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With just weeks to go until the international climate conference, nations are stepping up to submit new climate targets for 2035. Experts weigh in what to expect for major emitters.

“We are in the foothills of an energy transition that is going to reshape fossil fuel demand,” said Dr Neil Grant. “But many governments are thinking in terms of a world where the energy transition happens very incrementally. There’s a lot of danger, [including that] the voice of the fossil fuel lobby only gets louder and holds us back from this change to a cleaner, better, greener economy. That would lead to climate chaos or significant negative economic impacts.”

Thomas Houlie told the ABC: "Publishing a weak target in the 60s [sends] a wrong signal to Pacific countries and also to voters that actually voted for stronger climate action earlier this year".

"I think it's a massive wake-up call for the political classes in Australia to really face up to the need to do something really serious about climate change," Bill Hare told ABC.

Dr Neil Grant spoke to Québec Science about the possibility that global greenhouse gas emissions will peak in 2025.

“Pakistan is right now in the reactionary mode,” Fahad Saeed told Inside Climate News. “It is unable to build its resilience.”

Senior Scientist Fahad Saeed told Der Spiegel that the recent floods in Pakistan are not an isolated incident, but a foretaste of what's to come. He explains why disasters are increasing and what the country urgently needs to change.

As climate change continues to accelerate, its multifaceted impacts will affect societies across the globe in increasingly complex and uneven ways. New study provides a comprehensive assessment of how socioeconomic factors interact with climate vulnerability up to the year 2100.

Australia is being urged to trace a pathway away from fossil fuel exports and temper its use of land carbon sequestration to meet emissions targets. With just a month to go before the federal government must reveal its 2035 emissions target and updated plans to contribute to global temperature goals, new report from Climate Analytics calls for a net emissions reduction target of 81 per cent below 2005 levels by 2035.

Climate scientists have warned the Australian government against relying too heavily on land-based carbon offsets in pursuit of its net zero goals, and say political timidity is the only thing standing between the government and a 2035 emissions target higher than 70 per cent.