Climate Analytics Press Releases

• Published on May 30, 2024 - 15:18 GMT

  

  Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

  Our own calculations show that successive governments have kept increasing their projections for how much carbon they believe the land use sector is storing. That’s happened every year since 2018. If you keep changing how big a carbon sink land use is, you …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 30, 2024 - 15:18 GMT

  

  Developing countries need support adapting to deadly heat

  This article was first published on Climate Home News on 30 May 2024. Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh has been sweltering under 52°C heat in recent days. Not in the news however is that wet-bulb temperatures in the region – a more accurate indicator …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 23, 2024 - 08:43 GMT

  

  How Africa can be better represented in the next cycle of IPCC reports and why it matters

  Governments will gather in Bulgaria over July and August to agree on the schedule for the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle, shaping its work for the next five to seven years. Yet despite its climate vulnerabilities, Africa was highly underrepresented in the …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 22, 2024 - 12:18 GMT

  

  South Korea’s energy trap: Government-funded dead end fossil fuel investments

  When the war in Ukraine upended the global energy supply in 2022, South Korea suddenly found itself competing for natural gas. Cut off from Russia’s supply, an energy-starved Europe began buying up supplies worldwide. In 2022 alone, South Korea saw …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 17, 2024 - 19:23 GMT

  

  Azerbaijan pursues clean energy to export more ‘god-given’ gas to Europe

  Baku rolls out its first large-scale renewables, but a rise in clean energy does not mean leaving fossil fuels in the ground An ocean of 570,000 solar panels stretches out as far as the eye can see across an arid landscape an hour’s drive from Azerbaijan’s …

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• Published on May 15, 2024 - 11:12 GMT

  

  German–Caribbean climate talks highlights plans for Just Transition

  Temperatures in the Caribbean continue to reach record breaking highs, and the impacts of climate change are becoming an increasingly prominent concern for regional governments. To shed light on this issue and explore opportunities for increased support, …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 13, 2024 - 10:50 GMT

  

  Tripling renewable energy capacity is possible, but 2023 didn’t help

  At COP28, over 130 countries agreed to the historical goal of tripling renewable energy capacity and doubling energy efficiency by 2030. If nations succeed, the world should have at least 11 TW of clean energy capacity by the decade’s end. Such a move will …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 13, 2024 - 10:50 GMT

  

  Australia backs gas beyond 2050 despite climate fears

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• Published on May 10, 2024 - 10:00 GMT

  

  Why Japan is struggling to kick its coal dependency

  Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel by far, producing more particulate air pollution and global warming gasses than any other, per unit of energy. But for some countries — even ones with the money and the motivation to go green — coal can be hard to quit. …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 6, 2024 - 10:48 GMT

  

  BBC World interviews Dr Fahad Saeed on the extreme heatwave in Asia

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 6, 2024 - 10:48 GMT

  

  Earth Virtualisation Engines (EVE)

  To manage Earth in the Anthropocene, new tools, new institutions, and new forms of international cooperation will be required. The authors propose to make an Earth Virtualization Engine (EVE) as an international federation of centers of excellence to …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on May 3, 2024 - 16:53 GMT

  

  Pre-monsoon heatwave in South Asia breaking records due to climate change

  South and Southeast Asia are experiencing another record heatwave, with forecasts anticipating that the heatwave will continue in certain parts of the region before rain or cool winds bring a respite from the heat In contrast in April, Western South Asian …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 30, 2024 - 18:24 GMT

  

  Proposed 2035 coal phase out date for the G7 too late to limit warming to 1.5°C

  G7 Ministers have trailed a new commitment to phase out unabated coal in the first half of the 2030s, ahead of the close of the Climate, Energy and Environment meeting on Tuesday This is especially significant for Japan, as its government has not yet set a …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 30, 2024 - 16:32 GMT

  

  The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035 – with a catch

  CNN  —  The Group of Seven nations announced Tuesday its member nations would end the use of “unabated” coal by 2035, but left the door open for countries to stretch that deadline in particular contexts. In a communiqué published after talks between energy …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 30, 2024 - 11:10 GMT

  

  Is the G7 doing enough on climate change?

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• Published on April 30, 2024 - 11:10 GMT

  G7 countries agree to end use of coal power by 2035, says UK minister

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• Published on April 29, 2024 - 15:34 GMT

  

  Heavy precipitation hitting vulnerable communities in the UAE and Oman becoming an increasing threat as the climate warms

  From April 14–15 2024, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the northern parts of Oman were hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall causing massive disruption in infrastructure and public life in the area and leading to at least 20 fatalities in Oman and four in …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 25, 2024 - 13:30 GMT

  

  Climate change-fueled tropical cyclones have already reduced Filipino household incomes by 7%

  New research: climate change-fueled tropical cyclones have already reduced Filipino household incomes by 7% 25 April: Household incomes have dropped by 7% on average across the Philippines due to climate-driven tropical cyclones, according to a new peer- …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 25, 2024 - 13:30 GMT

  

  We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized

  Earth is coming out of the hottest year on record, amplifying the destruction from hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and drought. The oceans remain alarmingly warm, triggering the fourth global coral bleaching event in history. Concentrations of heat- …

  Distribution channels: Environment
• Published on April 24, 2024 - 19:32 GMT

  

  Climate change-fueled tropical cyclones have already reduced Filipino household incomes by 7%

  New research: climate change-fueled tropical cyclones have already reduced Filipino household incomes by 7% 25 April: Household incomes have dropped by 7% on average across the Philippines due to climate-driven tropical cyclones, according to a new peer- …

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