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"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."

An estimated 30,000 fish have washed up dead along Western Australia’s Pilbara coast. Bill Hare told the Guardian marine heatwaves were known to trigger “extreme low oxygen events, which then create a bigger environmental mess”, though it was not yet clear whether low oxygen contributed to the death of these fish.

Our report "The role of northern forests in limiting warming to 1.5°C" is cited in this long form piece from Reuters on the risks posed to Boreal forests.

"The timelines for these disasters are getting shorter," Jattansingh said. "You have a cycle of rebuilding, reconstruction, long-term recovery and so on — all for another event to happen."

Gas emissions are projected to increase by 2.4%, which Bill Hare describes as "really frustrating and concerning." "What's happening there is that gas is displacing renewable energy in places where renewables could be taken up," he said.

This guest post for Carbon Brief by the PROVIDE team examines what 1.5°C overshoot means for climate impacts and adaptation. It explains how our tool, the Climate risk dashboard, shows what overshoot really looks like for countries, regions and cities.

Rueanna Haynes speaks to Pod Save The World about the impacts of climate change on small island nations and vulnerable communities, and what’s at stake if the US abandons climate leadership. (Starts at 36min)

“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.