2024: A Year In Climate Change

2024: a year of shambolic international negotiations, and terrible headlines (with positive caveats). Maximise your charitable end-of-year giving at https://givewell.org and use code simonclark to get your donation matched.

The past 12 months have been extremely eventful in the climate space. For the first time ever, the world is over 1.5C warmer than preindustrial times (though this won't last), emissions have climbed ever higher, and international negotiations perhaps reached their apex of ineffectiveness. But among all these negative headlines there are causes for optimism. Not enough to make the year anything other than a disaster, but enough to hold onto.

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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic
Some stock footage courtesy of Getty.
Edited by Luke Negus.

Reviewing the last 12 months of climate news. What happened with climate change in 2024? Did we hit 1.5C? Are emissions going up? What will happen with Trump? All these questions and more answered in this roundup of the year.

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