Some key events coming up in 2025 have game-changing potential for our planet. Here, two of the BBC’s environment journalists analyse what they could mean for the climate and nature.

As countries unveil new climate targets, Donald Trump enters the White House for a second term and a potentially game-changing ruling for future climate lawsuits unfolds – 2025 is set to be a big year for climate and nature.

Speaking in his New Year’s message in late December, secretary-general of the United Nations  António Guterres said that the world is witnessing “climate breakdown – in real time”.

“We must exit this road to ruin. In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future,” he said, stressing that “it is essential – and it is possible”.

Here are seven of the big moments in 2025 that could shift the dial on climate and nature.