Climate emergency: A question of semantics?
Framing the changing climate as an emergency is preventing progress towards climate action
Factsheet: The state of negotiations
The international response to climate change has been in the form of a global climate regime under the umbrella of the UN, the United …
Factsheet: Loss and damage and liablity
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the debate on the link between extreme weather-related events and climate change
Climate talks at Bonn miss the point, yet again
Countries could at least have arrived at clear texts on key issues for final decisions at COP 25 in Chile
Global warming set to breach 1.5 degree limit: IPCC Draft Report
Emission trajectories will have to undergo historic and unprecedented changes if the Paris Agreement is to be adhered, say authors
Need for coherence inside and outside of the UNFCCC: Figueres
The UNFCCC Executive Secretary was speaking at the stocktake event held half-way through the Bonn climate talks to assess progress
Will Climate Summit in New York Yield a Climate Pact in Paris?
The divide between developed and developing nations threatens a binding treaty on climate change to replace Kyoto protocol
The year 2023 smashed several climate records, with some being ‘chart-busting’: WMO report
Greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat reached …
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climatic tipping point is closer than we think
Scientists confirm that we are indeed in a climate emergency
COP24: 2018 may be one of the hottest years ever, says UN climate chief
Patricia Espinosa said this to highlight how important it is for conference in Katowice to address climate change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions
Neither the city nor the sea will relent
As a result of climate change and uneven development, fishing communities in Chennai are caught between a seaward moving land and a landward …
Significant increase in rainfall in north, central Africa: Study
Almost all regions of the continent, except the south and east, showed a significant increase in annual rainfall from 1983 to 2020
India’s new climate targets: Bold, ambitious and a challenge for the world
An already low-emitter, India’s new commitments to fight climate change force the historical emitters and China to commit to bolder emission-…
IPCC Report: Joining forces and using indigenous knowledge could avert disaster
In its first major climate report since 2013, the IPCC offers its starkest warning yet: Serious impacts of global warming are now unavoidable
Smoking gun letter reveals British CoP president’s 7-point climate action plan
Claire Perry O’Neill’s successor, Britain’s fine civil servants and its first-rate diplomats must work with counterparts in …
CoP 25: Marginal improvements in new text on Article 6 Sustainable Development Mechanism
But some bad options have not been excluded, and human rights protections are still weak
Influential new report abandons principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibility
Almost 75% of the 184 pledges made by various countries under the Paris Agreement as insufficient to slow climate change
Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible
It's still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of global carbon budget
Taking stock of Africa's livestock emissions
A new study on emissions contributed by cattle challenges the IPCC's estimates, triggering a call to incorporate data from local livestock systems
World’s ‘model diet’ under threat from lifestyle changes, globalisation
A study shows that people in the Mediterranean region are shying away from fruits and legumes and digging more into meat and dairy products
Is natural gas actually cleaner than coal? Growing evidence says maybe not
Methane releases from natural gas are a key factor in creating parity between the overall GHG emissions from gas and coal
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action
The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original
Pakistan floods: What role did climate change play?
Officials from the Pakistan Meteorological Department blamed climate change
Climate change: Southeastern Africa stares at future with extreme rainfall, floods
Lack of weather data is an obstacle to quantifying the climate link in the region
India most vulnerable to climate change
More than 22 million Indians were affected by extreme weather events in 2017, making the country most open to the cliamte attack