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“Turkey’s current policy plans are consistent with the 1.5 degree target and could easily accelerate further to reach the required pace,” said Neil Grant. “The country is in a great position to benefit from abundant renewable energy resources.”

"To really define a peak, we need to see emissions fall and continue to fall, driven by long-term structural change such as the rollout of renewables and the decline of fossil fuels," Neil Grant told ABC News.

Normally, researchers would need five years of emissions data to confidently assess whether China’s recent emissions decline is temporary or the beginning of a long-term trend, Bill Hare told Nature News. “There are very, very big uncertainties.”

Bill Hare comments on the lack of political progress on climate targets since 2021 and COP26.

New study shows that as of 2020, methane levels were still on the rise. Bill Hare told AP that to hold global warming to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit, we need to cut carbon dioxide emissions nearly in half and methane by more than one-third.

Fahad Saeed spoke to Al Jazeera about why Karachi hasn’t often been hit by cyclones. “During this time of the year, we have strong easterlies in the upper atmosphere. These are the winds coming from east to west in the middle to upper atmosphere pass over the region of the Arabian Sea and discourage the formation of cyclones or the conversion of depressions into cyclones", he said.

"The need for loss and damage finance is here today, and costs will only rise without urgent climate action now," Rosanne Martyr told Phys.org. "In 2020, some Pacific Island nations including Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia lost more than one percent of their GDP to rising seas."

The 1.5°C National Pathway Explorer tool shows that under current policies, South Africa will not reach its climate goals. To reach the goal of 1.5°C, emissions will need to fall significantly.

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.