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The glacial lake flood that hit the Nepali village of Thame last week illustrates how vulnerable communities continue to bear the brunt of climate extremes – and of the need for global action to limit warming to 1.5°C, writes Manjeet Dhakal.

New study suggesting that implementing climate policies effectively is the most important factor in the feasibility of limiting global warming to 1.5°C "needs to be interpreted very cautiously", Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner told Carbon Brief.

Australia’s coal and gas exports cause more climate damage than those from any other country bar Russia, according to a new study by Climate Analytics that argues the country is undermining a global agreement to transition away from fossil fuels.

Adaptation finance challenges and solutions shared by regional experts in Francophone Africa - lessons from Climate Analytics Africa's event series on climate finance.

Sub-Saharan Africa has immense potential for renewable energy, including solar and wind, Bill Hare told Africa Rendez-vous. "However, the high cost of capital and lack of adequate infrastructure are holding back the development of these projects. We need to create public-private partnerships and further involve multilateral development banks to provide financing on preferential terms,” he said.

In 1969, founding chair of the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Reg Sprigg wrote that there was "considerable evidence to indicate that man’s pollution of the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, is already [happening],” leading to "increased CO₂ in the atmosphere warming the earth’s climate". Bill Hare told The Saturday Paper that Sprigg's observations were “just another piece of evidence that the fossil fuel industry knew how serious the climate change problem was and that they were the main driver of it”.

The report, Climate Change Impacts in Kenya: What Climate Change means for a country and its people, provides crucial and timely insights into Kenya’s climate crisis and offers recommendations on locally-led adaptation and resilience efforts.

Nepal's over-reliance on hydroelectricity at the cost of solar power is high-risk and high-cost. Manjeet Dhakal told the “We talk about how heavy rains will affect our hydropower plants, but we haven’t even begun to think about increasing temperature affecting water availability, making the case for energy diversification beyond hydropower that much stronger.”

“We are still looking at the numbers from last year, but I think it is happened. If we have peaked in emissions from fossil fuels, and I think we have, this is a historic moment,” Bill Hare told the Sydney Morning Herald. He said the turning point is significant because it demonstrates that a generation of difficult diplomacy and politics, of innovation and inventiveness, is starting to pay off in measurable change.

"Adaptation options have limits", Fahad Saeed told the New York Times. At 1.5 degrees of warming, the risk of heat stroke on the hajj would increase five times compared to a world without warming, he said. At two degrees the risk doubles to ten times higher.