The IPCC’s latest report shows we have the tools to make fast cuts in emissions – all that’s missing is the political will Environment | Analysis 5 April 2022 By Adam Vaughan Odervorland wind energy park in Germany PATRICK PLEUL/DPA/AFP via Getty Images The message is very clear. In three […]
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The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in the room looming over the release of the third and final report, out this week, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading climate authority. The major source of contention: how do you talk […]
April 4 (Reuters) – Cities are driving the human-caused climate change that threatens the global environment, but also offer hope. That is the overriding message of a chapter devoted to cities in a major U.N. report on climate change released on Monday, providing city planners around the world guideposts aimed […]
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is […]
The dangers of climate change have been well reported for years. But what’s had less attention is how the world could effectively tackle the issue, Yesterday, UN scientists laid out a plan that they believe could help people avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures. The report, by the UN’s […]
An employee works among solar panels at Bemol Solar plant outside Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on August 23, 2021.Bruno Kelly/Reuters The world can turn around the climate crisis this decade, hundreds of scientists concluded in a major UN report. To avert the worst climate catastrophes, the world has three years […]
From wildfires to sea level rise and heat waves, climate change is having a dramatic impact on the environment and people’s health and well-being. So what can the world do about it? That’s the focus of the third and final report — released Monday — from a recent cycle of […]
Rapidly shifting away from the fossil fuels that have underpinned economies for more than a century will require nations to do much more, however. Over the next decade, governments and companies would need to invest three to six times the roughly $600 billion they currently spend annually on encouraging clean […]