The Upper Midwest, including states like Iowa, faced devastating flooding in 2024, which was categorized as a billion-dollar disaster.

Pakistan's northern areas like Gilgit-Baltistan experienced extreme cold and heavy snow in the winter season of 2024-2025.

Brazil held the G20 Presidency in 2024, focusing on fighting hunger, climate change, and reforming global governance.

The Amazon basin experienced one of its most severe droughts on record, isolating communities, killing wildlife, and disrupting critical river transport.

The ICJ held hearings in 2024 and was expected to issue an advisory opinion in 2025 clarifying the legal obligations of states to protect the climate system.

The UK officially withdrew from the Energy Charter Treaty in 2024, following other European nations, because the treaty protected fossil fuel investments and hindered the net-zero transition.

The Zero Debris Charter is an initiative facilitated by the European Space Agency to commit nations and companies to becoming debris-neutral in space by 2030.

The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) targets commodities like cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya, and wood to ensure they are not produced on deforested land.

Hurricane Beryl was an unusually strong and early Category 5 storm that caused widespread devastation across the Caribbean in June/July 2024.

Typhoon Kong-Rey was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted the Philippines and Taiwan in late October 2024.