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"I wouldn't panic about it right now," Bill Hare told SBS News. Some years are warmer than the long-term temperature trend, and others were cooler, and the natural variability in the climate system appeared to be "quite big", he said. "The thing that people need to understand is the long-term trend is alarming — and that's not going to slow down until we reduce emissions".

The Wall Street Journal quotes from our G7 brief that none of the G7 members are on track to meet emissions reduction targets for 2030.

"Generally, loss and damage in the Caribbean is reported as economic costs associated with a climate-related event, mainly hurricanes and floods," Sasha Jattansingh told the St. Vincent Times. "Many other climate hazards considered important by SIDS tend to go unreported, especially slow onset events such as drought, sea level rise, sargassum blooms or coral bleaching," she added.

The Australian government’s Future Made in Australia plan aims to turn the country into a “renewable energy superpower” by investing in homegrown green industries. "There is a very deep contradiction at the heart of the two policies," Bill Hare told the BBC, "the Future Made in Australia [plan] is playing second fiddle to the government’s gas strategy.”

This article in Tagesspiegel about how urban development promotes climate injustice includes data from our study on the effects of heat stress on the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region.

“What we’re seeing is the development of a massive surplus capacity of LNG, compared to what’s needed for keeping warming to 1.5 degrees,” Bill Hare told Grist.

Ramping up renewables won’t make a dent in emissions unless they displace fossil fuels in the system,” says our CEO Bill Hare on Azerbaijan pursing clean energy at home while expanding fossil gas production for export to Europe.

"In international climate change negotiations, Just Transition has experienced a major evolution," Rueanna Haynes told the St. Vincent Times. It now "acknowledges that each country will take a different approach in line with its sustainable development priorities", she said.

To do their part to limit warming to 1.5°C, G7 countries should aim for a 58% emissions reduction target by 2030, Neil Grant told EnergyTracker. “These economies, who make up 38% of the world’s GDP, are not pulling their weight: they have both the technology and the finance to up their game," he said.

Japan’s current policies would only bring coal’s electricity share down to 19% by 2030. In order to meet the Paris climate agreement target of limiting warming this century to less than 1.5°C, Japan has to move far more quickly than the G7's promise to "phase out existing unabated coal power generation” by 2035. “2035 is too late,” Jane Ellis told Vox.