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“The conference balance sheet is clear: on paper, Glasgow clarifies the ambiguous Paris goal by making it more radical (1.5°C is now the target) and mentions the responsibility of fossil fuels; but in practice, the conference did not take any steps to stop the catastrophe.”
The Glasgow Conference (...)
Representatives particularly disappointed by softened language on coal and a lack of funding to pay for loss and damages
Pacific representatives and negotiators have condemned the outcome of the Cop26 meeting as “watered down” and a “monumental failure” that puts Pacific nations in severe (...)
The most important events at the UN-sponsored climate conference in Glasgow occurred not inside, but in meetings and demonstrations outside.
On November 8 there was a march of climate activists, mostly young, of some 100,000. On this march, one of the issues raised was the huge contribution (...)
It’s too late for incremental change. By mobilising just 25% of people, we can flip social attitudes towards the climate
Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered years of (...)
Pandering to the rich has got us into this mess. The correlation between wealth and polluting behaviour could not be clearer
Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. The way governments have allowed democracy to be eroded by lobbyists (including politicians with lucrative (...)
Climate crisis is driving up deadly combination of temperature and humidity, says study released at Cop26.
A billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress if the climate crisis raises the global temperature by just 2C, according to research released by the UK Met Office at the Cop26 (...)
Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030, while poorest 50% will release one tonne of CO2 a year
The carbon dioxide emissions of the richest 1% of humanity are on track to be 30 times greater than what is compatible with keeping global heating below 1.5C, new research warns, (...)
The handwaving and complexity obscure a simple truth: nation states must stop funding dirty industries
In some respects, preventing climate breakdown is highly complicated. But in another, it’s really simple: we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All the bluster and grandstanding, the (...)
“The problem in Glasgow is not just whether an agreement is reached, or even whether it will be implemented, it is that the target that has been set by the elites – ‘a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and then ‘net’ zero by 2050’ – was entirely inadequate before the conference (...)
The Paris Climate Agreement states that financial flows should be “consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate resilient development”. While this crucial issue will be addressed for the first time by the international community at the COP26 , the agenda and (...)
Scientists say keeping temperature rises to 1.5C is vital physical threshold for planet that cannot be negotiated
The 1.5C temperature limit to be discussed by world leaders at critical meetings this weekend is a vital physical threshold for the planet’s climate, and not an arbitrary political (...)
The increasing number of climate disasters around the world is the result of a warming of “only” 1.1° to 1.2° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. From reading the IPCC’s special 1.5°C report1, any reasonable reader will conclude that everything, absolutely everything, must be done to keep the Earth (...)
Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather.
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Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now (...)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 has presented its Physical Basis Report as a contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on climate change, due in early 2022. The report and its summary are written in the precise style and vocabulary of scientific (...)
Phil Hearse investigates the latest stage of climate disaster, which threatens to unleash a cascade of unstoppable weather changes.
From Oregon in the United States, to Antalya and Bodrum in Turkey, to some of the coldest areas of Siberia, in the last month wildfires have been devastating (...)
A shutdown would have devastating global impacts and must not be allowed to happen, researchers say.
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
The research found “an almost complete loss of stability (...)
People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act.
Human beings crave clarity, immediacy, landmark events. We seek turning points, because our minds are good at recognizing the specific – this time, this place, this sudden event, (...)
Climate crimes: How Big Oil and Gas kept a dirty secret for decades Experts’ discoveries lie at the heart of two dozen lawsuits that hope to hold the industry accountable for devastating damage.
Photo – Marty Hoffert: ‘It never actually occurred to me that this was going to become a political (...)
Climate change will affect every aspect of our lives – including the buildings we live and work in. Most people in the US, for example, spend about 90% of their time indoors. Climate change is fundamentally altering the environmental conditions in which these buildings are designed to function. (...)
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil (...)
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