National pledges to reduce harmful emissions offer little hope of avoiding climate disaster, UN climate experts said on Thursday, in an urgent…
With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed progress on countries’ past emissions commitments. Severe disruption would be…
During a private meeting of Heads of State and Government, held on Wednesday at UN Headquarters in New York, UN…
“Climate science is clear: we are heading in the wrong direction”, declares a major, multi-agency UN climate science report released…
In a global first, Brazil’s supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the…
Despite increased climate ambition and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of energy from fossil…
Unless wealthy nations commit to tackling emissions now, the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” to 2.7-degrees of heating by…
COVID-19 did not slow the relentless advance of climate change. There is no sign that we are growing back greener,…
The UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which…
Odds are increasing that the annual average global temperature will rise beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, in at least one…