Climate science
Price water or prepare for a thirstier, poorer planet – World Bank
Value water or face plummeting growth rates, warns World Bank as Africa and Asia suffer from ongoing drought linked to El Nino and climate change
No need to destroy forests to feed growing population – study
Models show saving trees and expanding food supply are compatible, particularly if people avoid meat
Shifting monsoons to hit tea crops, researchers warn
Tea growers in East Asia need to prepare for changing rainfall patterns or face lower yields, studies show
Vulnerable states stress 1.5C goal at UN climate ceremony
Climate Vulnerable Forum calls on all countries to increase their carbon-cutting contributions by 2020, as leaders meet in New York
Five ways 2C global warming is worse than 1.5C
Half a degree makes a significant difference to sea levels, crop yields and coral reefs, find researchers
How the Maldives are putting climate funds to work
As leaders meet in New York to sign the Paris climate deal, a water project is helping remote islands handle drought risk
Is polar cooperation thawing US-Russia tensions?
Low oil prices have reduced pressure to exploit Arctic fossil fuels and boosted hopes that the region’s fragile environment will be better protected
Still time to salvage husky-hugging legacy, Cameron told
WWF reminds the UK prime minister of those good times in the Arctic ten years ago, when he promised to lead the greenest government ever
Global temperatures hit record 11 month hot streak
Average temperatures over the land and oceans in March were nothing short of remarkable, 1.22C above the historic average
Oceans warming too fast for Great Barrier Reef – study
Corals survived bleaching in the past as gradual warming gave time to adapt. That’s not so certain in the future
UN climate science body green-lights 1.5C report
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change accepts call for report on tough aspirational global warming threshold agreed in Paris
Scientific consensus on climate change still ‘overwhelmingly high’
NEWS; Review of influential 2013 paper that produced ‘97%’ figure reaches same conclusion: ‘the level of scientific agreement is overwhelmingly high’
Greenland sees record-smashing early ice sheet melt
NEWS: Scientists ‘incredulous’ at abnormally high numbers for April, with melting across nearly 12% of ice sheet
Save the Children: Ethiopia ‘deeply affected’ by climate change
NEWS: Famine-hit country faces worse drought in future, warns aid chief and former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Islands of Gauguin, Robinson Crusoe could become parched paradise
NEWS: Climate change could aggravate water shortages in three-quarters of world’s small islands by 2050, researchers warn
Gulf states win concessions in HFC phase-out talks
NEWS: Hot countries offered four-year grace period to comply with rules to replace potent warming gases in air conditioning
UN energy envoy urges investors to consider 1.5C warming limit
NEWS: Finance sector should be prepared for more aggressive emissions curbs to hit value of carbon majors, says Rachel Kyte
The UN’s climate science panel must adapt to stay relevant
COMMENT: We have got used to vast IPCC reports, but in the coming years tailored studies focused on land, cities and the 1.5C warming ceiling may be more useful to policy makers
World Bank, IPCC gather to discuss climate risks
CRIB NOTES 11-15 APRIL: UN climate science panel to debate 1.5C, World Bank/IMF spring meet, UN climate body outlines legal implications of Paris deal
Climate models ‘overestimate’ increase in wet and dry extremes
NEWS: Analysis of data stretching back 12 centuries reveals questions surrounding climate models that have linked wet and dry weather extremes to current temperature rise