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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01993-5 Meeting the Paris Agreement targets requires deep emissions reductions supported by a scale-up in carbon dioxide removal. However, current country-reported mitigation pledges are off track to meet carbon dioxide removal needs, unless countries dramatically reduce emissions consistent with low-energy-demand scenarios.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01984-6 Carbon dioxide removals (CDR) have been integrated into country-submitted reports under the Paris Agreement. However, this Analysis finds a gap between levels of CDR in these national proposals and the scenarios limiting global warming to the 1.5 °C target.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 30 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02001-6 Russian collaboration loss risks permafrost carbon emissions network   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02000-7 In this Perspective, the authors develop a risk assessment framework for forest microbiomes under climate change that unites microbial and forest ecology. They define processes that amplify or buffer microbial sensitivity and exposure risk and feedbacks that mediate impacts on microbial communities.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02004-3 Methane emissions from abandoned mines have been underestimated in emissions inventories even though they may become a dominant source of emissions as coal is phased out. Using a detailed bottom-up dataset, the authors find that a strategy targeting the closure of gas-rich mines could have a…

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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01996-2 In this Perspective, the authors develop an integrated framework to understand and predict the joint impacts of climate change and urbanization on biodiversity and ecosystems. They review examples of interacting impacts and present opportunities for future research.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 26 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01994-4 The authors perform a meta-analysis to assess current and future capacities of healthcare systems under climate change. They summarize the key focus points of current literature and highlight the need for effective policies, trained workforces and redesigned infrastructure to meet future burdens.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01992-6 Residents of informal settlements suffer from extreme weather due to their precarious living environment. Now, findings show that extreme weather event thresholds do not fully capture the negative impacts experienced by women in Nairobi, Kenya.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01995-3 Recent policy progress in the United States shows how populism can help advance climate goals, but at a steep cost. Avoiding setbacks will require curbing protectionist reflexes and harnessing opportunities for global cooperation.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 23 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01983-7 Defining thresholds for extreme weather events is important for adaptation but often ignores impacts on climate-vulnerable communities. This research finds current practices do not capture experiences of women in informal settlements and self-reported impact data could help to address the issue.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01978-4 Climate change will affect the adoption of residential rooftop solar photovoltaics by changing the patterns of both electricity generation and demand. This research projects that climate change will increase the future value and optimal capacity of household rooftop solar across the United States.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02003-4 Global projections of the economic impacts of climate change have usually focused on rising average temperatures. Now, two studies depict more complex and gloomier scenarios by incorporating variability in temperature and precipitation.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01990-8 Existing global economic damage assessments only focus on the impacts induced by annual temperature changes. Including variability and extremes of temperature and precipitation in climate damage projections raises global gross domestic product losses and exacerbates global disparities of economic damage.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01991-7 International cooperation is essential to mitigate climate change, yet it comes with challenges that often hinder countries from achieving their climate targets. Now, a study shows that timely monitoring and review of national climate mitigation efforts are essential for the Paris Agreement to accomplish its targets.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01977-5 The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen marked an important step in global climate action with parties submitting 2020 mitigation targets. However, this retrospective study shows that many countries either have failed to meet their targets or have reduced their emissions through carbon leakage.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01975-7 As climate change redirects migration patterns of marine species towards the extremes of their geographic range, sharks find themselves stunned by rising cold upwelling currents.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01966-8 The authors link intensification of cold upwelling in two western boundary currents to the observed death of marine organisms, and upwelling avoidance behaviour in bull sharks. They raise concerns of increased risk of cold-mortality events for climate migrants at their poleward distribution limits.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 15 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01989-1 The authors use individual-based models to assess the contribution of frugivore-mediated seed dispersal to forest restoration. They show that the movement of large birds—which disperse seeds with higher carbon storage potential—is limited in landscapes with low forest cover (   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 12 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01979-3 Climate change can have profound impacts on mental health, yet few therapists receive training on how to talk to their clients about this issue. This Comment explores strategies for therapists to best support clients in climate distress.   

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 April 2024; doi:10.1038/s41558-024-01976-6 The degree to which changes in marine organisms due to warming can influence tropical cyclones is not well known. Here the authors show that changing chlorophyll patterns can lead to more landfalling tropical cyclones in East Asia.