCs will demand stronger commitments to limit warming to 1.5 degrees, easier access to financial resources, and additional means to address loss and damage. Our Manjeet Dhakal speaks about how G20 nations have dragged their feet on these issues.

Our Head of LDC Support Team, Manjeet Dhakal, is interviewed in this piece from The Khatmandu Post on the latest IPCC WGII report and its implications for climate funding and governance in Nepal.