A planned ‘Future of Europe’ summit of European Union national leaders starting in Sibiu, Romania tomorrow was supposed to chart a course for the EU following Brexit. Instead, with Brexit delayed and…
Welcome to the 12th International Scientific Conference on Energy and Climate Change website. PROMITHEASnet – the Energy and Climate Change network, as the organizer, invites you to this three-days…
Global surface temperatures in 2019 are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid-1800s, behind only 2016 and possibly 2017.
On top of the long-term warming…
Study shows how destabilised natural systems will worsen man-made problem.
The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to $70tn (£54tn…
A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of…
An international team released 2018 ocean heat content observations in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on January 16, 2019. The newly available observations show that the year 2018 is the hottest…
EU leaders must prioritise climate action to combat dangerous climate change when they gather in Sibiu for the ‘Future of Europe’ summit on 9 May, write the plaintiffs of the People’s Climate Case,…
Singapore banks OCBC and DBS's new coal ban is an Asian game changer.
LAST week, in quick succession, Singapore banks OCBC and DBS signalled an end to their financing of new coal power plants. The…
A Finnish university has published a comprehensive global road map on how the world can reduce its carbon emissions before the 2050 deadline – and the research says that it is quite feasible.
The …
Dr Joanne Chory hopes that genetic modifications to enhance plants’ natural carbon-fixing traits could play a key role – but knows that time is short, for her and the planet.
If this were a film…
No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response.
Ηad we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses…
People taking part in protests in London and Edinburgh explain their reasons for doing so.
Nathan, 15, from Wanstead, east London
Nathan, who was into his second day of protest, was sitting in the…
Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather.
The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.…
As many as 77% of potential voters identify global warming as an important criterion when deciding who to vote for at the May European elections, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday (16…
Greta Thunberg visited Parliament today to meet with British MPs to discuss the climate crisis.
After meeting with MPs, Greta addressed a group of people to warn of the consequences of the climate…
Something strange is going on with the climate – not just in terms of the increased amount of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in the Arctic, Polar vortexes over New York and massive floods…
New evidence suggests one of the most important climate change data sets is getting the right answer.
A high-profile NASA temperature data set, which has pronounced the last five years the hottest…