Climate science
Governments battle over carbon removal and renewables in IPCC report
While the Saudis pushed carbon capture and storage technology, Europeans fought for wind and solar to be talked up in the report.
Nations fight to be called climate vulnerable in IPCC report
Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies
The IPCC’s climate scientists have done their job – now we must do ours
As citizens, we must educate and inspire our peers to act on climate change through positive and empowering campaigns
IPCC highlights rich nations’ failure to help developing world adapt to climate change
Scientists say funding needs to increase ‘many-fold’ in order to reach climate goals and protect communities disproportionately affected by global warming
Chinese coal boom a ‘direct threat’ to 1.5C goal, analysts warn
Energy security fears prompted Beijing to rapidly accelerate coal power plans last year, raising concerns about the country’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions
Study: IPCC asks emerging countries to drop coal faster than rich nations did
A new study has found that most energy transition models ask nations like China, India and South Africa to cut coal use twice as fast as developed countries ever did.
Lula revives $1 billion Amazon Fund and environmental protections
On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment
Breakthrough for nature protection – Climate Weekly
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India’s sugarcane farmers struggle to cope with droughts and floods
In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt
Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row
Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands
Governments split on ditching nature-harming subsidies in Montreal
Negotiators at the Cop15 biodiversity summit in Montreal have until Friday to agree a “nature pact” that can get rid of harmful subsidies
UN nature pact nears its ‘Copenhagen or Paris’ moment
Cop15 biodiversity negotiations in Montreal next month will determine how the world halts and reverses nature loss
In numbers: The state of the climate ahead of Cop27
Emissions are still rising, pledges to 2030 put the world on track for 2.5C of warming but fossil fuel demand is nearing its peak
Odd couple bungle nature talks – Climate Weekly
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World leaders not invited to attend critical UN biodiversity summit
Tense relations between the Chinese presidency and host nation Canada put a “Paris Agreement for nature” further out of reach
Researchers push to make polluters put carbon back in the ground
A team from Oxford University is trying to persuade governments to impose carbon capture and storage requirements on fossil fuel producers
Five burning climate issues for the 2022 UN general assembly
Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding and soaring energy bills are shaping the UN agenda – for those leaders who show up
African leaders blast European no-shows at climate adaptation summit
Presidents of Senegal, DRC and Ghana travelled to Rotterdam to talk about adapting to climate change. Only one European leader was there to meet them
Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe
In China, Lake Poyang is just a quarter of its normal size, while in Germany, the Rhine is running at 45% of its average levels for August
Pakistan struggles to rebuild after deadly flash floods
At least 550 people died as the wettest month in three decades washed away mud houses in rural Balochistan – and international aid is not forthcoming