Recent severe weather and reports on climate targets have brought more people here seeking reassurance about our efforts to address climate change. Please use this weekly thread for those discussions.

Climate change remains a serious, compounding problem, but our response is increasingly making a measurable difference.

Climate Action Tracker's current-policy projection improved from around 3.6°C of warming by 2100 in its 2015 assessment to around 2.6°C in November 2025 .

The 4°C world quietly stopped being the forecast .

That represents an enormous amount of potential harm avoided, and further progress can change the outlook again.

This week brought particularly encouraging evidence that the transition is starting to affect the actual consumption of fossil fuels, with China recording its largest quarterly emissions decline since the pandemic and electric vehicles reaching remarkable market shares across several major economies.

China's emissions fall 3.1% as fossil fuel consumption declines

China's…