More: Climate Crisis
COP27 and Climate Change: What Lies Ahead
'Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. We are on a highway to climate hell with one foot...
Advanced forecasting to help millions on coasts and in cities cope with climate-change impacts
By SARAH WILD
In the freezing reaches of Greenland, fissures in the ice sheet mark the battle lines in the fight against climate change. Greenhouse gases...
New report calls for urgent action to reduce material use in key industries
Urgent action is needed to reduce material use in key industries to avoid unprecedented climate change, according to new research by Zero Waste Europe...
COP27: Will it live up to expectations?
As explained earlier, COP 27 held in Egypt this time started with a proposal for climate compensation.
This annual major conference is attended by 200...
‘Penny For The Guy’: Of Fireworks, Kings And Climate Change
In Great Britain, November 5th is Guy Fawkes Day. It commemorates the failed Gunpowder plot of 1605, when Catholics tried to blow up Parliament...
Guterres calls for Climate Solidarity Pact, urges tax on oil companies to finance loss and damage
At the opening of the two-day Climate Implementation Summit at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, António Guterres called for a historic pact between developed...
COP27 begins a ‘new era to do things differently’
The UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, should shift the world towards implementation of previously agreed plans to tackle humanity’s greatest challenge,...
Climate change much deadlier than cancer in some places
The impact of climate change on health if carbon emissions remain high, could be up to twice as deadly as cancer in some parts...
The impacts have come faster and have been more hefty than we had thought
By ANTHONY KING
Professor Hans-Otto Pörtner is a climatologist, an oceans’ expert and co-chair on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, in particular the volume on impacts,...
World headed for climate catastrophe without urgent action
The window to take urgent climate action is closing rapidly. Unless countries dramatically scale up their efforts to counter the climate crisis, the world...