Climate Change News

Climate change could wipe out 1 in 6 of planet’s species

NEWS: Wildlife facing extinction set to accelerate every extra degree world overheats, report finds

NEWS: Officials say Paris climate deal depends on effective GCF, but without cash warn they cannot invest in developing countries

NEWS: Senate majority leader McConnell attacks legal footing of US headline carbon-cutting policy in Capitol Hill hearing

NEWS: Drought-hit state is aiming to match EU carbon reduction, in move that could help US overachieve its federal commitments

NEWS: Experts disagree on whether to make polluters pay for unavoided climate change impacts on vulnerable communities

NEWS: Tackling rise of greenhouse gas emissions ranks alongside terrorism, promoting economic growth and building open and democratic societies

NEWS: Former UK climate envoy appeals to Japanese premier Shinzo Abe to change course and offer tough emissions goal for Paris

BLOG: Nigel Lawson, James Delingpole and Melanie Phillips feature in provocative work awarded Anglia Ruskin sustainability art prize

NEWS: New initiative to stop gas being flared off from oil production sites could prevent release millions of tonnes of emissions

COMMENT: Climate change may constitute the most serious challenge to the fulfilment of human rights in our world today

NEWS: Supreme court tells ministers to take “immediate action” to meet safe limits of nitrogen dioxide 25 years after original deadline

NEWS: United States, China, India, Russia, Australia, and Saudi Arabia to probe risks of stranded assets ahead of UN climate pact

NEWS: Lack of rules and regulations meant earthquake warnings were ignored, say local experts, leaving communities vulnerable to disasters

NEWS: Related deaths and diseases cost European economies $1.6 trillion a year, World Health Organization finds, calling on leaders to enact curbs

NEWS: Atomic energy’s role in power generation won’t recover to pre-Fukushima levels, opening door for coal and gas

NEWS: Burning coal, oil and gas will create “existential risk” for billions warn Vatican’s top science academies in historic call for action

NEWS: UN secretary general stresses the scientific consensus on climate change and praises Pope Francis’ leadership at Vatican summit

COMMENT: India’s cities are famed for their pollution, but it doesn’t have to be this way with clever planning

NEWS: Funders, not communities, set the agenda for projects to boost resilience to increasingly extreme weather in poor countries

NEWS: The difference between two options on reforms to key climate policy is 153 million tonnes CO2, say analysts