Media coverage

"The likelihood of becoming climate refugees is a fate that hangs over us, our children, and children’s children, if we do not accelerate climate action now.” - Rueanna Haynes

“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

Wealthy nations must do more to support small island nations in their climate adaptation efforts. Adelle Thomas and other experts speak of the dangers of even a small rise in temperatures for these at-risk nations.

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.

Fahad Saeed compares the 2010 crisis in Pakistan to this year's flooding, with climate change and political turmoil especially serving as compounding factors.

In a discussion about Pakistan's recent extreme weather, The New York Times spoke with Fahad Saeed about the scale of the damage and how to address the cause and responsibility.

Dr Fahad Saeed is interview by German news site taz on the devastating floods in Pakistan.

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.