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‘Despair’ as global carbon emissions to hit new record in 2018
Global carbon emissions will rise to a new record level in 2018, making the chances of reaching a target to keep temperature increases to 1.5 or 2C “weaker and weaker every year, every month”, the head...
View ArticleWhy UN climate science reports have Africa-shaped gaps
Africa is home to one in six of the world’s people and rising. From its sensitive ecosystems to booming cities, the continent is vulnerable to climate change and increasingly important to tackling it....
View ArticleIslands need support to face shocking impacts of 1.5C global warming
A month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a startling report on global warming and 1.5C, policymakers are scrambling to determine how the findings should inform the...
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French senate ‘failed to heed’ UN science warning before protests
Just a few months before protests exploded across France, the country’s senate was warned the shift to a clean economy risked social disruption, according the scientist who presented the evidence....
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Climate science on 1.5C erased at UN talks as US and Saudis step in
Four big oil and gas producers blocked UN climate talks from welcoming the most influential climate science report in years, as a meeting in Poland descended into acrimony on Saturday. By failing to...
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Saudi version of climate justice rejected by developing countries
Competing visions of climate justice have alienated Saudi Arabia from other developing countries at UN climate talks in Poland. After a heated debate on Saturday night failed to adopt the conclusions...
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Britain, home of the industrial revolution, ‘to end contribution to global...
The UK will stop warming the global climate by 2050 and urge other countries to follow, under independent advice published on Thursday. In a 277-page report commissioned by the government, the...
View ArticleI am a denier. A human extinction denier
There has been a lot of talk recently about climate change and extinction. It is undoubtedly the case that species go extinct. And sometimes large numbers of species disappear together in mass events...
View ArticleIEA develops pathway to ambitious 1.5C climate goal
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is developing a scenario for holding global warming below 1.5C that could be included in its influential annual outlook this year. The agency’s World Energy...
View Article‘Gentlemen’s agreement’ could leave 1.5C science report out of formal UN talks
After pressure from Saudi Arabia, a major report on 1.5C faces being dropped from formal negotiations in the science stream of UN climate talks. Discussions came to an impasse in December last year...
View ArticleUN report on 1.5C blocked from climate talks after Saudi Arabia disputes science
A major report on 1.5C has been excluded from formal UN climate negotiations, after Saudi Arabia tried to discredit its scientific underpinnings. Discussions came to a deadlock at the talks in Bonn...
View ArticleAustralia seeks to water down climate declaration at Pacific summit
Australia is attempting to water down a declaration on the urgent need for climate action at a meeting of Pacific leaders on the low-lying island of Tuvalu. An annotated draft of the Pacific Islands...
View ArticleNet zero: the story of the target that will shape our future
The 'lionesses' who changed the way we measure climate ambition The post Net zero: the story of the target that will shape our future appeared first on Climate Home News.
View ArticleDying oceans rising faster than predicted, UN warns in stark report
The accelerating thaw of Antarctica might drive sea levels up by more than five metres by 2300 unless governments act quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a UN report said on Wednesday. Many fish,...
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IEA World Energy Outlook outlines 1.5C scenario
The International Energy Agency is relying on the deployment of large-scale negative emissions technology in the last part of the century to limit warming to 1.5C, according to its latest major report....
View Article2020 may be ‘last opportunity’ to limit warming to 1.5°C
While it’s unfair to describe the Madrid climate change conference in December as a complete failure, there is no sugar-coating the reality that it achieved much, much less than what the people and...
View ArticleWorld faces ‘decisive decade’ to fix global warming, former UN climate chief...
The 2020s are the decisive decade for the world to avert the worst impacts of climate change in a peaceful revolution that rejects the type of “short-sighted” pro-coal policies embraced by US President...
View ArticleNext UN climate science report to consider lessons from coronavirus
Scientists are studying how far human pressures on the natural world are raising risks of pandemics. They will weave lessons from the coronavirus outbreak into the next UN climate science report, even...
View ArticleGuterres confronts China over coal boom, urging a green recovery
UN secretary general António Guterres has urged China to stop funding coal projects, warning the Paris climate agreement goals will slip out of reach if the world fails to deliver a green recovery to...
View ArticleUK climate champion: Oil majors can join the ‘race to zero’– if they align...
Oil companies are welcome to join the “race to zero” emissions – if they make climate plans in line with limiting global heating to 1.5C, the UK’s climate champion tells Climate Home News. The Race to...
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I am proud to have negotiated the Paris Agreement, at my first UN summit
A little more than five years ago, I was part of the Costa Rican delegation getting ready for almost three weeks of international climate negotiations in Paris, known as Cop21. The stakes could not be...
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New Zealand urged to accelerate emissions cuts in line with 2050 net zero goal
New Zealand’s climate advisers have warned the government must “pick up the pace” to cut its emissions in line with its 2050 carbon neutrality goal. The report by the Climate Change Commission said the...
View Article‘Science-based’ corporate climate targets are no such thing, says former advisor
One of the instigators of an influential climate initiative for big business has gone public with criticism of its target-setting process, saying it does not measure up to its ambition. Bill Baue was...
View ArticleChina, US urged to step up as UN warns world ‘very far’ from meeting climate...
Every country, and especially large emitters, needs to increase climate ambition this year to avert disaster, the UN climate chief has said. Patricia Espinosa warned that the collective ambition of...
View ArticleFossil fuels on notice – Climate Weekly
Watershed moments don’t come around too often in the slow world of climate diplomacy. But the International Energy Agency’s first comprehensive scenario to align the energy sector with limiting global...
View ArticleChina, India miss UN’s extended deadline for climate pledges
Some of the world’s largest emitters have missed the UN’s extended deadline for submitting updated climate plans to be included in an assessment of progress towards the Paris Agreement goals ahead of...
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What is Cop26 and why does it matter? Your guide to the Glasgow climate summit
The next round of UN climate talks, or Cop26, has been billed as a test of global solidarity between the world’s rich and poor and the most important climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed...
View ArticleUK needs to deliver on climate, not set higher 2030 target, say advisers
The UK government does not need to submit a more ambitious 2030 climate target next year in response to the Glasgow Climate Pact, according to its independent climate advisors. The UK’s Climate Change...
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Five takeaways from the IPCC’s report on limiting dangerous global heating
The UN’s climate science body has released a major report on ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst-case warming scenario. This is the last of three instalments of the...
View ArticleAs 1.5C overshoot looms, a high-level commission will ask: what next?
The chances of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5C, the toughest goal of the Paris Agreement, are increasingly slim. “Well below 2C” is a stretch. Yet there has been little discussion at an...
View ArticleFormer presidents of Mexico, Niger, Kiribati join commission to tackle...
Three former presidents, one former prime minister and six former ministers are among 16 leaders tasked with exploring options for reducing the risks of overshooting global temperature goals. The...
View ArticleResearchers push to make polluters put carbon back in the ground
A group of researchers is ramping up a campaign to make polluters put carbon back in the ground. As oil and gas companies rake in record profits, a team from Oxford University in the UK is making the...
View ArticleChinese coal boom a ‘direct threat’ to 1.5C goal, analysts warn
A boom in China’s coal power generation is derailing global efforts to limit global heating to 1.5C, analysts have warned. Concerns were raised because Beijing rapidly accelerated plans for new coal...
View ArticleNations fight to be called climate vulnerable in IPCC report
Government negotiators fought bitterly last week over which groups and regions are defined as particularly vulnerable to climate change in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
View ArticleUS pledges $1 billion to Green Climate Fund amid call to keep 1.5C in reach
The US will provide $1 billion to the UN’s flagship climate fund – its first such contribution in six years. Joe Biden made the commitment as he hosted a virtual meeting of world leaders on Thursday to...
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FAO draft report backs growth of livestock industry despite emissions
The livestock industry is essential for food security and economic development, according to a draft report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) that reinforces its defence...
View ArticleG20 waters down experts’ climate finance report, despite UN pressure to act
As UN chief António Guterres called on the G20 to “lead” on climate, Climate Home can reveal that the group of big countries watered down a report by top economists on how the financial system should...
View ArticleEU should push for global deal to curb solar geoengineering, advisors say
The European Union should “proactively negotiate” for a global regime that governs controversial technologies designed to cool the planet – and push to prevent their deployment, its scientific...
View ArticleCanada ignores official advice in setting much-criticised 2035 emissions target
The Canadian government has announced a new target to reduce planet-heating emissions 45-50% from 2005 levels by 2035, despite its official advisors on the Net Zero Advisory Board (NZAB) recommending a...
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2024: A year of extreme heat and growing climate danger
At the end of the first year in which global average temperatures are almost certain to top the key threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists have sounded the alarm about the extremes of...
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