Energy security fears prompted Beijing to rapidly accelerate coal power plans last year, raising concerns about the country’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions
An article claiming a landmark report on the consequences of warming past 1.5C had been watered down at the behest of big polluters has been slammed by authors
Latest version of major UN science report concludes the upper temperature goal of the Paris Agreement does not represent a climate safe zone
A draft summary of the most important climate science report of 2018, published here annotated with changes from the previous version
UN draft report says missing 1.5C warming target will multiply hunger, migration and conflict, but staying under will require unprecedented global cooperation
A new report has revised the ‘carbon budget’, apparently putting a 1.5C limit to warming within reach. But how useful is this measure?
Faint hopes for a 1.5C global warming limit to rescue low-lying island states from rising seas have been shattered by the US election result, say scientists
Top climate scientists have just under two years to deliver assessment of dangers and avoiding strategies for warming of 1.5C
Leading scientists say most people remain unaware of the truth that climate change is a stark reality now and will continue to get worse without drastic action
The tougher temperature goal was a great victory for the vulnerable countries in terms of global diplomacy and advocacy. Now comes the hard part of implementation
New report by world’s foremost authority on global warming likely to major on how countries can adjust to rising temperatures and weather extremes
Scientists to explore emission pathways that could lead to lower levels of global warming with IPCC study due in 2018
Warning that humans may already have emitted enough carbon dioxide to undermine the 1.5°C temperature rise threshold agreed by 195 nations last December
Political focus on tackling climate change has dropped since Paris talks, but need for urgent action remains writes Thoriq Ibrahim
Planet set for fifth successive warming year with average 1.21C temperature rises above 1850-1900 levels, a big increase on the 1.06C warming in 2015
Science underpinning the global treaty aiming to stop average temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels needs more research
World is almost certain to breach danger threshold for millions of vulnerable people, study finds
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change accepts call for report on tough aspirational global warming threshold agreed in Paris
NEWS: Island nations left distraught as major carbon polluters block report that suggested limiting temperature rises to well below 2C would be safer for millions
COMMENT: Scientists at Climate Analytics discuss the odds of avoiding temperature rises above 1.5C and 2C