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As climate change continues to accelerate, its multifaceted impacts will affect societies across the globe in increasingly complex and uneven ways. New study provides a comprehensive assessment of how socioeconomic factors interact with climate vulnerability up to the year 2100.

Bill Hare said the court had reinforced the legal weight behind existing agreements. “States have a responsibility to regulate private activity within their jurisdictions and they have a responsibility to all other states for the consequences of actions taken,” he said. “This together means that countries have an obligation to limit, reduce and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel production.”

Migration visas for Tuvalu citizens at risk of sea level rise "are the repercussion of our failure to meet the Paris Agreement's targets," Dr Rosanne Martyr told the BBC.

The recent case against utility RWE shows the ‘polluter pays’ principle could become a reality.

New study links emissions from particular companies to damages from specific extreme weather events, furthering the field of attribution science. “I think this is going to be the future of climate litigation,” Bill Hare told NewScientist.

At the Coming Back from COP29 summit, hosted on December 17 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Climate Analytics Caribbean shared critical analysis of key issues, including finance, adaptation, loss and damage and just transition.

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.

"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.

“This affirms what small island developing states have been saying for a while. We are getting wet, we are flooded. We are losing land. This is not just an isolated cry or a political ploy” - Dr Rosanne Martyr-Koller on new research on exposure to rising seas.