By de-risking green innovations and opening new market opportunities, ICF can also drive exports, jobs and private investment while supporting adaption and mitigation in recipient countries.

While the Iran crisis is exposing the risks of imported fossil fuels, Bangladesh is responding by securing more LNG and doubling down on fossil-fuel infrastructure.

Climate policy and advances in renewables mean RCP8.5 – a highest-emissions scenario – is no longer plausible, but science shows that ambitious action is still needed to avoid 'worst-case' impacts.

In this month's oil and gas news: how nations, markets and unlikely climate champions are acting after 6 months of the US-Iran war.

Temporary exceedance of the 1.5°C warming threshold is now inevitable, with locked-in warming reaching at least 1.7°C. Research emphasises that the extent, duration and impacts of this overshoot depend strictly on immediate climate action.