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PARIS (Reuters) - Environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s discourse on climate change was overly pessimistic and demoralizing for young people, LVMH (LVMH.PA) boss Bernard Arnault said on Wednesday,…

DEFRA, BEIS and the Met Office have joined forces to launch several climate projections. The launch will see the highest-ever resolution of climate projections produced for the UK: for the first…

The Coalition’s 2030 Vision is in response to the United Nations Secretary-General’s call for increased ambition and action to address the climate crisis.

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Climate change increasingly threatens communities all…

CLIMATE ACTION FROM AROUND THE WORLD   As it happened around the world    

Author and social activist Naomi Klein has written a new book On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Here she talks to Guardian assistant editor Natalie Hanman about the Green New Deal,…

Energy-saving light bulbs are the latest Obama-era environmental initiative to face a rollback by the Trump administration. The Department of Energy finalized a rule Wednesday that will block new…

The damage caused by catastrophic “superstorms” combined with rising sea levels could increase by a hundred-fold or more, displacing hundreds of millions of people from coastlines around the world…

Africa is still heavily reliant on coal. To protect the climate, leading industrialised countries should help Africa to invest in clean growth and leapfrop to renewables, says former Kenyan Prime…

Existing sources of capital will not suffice to tackle climate change concerns. Here’s what needs to be done.

Experts agree that global heating of 4C by 2100 is a real possibility. The effects of such a rise will be extreme and require a drastic shift in the way we live. Drowned cities; stagnant seas;…

Famous climatologists, artists and I get personal on why we do climate work.

The fossil-fuel lobby is threatened by public concern over the climate crisis. So it’s buying influence to get the results it wants. The tragedy of our times is that the gathering collapse of our…

Our world’s richest have a great deal of money. They also have the power to decide whether our civilization sinks or swims. So what can we do?

European leaders will struggle to broker a stronger climate package before December, experts say, as Warsaw prepares to play hard for funding. EURACTIV’s media partner Climate Home News reports.

Belgian zookeepers fed tigers with chickens encased in giant ice cubes on Wednesday (24 July) as northern Europe baked in record temperatures during another heat wave that climate experts believe…

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and after the hottest June ever recorded on Earth, the region is literally on fire. From Greenland to Siberia to Alaska, huge swathes…

As part of our Stormproofing the City series, Klaus Jacob, who predicted the devastation wrought by 2012 storm, tells Lilah Raptopoulos why city planners could be making things worse, not better, for…

In a White House speech, the president claimed clean air and water has been a priority but voters disapprove of his climate crisis handling.

A new report by the Committee on Climate Change has warned that the UK Government is not prepared to deal with the climate crisis. A month after the UK made it legally binding to be net zero by 2050…