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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work to identify the complex and little-known barriers preventing action to halt or reduce further climate change, ranging from legal obstacles to subsidies for fossil fuel companies.

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A photo looking up from close by at an oil drilling platform, with blue sky behind.

Hidden handbrakes for climate action and social justice hosted by SIDA

Event on 29 January 2025

Protester holding up a sign that show 1.5 degrees.

Only 13 countries submitted 2035 climate targets on time

11 February 2025

Cars stopped on the motorway. A digital sign reads "Extreme heat. Save power 4-9PM. Stay cool"

Hot cities: researching extreme heat in the world's biggest capital cities

23 July 2024

Thermometer showing 40+ degrees

52% jump in days over 35°C in world’s biggest capital cities

28 June 2024

Hidden handbrakes

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A photo looking up from close by at an oil drilling platform, with blue sky behind.

Hidden handbrakes for climate action and social justice hosted by SIDA

Event on 29 January 2025

Protester holding up a sign that show 1.5 degrees.

Only 13 countries submitted 2035 climate targets on time

Press release, 11 February 2025

Cars stopped on the motorway. A digital sign reads "Extreme heat. Save power 4-9PM. Stay cool"

Hot cities: researching extreme heat in the world's biggest capital cities

Article, 23 July 2024

Thermometer showing 40+ degrees

52% jump in days over 35°C in world’s biggest capital cities

Press release, 28 June 2024

A refinery under a clear blue night sky.

Hidden handbrakes: an Open Space conversation

Event on 25 June 2024

Mountainous grassland, with a glacier in the background.

Debt swaps could release $100 billion for climate action

Press release, 15 April 2024

Fish lot on a basket.

Harmful subsidies reduce effectiveness of fish poo as a carbon sink, analysis suggests

Press release, 26 February 2024

Head and shoulders photos of two people alongside the words 'podcast episode 25 and "Make Change Happen".

Hidden handbrakes – what’s holding back climate action?: Make Change Happen podcast episode 25

Article, 31 January 2024

Black polluting smoke billows from a ship.

Global Stocktake and Global Goal on Adaptation at COP28

Press release, 13 December 2023

A combine harvester working in a field.

Carbon-intensive ultra-processed ingredients subsidised by nearly $43 billion a year

Press release, 28 November 2023

Oil rigs in water with mountains in background.

Fossil fuel companies rake in $80 billion of taxpayers’ money through shadowy investment tribunals

Press release, 23 November 2023

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Investor-state dispute settlements: a hidden handbrake on climate action

Publication, 23 November 2023

Man standing next to a toppled tree in the middle of a road.

Private investors profiting from $200 billion of bond debt in climate-vulnerable developing countries

Press release, 05 October 2023

A woman on a protest march holds a sign above her head, saying: 'Act now or swim later'. The sign has a vivid red background.

Countries missing deadlines to submit climate plans more than half the time

Press release, 19 September 2023

A young woman arranges clothes on the clothesline of her house, which floats on water, while in the distance there is a built-up area and high-rise buildings.

UN publishes global stocktake report

Press release, 08 September 2023

A cement factory in the background covered by tree branches.

Hidden handbrakes: tracking the invisible barriers slowing climate action

Event on 22 September 2023

Woman walks on a flooded road.

Poorest countries spending billions more servicing debts than they receive to tackle climate change

Press release, 20 June 2023

A group of people sitting at desks in a room facing a panel

Hidden handbrakes – exposing the unseen blockers of climate action

Event on 30 June 2023

Aerial view of tropical forest

UK government responds to inquiry into debt in low-income countries

Press release, 07 June 2023

A herd of cattle standing on top of a dry grass field with smoky chimneys in the background

Climate action is being held back by ‘hidden handbrakes’

Insight, 18 May 2023

Person walks on arid soils

Exposing the ‘hidden handbrakes’ blocking action to halt climate change

Press release, 18 April 2023

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