We are banking on costly, speculative ‘negative emissions technologies’ to make climate strategies add up
Thinking in a Climate Emergency: Renewables, energy efficiency and ending fossil-fuel reliance do help cut CO2
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Only two years left to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees target, scientists warn
World is currently on track for 2.7 degrees of global heating and a ramping up of extreme weather
Key Paris climate pact target at 1.5 degrees ‘too high for polar ice sheets’
Mass loss in ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica is the biggest driver of global sea-level rise
Pope Francis’s green legacy is his radical encyclical Laudato Si’ that upended centuries of Catholic teaching
Published in 2015, Laudato Si’ spoke of our serious moral responsibility to protect the planet
The reality of life at ‘just’ 1.5 degrees of warming
While politicians across Europe skirt their climate commitments, millions of people are already at risk from increasingly chaotic and dangerous weather events
How Donald Trump ripped up US climate action plans
At a Time of Climate Crisis: The US president has been making false and misleading claims on wind energy for nearly a decade
Record heat of last year unlikely to be a one-off, scientists warn
World may already be in period where Paris climate pact target of keeping temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees is breached sooner than anticipated
Climate summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’ in addressing crisis, say former political leaders and scientists
Large scale of Cops summits now ‘beyond crazy’ says key participant, who could only justify flying to event because of being directly involved in scientific work
Global South must be saved from fossil fuels and other climate-harming practices
Ethiopia is among many countries suffering hunger, poverty and misery due to the Global North’s destruction of the planet and its banks financing damaging agricultural programmes and fossil fuel expansion
If warnings about Atlantic ocean circulation are correct, Irish people could become climate migrants
New studies say a dramatic drop in temperatures here could happen a lot sooner than previously feared
Climate change: Earth bakes in heat 1.5 degrees above preindustrial average for 12 months, data shows
Temperature results are a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the Earth’s climate, says the Copernicus Climate Change Service
The ‘vile’ abuse of Eamon Ryan has chilling effect on climate action
Climate denial content has increased, undermining climate solutions and casting doubt on climate science
How do we cut through the ‘white noise’ of climate change?
Helen Shaw makes the case for the power of imagination and storytelling
Climate Cops hitting peak capacity may prompt scale-back of UN negotiating process
Logistical problems coinciding with concerns about not fit for purpose decision making with deck stacked heavily on side of carbon polluters
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