Compounding the acceleration are insidious feedback mechanisms that PIK's research illuminates as potential game-changers. A March 2025 study from the institute projects that even low-to-moderate emission scenarios could unleash amplified heating over the next millennium.
In 2025, global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are projected to reach an unprecedented level, underscoring the widening gap between climate ambition and reality.
UNEP has found that fewer than one-third of the countries party to the Paris Agreement submitted updated climate commitments by the end of September 2025.
UN agencies responded on Tuesday to President Trump’s executive orders ending US membership of the World Health Organization and its adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement, highlighting the massive potential negative impact on public health and efforts to curb global warming.
Countries that are the least responsible for climate change are expected to suffer the greatest economic and environmental impacts as they have the fewest resources “to adapt to its impacts.”
China has placed food security at the centre of its national strategy, setting a binding target to raise annual grain production capacity to 725 million metric tonnes by 2030.
The appeal came during a high-level meeting with visiting Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh on 9 September 2026, the first such visit by an Indian defence minister in 38 years.
China has placed food security at the centre of its national strategy, setting a binding target to raise annual grain production capacity to 725 million metric tonnes by 2030.