climate change

Will COP26 be a climate "turning point" as Boris Johnson wants, or more "blah blah blah" of the kind Greta Thunberg condemns? At face value, things do not look promising, for a simple reason: the…

Whatever the outcome of the UN’s latest high-stakes crapshoot, a lengthy and arcane process must be followed first It’s not the expectation that is unbearable with Cop26; it is the hope. The world,…

Bertie Booster wanted to share his excitement as the world of the rich and powerful played out in public.

The Rainbow Warrior has brought us to Cop26 to speak up for the sidelined citizens of the global south. We can’t be ignored The writers are members of the climate action group Fridays for Future…

We are resilient in the face of worsening floods and drought, but refuse to accept more failures from world leaders

Australia’s policy at Cop26 is weak and unacceptable. It doesn’t give me any sense of hope Iam 15 years old, and like so many young people across the world, I came to climate activism through…

Let's start with the bad news. Governments are far, far from achieving their goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C. We've already got dangerous warming in the form of floods, record…

Summary of the main developments on the third day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow Country pledges at Cop26 would limit global temperature rises to below 2C, the first time the world has been on…

A number of ambitious emissions reductions targets were announced by the UNFCCC’s

The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) — the most important international climate conference since the one that resulted in the Paris agreement more than five years ago — began…

Scientists have provided another reminder that, when it comes to climate change, we're all in this together. A study published last month in Nature Climate Change concluded that at least 85% of the…

Wildlife in Tanzania and Kenya is under threat due to climate change, according to a local conservationist group that observes the migration of wild animals. The Mara Predator Conservation Project…

BEIJING: Establishing a fund to help poor countries tackle climate change will be "the biggest obstacle" during United Nations talks to try to curb global warming that begin in Glasgow on Oct 31, a…

Climate change could bombard the U.S. financial system on many fronts, and the nation’s growing dependence on natural gas for heating and electricity requires particular scrutiny as regulators…

We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news…

Pakistan's power plans favour hydro, slashing support for solar and wind Several coinciding events are putting the spotlight on Pakistan’s power sector plans. At Glasgow’s COP26 climate conference,…

Report says countries must strengthen climate ambitions after wasting chance to build back better after Covid The world is squandering the opportunity to “build back better” from the Covid-19…

There has been criticism of the number of world leaders and other delegates who have travelled to the COP26 summit in private jets. How much environmental damage do they do - and did leaders have…

Today, as delegates gather in Glasgow for the second day of COP26, real economy leaders join Heads of State on stage at the city’s SEC centre to launch new partnerships that will catalyze finance and…

Cop26 countries must take action to stop record heat becoming an annual event, say experts The heatwaves and wildfires that caused devastation in Europe this summer would not have happened without…