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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.

"The Hajj has operated in a hot climate for over a millennium, but the climate crisis is exacerbating these conditions," said Carl-Friedrich Schleussner told the BBC.

"The authorities in Saudi Arabia are going for adaption options - but adaptation options have their limits," Fahad Saeed told Channel 4 News. "So unless we stop emissions and abide by the Paris Agreement I'm afraid that we will continue to see such calamities."

Climate Analytics Africa organised a series of strategic civil society dialogues to support the co-development of a long-term low-carbon and climate-resilient development vision for Togo.

"Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil exporter... it is also one of the hottest countries in the world," Fahad Saeed told the Jakarta Post. The kingdom needs "to make this transformation of their economy towards greener options, towards more renewables, because it is also host of this very important haj". If conditions worsen, there is a risk that "we are going to lose some of the rituals" seen as essential to the pilgrimage, he said.