Nature Climate Change
Policy interactions reshape the outcomes of carbon pricing policies
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02578-0
The adoption and effectiveness of carbon pricing are highly reshaped by interactions with other climate mitigation policies. A global comparative assessment of policy synergies and conflicts can guide policymakers in designing policy portfolios that can achieve higher mitigation cost-effectiveness.Cross-national comparative assessment of synergies and conflicts in climate policy mixes
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02574-4
Interactions between climate policy instruments can have synergistic and conflicting effects, but these interactions are not systematically understood. This research provides global evidence on how policy characteristics and interactions in different contexts could lead to different outcomes.Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 11 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02562-8
The feasibility of climate policies hinges on public support. A survey of 13 EU countries shows that ‘middle groups’—citizens whose support across mitigation measures varies, rather than being uniformly supportive or opposed—play a pivotal role in shaping overall public policy support and electoral outcomes.Changing bird nutrient inputs
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02592-2
Changing bird nutrient inputsAmplified variability
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02593-1
Amplified variabilityDesign impacts building emissions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02591-3
Design impacts building emissionsSymbolic policies foster support
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02594-0
Symbolic policies foster supportLiving in the overshoot age
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02589-x
Overshoot, the temporary crossing of climate targets before warming is reversed, has shifted from theoretical models to an urgent reality. Addressing this challenge requires effective strategies, global collaboration of different stakeholders and fair governance systems to manage the unprecedented risks.Breaking the language barrier in adaptation
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-025-02515-7
Youth-led translation efforts provide solutions to make climate knowledge accessible worldwide.Antarctic minerals in a warming world
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02586-0
Climate change will expose new ice-free areas of Antarctica. Now a study explores how climate change might spur the first ‘gold rush’ on the unexploited continent.Additionality requirements of carbon markets could penalize Indigenous stewardship
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 04 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02576-2
Despite strong evidence that Indigenous stewardship sustains biodiversity and carbon stocks, carbon markets typically reward recovery from degradation rather than protection, often excluding Indigenous-managed lands. Rethinking additionality could align climate mitigation with care, equity and long-term ecosystem stewardship.Author Correction: The hard road back from overshoot
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 03 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02604-1
Author Correction: The hard road back from overshootTechnological improvements in EV batteries offset climate-induced durability challenges
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 02 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02579-z
Electric vehicles (EV) will be widely adopted in the near future, but worsening climate change will impact the performance and longevity of EV batteries. This research reveals the scale and distribution of these effects and how technological advancements could mitigate battery lifetime reductions.Prospects and challenges of risk-based insurance pricing for disaster adaptation
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02577-1
Regulation of property insurance pricing involves trade-offs that will determine how disaster risks impact households’ budgets. Allowing prices to reflect property-specific risks offers several benefits, but may cause a range of negative unintended consequences associated with declines in coverage.Melt channelization stronger than previously recognized
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02568-2
Melting beneath floating Antarctic ice shelves is a major driver of ice-shelf mass loss and is projected to increase over the coming century. High-resolution maps of Antarctic basal-melt rates reveal stronger melt within narrow basal channels than previously recognized, making some ice shelves more vulnerable to additional melt channelization.Implications of overshoot for climate mitigation strategies
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02563-7
A temporary breach of the temperature target, or overshoot, is unavoidable. The authors review the history of how overshoot evolved in mitigation pathways, the magnitude and outcomes of potential physical and socio-economic impacts, and priorities for future model and scenario development.Climate change on television reaches the engaged but misses distant audiences
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 25 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02575-3
Although widely used, television is underexplored in climate communication. Here analysis of German television programmes and audience perceptions shows that climate change coverage is concentrated in news formats and engages climate supporters, but misses climate-distant audiences drawn to entertainment.Weighting for net zero
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02556-6
Policy and planning increasingly depend on large ensembles of climate and energy scenarios, but these collections can be biased and hard to interpret. A new weighting framework aims to make these ensembles more transparent, balanced and decision relevant.The hard road back from overshoot
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02573-5
As global temperatures move beyond 1.5 °C, overshoot now defines the landscape ahead, sharpening legal claims, exposing economic risks and revealing how far politics still trail the pace of change.Emotional responses to state repression predict collective climate action intentions
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 24 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02570-8
As climate activists escalate disruptive protest, authorities respond by intensifying restrictions on protest. This study examines how protest repression shapes climate activism and indicates distinct effects across collective action types and repression experience, with emotions as mediators.