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At the Re-Energise Caribbean: Clean Energy Catalyst Workshops on Friday 14th March – organised by Climate Analytics Caribbean – participants from across the region met to strategise solutions that can create a more enabling environment for transformative renewable energy innovations.

Many of the world's biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets. "The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance," Bill Hare told Reuters.

“Trump is going to make the job of meeting our climate goals a lot harder,” says Bill Hare. Initial analysis from the Climate Action Tracker suggests that Trump's policies could raise cumulative US emissions by 2–4 billion tonnes of CO2 by 2030.

Thomas Houlie told Sea News that the method for calculating methane emissions from ships is flawed as methane emission ratios measures used by maritime regulators do not capture actual methane emissions.

"This is going to cause a major problem for the clean tech industry in the US", Bill Hare told DW News. "There could be USD$50-80 billion of lost economic opportunities for the US."

Trump is taking aim at appliance conservation standards to boost water flow. Thomas Houlie told AP News “industries and private sectors see it (energy efficiency) as adding more constraints on them. They tend to overlook the benefits that will be gained from the measures.”

According to the 1.5°C national pathway explorer, Australia's 2030 goal should be 57-67% below 2005 levels to align with the 1.5°C temperature limit outlined in the Paris Agreement.

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.

Dr Neil Grant spoke to the Washington Post about the need for China's peak emissions to be followed by a steep decline.

The Global Mitigation Potential Atlas is being extended to include countries beyond Southeast Asia, enabling it to model potential cross-regional partnerships.