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Climate change experts start IPCC deliberations in Japan
NEWS: Delegates from over 100 countries are in Yokohoma to discuss latest UN study on climate risk
Climate change could devastate Africa crop yields
NEWS: Draft of IPCC’s forthcoming report reveals droughts, floods, famines and health impacts from a warming world
Extreme heat waves pose threat to wheat and maize yields – study
Global climate impact assessments are not factoring in negative affects from warming on crops, say scientists
Scientists hint at negative impacts of climate change on farming
Forthcoming UN science study could reveal median crop yields may fall by up to 2% per decade for the rest of century
China unhappy with ‘carbon budget’ reference in IPCC review
Chinese government objected to scientists including carbon budget in IPCC Summary for Policymakers, documents reveal
Leaked UN climate report calls for rapid switch to clean energy
Limiting global warming to safe levels could cost 4% of global output says study, warning emissions must drop 40-70%
UN climate experts warn geoengineering may be essential
Thursday’s top 5: World may need to suck CO2 out of air, China becomes one of world’s largest historical emitters, senators push for Keystone approval
Rajendra Pachauri: Warsaw summit must take note of IPCC report
Chief of UN climate science body says negotiators should base their discussions on the scientific findings of recent IPCC AR5 report
Brazil’s emissions fall to lowest level since 1992
Morning summary: Brazil greenhouse gas emissions are the lowest in 20 years; IPCC needs to be more courageous when presenting findings at COP19
IPCC: climate change poses threat to global food supplies
Morning summary: Draft of 2014 IPCC report lays out effects of climate change on food supplies; Australian government approves coal mining project; Kyoto diplomats say little change of effective UN deal
World could ‘phase out’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050
In just 27 years from now researchers believe the world will have emitted the last tonne of CO2
Amazon decline worse than IPCC projections
Researchers from Texas found Amazonia’s dry season has lasted a week longer each decade since 1979 due to climate change
Saudi efforts to weaken IPCC report in Stockholm exposed
Leading oil producer tried to dilute scientific conclusions during Stockholm meeting, questioning link between CO2 and warming
IPCC’s growing confidence is ‘not a question of grade inflation’
Scientists have upped certainty in human-induced climate change to 95% in latest IPCC, and with good reason, says leading climate scientist
Pantomime to tragedy: was 2013 the year climate politics got real?
Oxford researcher Christopher Shaw asks why this week’s IPCC report seems to have had so little impact on world leaders
Ocean acidfication impacts ‘worse than thought’ say scientists
New review agrees with the IPCC that the oceans are absorbing warming caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
IPCC carbon budget sets countries tough challenge
For the first time UN scientists have set a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be released – but is there a short-term alternative?
IPCC report offers a chance to pause – for thought and action
Those who question the seriousness of the threat which climate change presents have a very strange idea of the risks they think are acceptable
Comment: IPCC will show Australia that physics trumps politics
IPCC won’t turn Abbott into an environmentalist, but its impact will endure beyond the Coalition, says Erwin Jackson of Australia’s Climate Institute
UN climate report: what are the IPCC’s main messages?
The IPCC’s latest report looks at the challengess facing the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere sea levels as well as analysing other drivers of climate change