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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more