Climate change,
across time and place.

Latest study / 2026-09-24

The moving target for clean power

How much of the change in fossil electricity generation is accounted for by total generation growth and changes in non-fossil output?

The heat a thermometer misses.

When national hot-day counts fall, do vulnerable groups necessarily experience less heatwave exposure?

The heat below the surface.

How do changes in ocean heat storage compare with surface-temperature variation over aligned, sufficiently long observation windows?

Two poles, different losses.

How do seasonal sea-ice changes differ between hemispheres when months, reference periods and measurement definitions are held consistent?

Less emitted. Still accumulating.

What accounts for the difference between annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions and the annual increase in atmospheric carbon?

What does a cooler year say about warming?

How does an annual temperature change compare with changes between complete decades in the same observational record?

How does heat change the capacity to work outdoors?

How do modeled heat-related labor-capacity losses differ across sectors and countries with different adaptation-readiness profiles?

Where do European weather losses and insurance gaps coincide?

How do reported economic losses and insured shares differ across European countries, and what remains hidden by national readiness scores?

How do historical emissions compare with present vulnerability?

Do countries' positions change when cumulative fossil CO2, current per-capita emissions and present vulnerability are considered separately?

Where does water stress coincide with food vulnerability?

Which countries combine high baseline water stress with vulnerable food systems, and how stable is that comparison across indicator choices?

Do stronger readiness scores coincide with health adaptation planning?

How do national adaptation-readiness profiles compare with reported health adaptation planning among countries covered by comparable survey rounds?

What does another half-degree mean for European summer heat?

How do regional summer-temperature and heat-extreme projections differ between global warming levels of 1.5, 2 and 3 degC?

Where could changing water stress challenge electricity systems?

Which countries combine projected changes in water stress with electricity mixes that warrant closer examination of water dependence?

Why does coastal planning need more than a 2100 endpoint?

How do observed global sea-level change and assessed longer-term commitment alter the questions asked of coastal infrastructure vulnerability?

Where could summer heat and drying intensify together?

Do Central European regional projections show concurrent shifts in summer heat and moisture conditions across the same models and scenarios?

How much does a remaining carbon budget depend on its assumptions?

How do published remaining-budget estimates vary with temperature limit, likelihood and assumptions about non-CO2 warming?

What pace of emissions reduction do assessed pathways imply?

How do recent global emissions changes compare with the reduction ranges in AR6 Table SPM.1 on a compatible accounting basis?

How does time above a warming level differ across scenarios?

What do compact global scenario trajectories show about the magnitude and duration of warming-level exceedance within their published time horizons?

Which German sectors account for the emissions change?

How are changes in Germany's reported greenhouse gas emissions distributed across sectors, gases and alternative reference years?

Does clean-energy finance reach the same regions as new capacity?

How does the regional distribution of tracked renewable-energy finance compare with the distribution of wind and solar capacity additions?

How much do headline carbon prices reveal about emissions coverage?

How do published carbon prices, covered emissions shares and sector coverage differ across national and regional pricing instruments?

How large are carbon-pricing revenues beside tracked climate investment?

What is the scale of reported carbon-pricing revenue relative to tracked climate-finance flows over genuinely comparable periods?

Does cleaner electricity coincide with lower air-pollution health burdens?

How do changes in fossil electricity generation compare with published air-pollution mortality estimates across a fixed country panel?

Does adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable regions?

How does the regional distribution of tracked adaptation finance compare with the distribution of country vulnerability within those regions?

What does the grant-and-debt mix reveal about adaptation finance?

How do the financial instruments used for tracked adaptation finance vary across reporting regions and their readiness profiles?