In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) offered a comprehensive outline of what it will take to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial levels, in line with the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The bottom line is simple: Greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions must peak by 2025. To achieve that goal, financial flows must rapidly be redirected from fossil fuels toward renewable energy.

A key finding in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study.In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases (GHG) are projected to peak "at the latest before 2025".This implies that carbon could increase for another three years and the world could still avoid dangerous warming.But scientists say that's incorrect and that emissions need to fall immediately.

Those lucky enough to have seen them will never forget.For just a few days every year, the elfin cloud forest of Costa Rica came alive with crowds of golden toads the length of a child's thumb, emerging from the undergrowth to mate at rain-swelled pools.In this mysterious woodland the cloud drapes over mountain ridges and "the trees are dwarfed and wind-sculpted, gnarled and heavily laden with mosses," said J Alan Pounds, an ecologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in

With a whopping 70 percent of humanity predicted to be living in urban areas by the middle of the century, United Nations (UN) climate experts see a huge opportunity to create ideal cities that are walkable, leafy and energy efficient.Urban areas currently account for around 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, notes a comprehensive report on climate change solutions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released this week.We are in the "urban cent

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken many long-held Western assumptions about the foundations of peace in Europe.

Everyone on the planet should be covered by an early warning system against extreme weather and climate-related disasters within five years, the United Nations (UN) secretary general has said.About a third of people around the world are not now covered by early warning systems, but in Africa the problem is greater, with about six in 10 people lacking such warnings.As climate breakdown takes hold, more people are likely to be affected by extreme weather, including flash floods, heatwaves, more

Going beyond the headline figures of rising temperatures and sea levels, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) captures the full scale of the threat to human life in a heating world. It explains how extreme weather, drought, habitat and species loss, urban heat islands, and the destruction of food sources and livelihoods are all intensifying.

Across a quarter century of United Nations (UN) climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between.This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once.Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the streets of Glasgow, dismissed the two-week meet as a "greenwashing festival".But dedicated experts in the ne

Leaders may be going into the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night.The real disaster scenario begins with the triggering of invisible climate tripwires known as tipping points. "Climate tipping points are a game-changing risk – an existential threat – and we need to do everything within our power to avoid them," said Tim Lent

As recently as three months ago, the global economy seemed to be on track for a relatively robust recovery. The supply of COVID-19 vaccines had expanded in the developed countries, raising hopes that it would spill over to developing countries in the second half of 2021 and into 2022.