Media coverage

The Philippines is one of the most at-risk countries to extreme natural events and negative climate change impacts, writes Jose Manuel Romualdez, the Filipino Ambassador to the United States. He quotes from a recent Climate Analytics study that "even at the time that the Paris Agreement was signed, climate change was already reducing the average income of Filipino households”.

"As the IPCC reports showed, every degree of warming will lead to an exponential rise of floods and rainfall extremes across the country – and that's already happening in Nepal", Manjeet Dhakal spoke to Nepal Now: On the move podcast about the recent floods.

Bill Hare told AP the negotiation chiefs from the UAE, Azerbaijan and Brazil were big on soaring rhetoric, but their own nations’ actions fell far short.

“Turkey’s current policy plans are consistent with the 1.5 degree target and could easily accelerate further to reach the required pace,” said Neil Grant. “The country is in a great position to benefit from abundant renewable energy resources.”

The analysis found that just over 600 GW of wind and solar would need to be installed by 2030 (460 GW of solar and 150 GW of wind). At the current pace of rollout, India is projected to reach around 400 GW of wind and solar by 2030.

"To really define a peak, we need to see emissions fall and continue to fall, driven by long-term structural change such as the rollout of renewables and the decline of fossil fuels," Neil Grant told ABC News.

Normally, researchers would need five years of emissions data to confidently assess whether China’s recent emissions decline is temporary or the beginning of a long-term trend, Bill Hare told Nature News. “There are very, very big uncertainties.”

Bill Hare comments on the lack of political progress on climate targets since 2021 and COP26.

New study shows that as of 2020, methane levels were still on the rise. Bill Hare told AP that to hold global warming to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit, we need to cut carbon dioxide emissions nearly in half and methane by more than one-third.

Fahad Saeed spoke to Al Jazeera about why Karachi hasn’t often been hit by cyclones. “During this time of the year, we have strong easterlies in the upper atmosphere. These are the winds coming from east to west in the middle to upper atmosphere pass over the region of the Arabian Sea and discourage the formation of cyclones or the conversion of depressions into cyclones", he said.