Climate Change News

Hansen: 2C warming will raise sea level several metres

NEWS: Scientists warn feedback effects will melt polar ice faster than thought, causing “highly dangerous” impacts this century

NEWS: French government raises possibility of UN deal detailing implications of a trajectory to avoid dangerous warming

NEWS: President says pledge won’t need a “crystal ball” to work out, unlike submissions from South Korea and China

NEWS: Sir David King is putting pressure on fourth largest emitter to plan for cuts in two decades’ time

NEWS: Coalition of top oil and gas producers to “announce next steps” ahead of critical UN climate summit

CRIB NOTES JULY 20-24: France hosts high-level ministerial, Marshalls release INDC, UN posed for new text

ANALYSIS: Industries like cement and steel threaten to move jobs overseas if the price of emissions rises, in a challenge to climate goals

WEEKLY WRAP: All you need to know from the last seven days of international climate change and energy politics

NEWS: Tokyo has confirmed a target criticised by analysts as “inadequate” and less ambitious than it looks

COMMENT: Making the financial system work for the world’s poor is about more than just sending more money, says Achim Steiner

ANALYSIS: No new money pledged for world’s poor at key summit, casting climate goals into question

INTERVIEW: Conservative peer questions Lord Lawson’s care for poor, claims his budgets while chancellor suggest otherwise

ANALYSIS: The world’s gluttony is gushing carbon. Is it time to dial down excess and combat climate change?

NEWS: ‘Irresponsible’ to rely on techniques to strip carbon or reflect sunlight to slow global warming, EU analysis concludes

NEWS: Increasing cash available to poor countries seen as key to global climate deal, but NGOs say rich are not stepping up

NEWS: Lack of diversity on boards makes US oil majors particularly liable to ignore carbon risk, find Oxford University researchers

NEWS: Summary of negotiator meetings show broad strokes of global climate pact, though carbon cuts unlikely to be legally binding

NEWS: Environmentalists criticise freebies to polluters, while business lobby claims carbon costs will drive manufacturing overseas

NEWS: Islamic declaration adds to growing pressure religious leaders exert on richer nations to reduce impact on Earth’s climate

NEWS: Brussels says bloc will sign off beleaguered treaty before successor crafted at key climate summit