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How five crucial elections in 2024 could shape climate action for decades

Some of the world’s biggest carbon emitters are going to the polls this year — the results could determine whether humanity can correct its trajectory of dangerous global warming.
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  1. Smriti Mallapaty
  2. Jeff Tollefson
  3. Carissa Wong
  4. Sarah Wild

    1. Sarah Wild is a freelance journalist in Canterbury, UK.

  5. Nisha Gaind
Donald Trump, seen through a circle of red light, speaks to crowds of supporters at a 2024 presidential election rally

Former US president Donald Trump could once again pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord if he wins November’s election. Credit: Julia Nikhinson/AFP/Getty

This year, voters in five of the world’s biggest carbon-emitting territories go to the polls. These regions — the United States, India, Indonesia, Russia and the European Union — represent one-third of the world’s population and about the same proportion of human-made carbon emissions.

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Nature 627, 22-25 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00642-3

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