Ten new insights in climate science 2025- publication
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Interdisciplinary understanding is vital for delivering sound climate policy advice.
However, navigating the ever-growing and increasingly diverse scholarly literature on climate change is challenging for any individual researcher. This annual synthesis highlights and explains recent advances across a variety of fields of climate change research. In 2026, the 10 insights focus on:
(1) the record-warmth of 2023/2024 and the elevated Earth energy imbalance;
(2) acceleration of ocean warming and intensifying marine heatwaves;
(3) northern land carbon sinks under strain;
(4) reinforcing feedback between biodiversity loss and climate change;
(5) accelerated depletion of groundwater;
(6) global dengue incidence;
(7) global income losses and labour productivity declines;
(8) strategic scaling of CDR;
(9) integrity challenges in carbon credit markets and emerging responses; and
(10) effective policy mixes for emissions reductions.
The insights have been written to be accessible to researchers from different fields, serving as entry-points to specific topics, as well as providing an overview of the evolving landscape of climate change research. In the final section, the insights are used to develop overarching policy-relevant messages. This paper provides the basis for a science-policy report that was shared with all Party delegations ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
Interdisciplinary understanding is vital for delivering sound climate policy advice.
However, navigating the ever-growing and increasingly diverse scholarly literature on climate change is challenging for any individual researcher. This annual synthesis highlights and explains recent advances across a variety of fields of climate change research. In 2026, the 10 insights focus on:
(1) the record-warmth of 2023/2024 and the elevated Earth energy imbalance;
(2) acceleration of ocean warming and intensifying marine heatwaves;
(3) northern land carbon sinks under strain;
(4) reinforcing feedback between biodiversity loss and climate change;
(5) accelerated depletion of groundwater;
(6) global dengue incidence;
(7) global income losses and labour productivity declines;
(8) strategic scaling of CDR;
(9) integrity challenges in carbon credit markets and emerging responses; and
(10) effective policy mixes for emissions reductions.
The insights have been written to be accessible to researchers from different fields, serving as entry-points to specific topics, as well as providing an overview of the evolving landscape of climate change research. In the final section, the insights are used to develop overarching policy-relevant messages. This paper provides the basis for a science-policy report that was shared with all Party delegations ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil.
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Wereldwijde recordwarmte 2023, 2024 en 2025: versnelde opwarming, zon, El Niño en schonere scheepvaart
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