Australia won’t give money to Green Climate Fund, says PM
Australia will not “tip money” into the UN’s global climate fund, prime minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. Australia gave A$200m ($141m) to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) between 2015 and 2018,...
View ArticleDear EU leaders, this is why we are suing you for a 1.5C global warming limit
Our message is urgent. We need you to look this way and listen to our words. This is too important. We write to you as farmers, shepherds, foresters, hotel and restaurant owners and students. We live...
View ArticleClimate lawyers to use UN 1.5C report to sue governments
A major UN science report on global warming published Monday will bolster climate lawsuits, according to legal experts and those seeking redress for government inaction. The report from the...
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Reality check: is the 1.5C warming target even possible?
Think “not impossible”, rather than “possible”. “If you would like to stabilise global warming at 1.5C, the key message is that net CO2 emissions at the global scale must reach zero by 2050,“ Valérie...
View ArticleEU lawmakers support 55% emission cuts as IPCC spectre lurks
Members of the European Parliament voted on Wednesday in favour of increasing the EU’s Paris Agreement emissions pledge by 2020. They also urged the European Commission to make sure its long-term...
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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....
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