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The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%, up from 20% in 2020.
The year the world breaches for the first time the 1.5C global heating limit set by international governments is fast approaching, a new forecast shows.
The probability of one of the next five (...)
Alan Thornett argues that life on planet Earth is facing a perfect storm.
The precarious agreement from COP26 in Glasgow – which was barely enough to keep the goal of a 1.5°C maximum global temperature increase alive last year – is being overwhelmed by the fall-out from Putin’s brutal invasion of (...)
The world’s food system was under strain even before Russia invaded Ukraine. Now — compounded by the war’s effect on trade and a corresponding spike in global fuel prices — it faces two dangerous and intertwined crises.
In the short term, Russia’s war on Ukraine increases the risk of extreme hunger (...)
One would think that, given the present convergence of crises – a runaway climate; a global pandemic that has already killed at least an estimated 6.18 million people around the world since 2020 and is still killing thousands daily; and a horrific war in Europe – governments would start to see (...)
This article discusses the draft of the Working Group 3 Summary for Policymakers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPCC), submitted for discussion and approval to 195 governments prior to its release on 4th April 2020.
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The report was mangled by various (...)
Rainforests looked after by communities absorb twice as much carbon as other lands, analysis shows.
Paris climate agreement goals will fail unless the rights of Indigenous people who protect rainforests are honoured, according to a new report.
Forest lands stewarded by Indigenous people and (...)
New data suggests forests help keep the Earth at least half of a degree cooler, protecting us from the effects of climate crisis
The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local (...)
The report of the [IPCC’s Working Group II (WG II)->https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2 on Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change sends out a strident cry of alarm: the disaster is more serious than projected by the models, its effects are manifesting themselves more quickly and all the risks (...)
This text was one of three presented to open a discussion on the international situation at the International Committee meeting and which we agreed will together form the basis for our future elaboration. 1. Pull the emergency brake
The ecocidal accumulation of capital threatens the very (...)
Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception – in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play astronomers who make a literally Earth-shattering discovery and then try (...)
I’ve broken down on TV too, trying to explain the horror of the climate crisis to those who wield power and do nothing
No wonder journalists have slated it. They’ve produced a hundred excuses not to watch the climate breakdown satire Don’t Look Up: it’s “blunt”, it’s “shrill”, it’s “smug”. But they (...)
“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 (...)
Formerly rare high temperatures now covering half of seas and devastating wildlife, study shows
Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research.
Scientists analysed sea surface temperatures over the last 150 years, (...)
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 (...)
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