Latest predictions suggest that Earth’s global average temperature is likely to reach record warmth during the five-year period 2020-2024.
The current warmest year on record is 2016, but the latest …
Global emissions have soared by two-thirds in the three decades since international climate talks began. To make the reductions required, what’s needed is a new approach that creates incentives for…
"The moment of crisis has come" in efforts to tackle climate change, Sir David Attenborough has warned.
He spoke as BBC News launched a year of special coverage on global warming.
Here are our…
LONDON - Move over revenue growth and dividend payouts: it’s time to take your portfolio’s temperature.
Policymakers are pushing investors to do more to ensure their portfolio choices help to meet…
The world is vastly underestimating the benefits of acting on climate change. Recent research from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate finds that bold climate action could deliver at…
Immense amounts of methane are escaping from oil and gas sites nationwide, worsening global warming, even as the Trump administration weakens restrictions on offenders.
To the naked eye, there is…
In Pasig City, Philippines, southeast of Manila, there's an apartment complex with whitewashed walls and colorful trim. It's an unassuming set of buildings, but a globally important one.
The…
Like other central banks, the E.C.B., which met on Thursday, is scrambling to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.
FRANKFURT — Climate change has already been blamed…
Through High-Performance Architecture, Professor Mattheos Santamouris tackles problems affecting most of the population of the world.
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It's disturbing and infuriating. Major fossil fuel companies are alleged to have known about the science of climate change for decades. One of them–Imperial Oil, the Canadian subsidiary of ExxonMobil…
Australian PM Scott Morrison has been accused of lacking leadership during the bushfire crisis - by the man he replaced after a party room coup.
Malcolm Turnbull, who was deposed in 2018, told the…
Oceans are clearest measure of climate crisis as they absorb 90% of heat trapped by greenhouse gases.
The heat in the world’s oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing “irrefutable and…
US President Donald Trump has decried climate "prophets of doom" in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where sustainability is the main theme.
He called for a rejection of "predictions…
The European Union has set targets for renewable energy sources to make up at least 32% of the energy mix, and for energy savings to reach 32.5%, by 2030. Greece must now design and implement…
People fleeing immediate danger due to the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, the UN has said.
The landmark ruling centres on the case of Ioane Teitiota, whose home - the Pacific Island…
Tennis star Roger Federer has responded to climate change critics - including campaigner Greta Thunberg - by saying he takes the issue very seriously.
Activists oppose Federer's sponsorship deal…