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To achieve the Paris climate goals, the private sector and sub-national governments need to fill the void left by unambitious national government efforts.
Nature Climate Change has asked Polina Ermolaeva and Irina Kuznetsova, Midori Aoyagi, Shah Md Atiqul Haq and Shih-Yun Kuo to share their insights about public perceptions of climate change in Russia, Japan, Bangladesh and Taiwan, respectively.
The impacts of climate change were again increasingly apparent and the future was emphasized in the IPCC Special Report, yet political change is still lagging.
The tendency of modern science to reduce complex phenomena into their component parts has many advantages for advancing knowledge. However, such reductionism in climate science is also a problem because it narrows the evidence base, limiting visions of possible futures and the ways they might be achieved.