What you need to know about the big UN climate report out today

By Michael Le Page

Why is this report coming out now?
When the Paris climate agreement was being negotiated in 2015, island nations facing obliteration from rising seas demanded swifter action. To get them on board, countries agreed not just to try to limit warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, but also “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels”.

That seems reasonable
It actually took climate scientists by surprise, given that the world had already warmed by 1°C and that no countries …

🕐 Top News in the Last Hour By Importance Score

#	Title	📊 i-Score
1	Trump says the U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran as he insists Tehran can't get nuclear weapons	🟢 82 / 100
2	Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf	🔴 78 / 100
3	US top court allows Trump to use wartime law for deportations	🔴 75 / 100
4	Grand National winner banned from receiving prize money and denied huge payday	🔴 72 / 100
5	Piers Morgan announces 'breaking news' as Donald Trump starts new party in tariff war	🔴 72 / 100
6	Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event	🔴 65 / 100
7	Altar found in Guatemalan jungle evidence of mingling of Mayan and Teotihuacan cultures, experts say	🔴 65 / 100
8	Real Madrid get sharp wake-up call over their reliance on fine margins \| Sid Lowe	🔵 60 / 100
9	Cops called as A Minecraft Movie sends kids into chicken jockey frenzies	🔵 55 / 100
10	Scientists breakthrough as mystery over two huge continents torn apart could be solved	🔵 45 / 100

View More Top News ➡️