None of the G20 group of major economies has followed through with policies to match the climate action pledges made at COP26 – although Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought added impetus to the…
Despite current targets and commitments to combat climate change, global temperatures look set to increase by 2.4°C by 2100 — way above the Paris Agreement target. Climate action has never been more…
UN Climate Change News, 13 May 2022 – Dates have been announced for this year’s Latin America and the Caribbean Climate Week 2022 (LACCW 2022), the UN Climate Change platform for regional…
A key finding in the latest IPCC climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study.
In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected…
The carbon-cutting promises made at COP26 would see the world warm by just under 2C this century, according to a new analysis.
The study finds that if all the pledges made by countries are…
Ihadn’t seen the 2021 satirical film Don’t Look Up when I went on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday. I was there on behalf of Just Stop Oil – a group that has been engaging in direct action by…
The climate crisis is often seen in binary terms. Precise temperature targets – limiting global heating to 1.5C or 2C – imply decisive moments of victory or loss. Headlines warn that we have only “12…
Environmental groups have raised concerns about a $500m (£380m) forest protection deal signed by Boris Johnson at Cop26, after a damning report into the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s “lawless”…
The legacy of last year’s Cop26 “still holds”, the chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change has said.
Chris Stark was talking on Tuesday as the group paid a visit to Dundee’s Michelin…
MEMBERS OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR A GREEN DEAL URGE IMF TO TAKE UP PROPOSALS FIRST MADE BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF BARBADOS, MIA MOTTLEY, AT COP26
Members of the Global Alliance for a Green New Deal…
Exclusive: Demand for ‘climate waiver’ to free countries from fear of litigation over emission cuts
Climate agreements reached in Glasgow this month could come under legal attack from polluting…
How much the world achieved at the Glasgow climate talks – and what happens now – depends in large part on where you live.
In island nations that are losing their homes to sea level rise, and in…
The window to achieve that goal is vanishingly small, but it is there. Now we must seize this one last chance.
Like many others, I would like to have seen a stronger outcome from Cop26. But we…
Κατά τη διάρκεια της Διάσκεψης του ΟΗΕ για το Κλίμα (COP26) στη Γλασκώβη, πολλοί αναλυτές έσπευσαν να αποδελτιώσουν τη φιλοδοξία των κρατών, προβλέποντας το μέλλον που προδιαγράφουν οι κλιματικοί…
No amount of greenwashing by the Brazilian government can obscure the truth: The Amazon is being destroyed at a historic rate.
The country’s PRODES monitoring system shows there was a 21.97%…
Activists raised placards reading ‘betrayed by my government’ and ‘COP has failed’
Police have arrested 120 people in the past week after climate activists blocked major bridges linking central and…
The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. The soft pledges made at COP26…
The Glasgow climate deal has put India and China in the spotlight after they opposed a commitment to "phase out" coal while negotiating the final agreement.
Instead, countries agreed to "phase down…