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Electric vehicles, data centres, manufacturing and hot temperatures boosting electricity demand to power air conditioning are all reasons why fossil fuel emissions have continued to rise despite the massive build-out of renewables in 2024, says Neil Grant. “Most people have been caught a bit surprised by the level of electricity demand this year”, he says.

If Trump pulls out of the Paris Agreement and the rest of the world keeps moving forward, "the US is going to lose export opportunities, it's going to lose investment opportunities abroad," Bill Hare told the BBC.

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“It’s symptomatic of the lack of political will to act. There’s no sense of urgency,” Bill Hare told AP. He said this explains “the absolute mess we’re finding ourselves in.”

“We have seen that the $100 billion goal was not sufficient", Dr Fahad Saeed told Al Jazeera. "Not only the amount but also the quality of the support that was provided.”

“India’s situation is actually highlighting the complexity of energy transition,” says Nandini Das told the Financial Times.

“It's a game with high stakes,” Bill Hare told The Telegraph. “Right now the fate of the planet depends very much on what we're able to pull off in the next five or 10 years.”

It's "very risky, I think, for the US to change track away from clean energy and clean tech, because that's the way the world is going," Bill Hare said.

Donald Trump’s re-election to the White House is a major setback for climate action but ultimately it’s the US that could end up losing out, as the rest of the world will move forward without it, writes Bill Hare on The Guardian.

Bill Hare told Climate Home News “the election of a climate denier to the US Presidency is extremely dangerous for the world”.