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UN report: Global climate ambitions "off target"

A new UN report shows that global temperatures continue to rise despite a slight slowdown in emissions. It reiterates the call for countries to be more ambitious on climate action. As global leaders ... Read More

How a Global ‘Climate Reset’ Could Change the Fight Against Warming

“Climate change is not the biggest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people in poor countries, and it won’t be in the future,” Gates wrote, infuriating many in the climate movement. University of ... Read More

World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United ... Read More

The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore

So-called “short-lived climate pollutants”, or SLCPs, are emitted in various ways and many of them have the same sources as CO2. The common ground is that they typically don’t stay in the atmosphere ... Read More

The World Is Failing Its 2025 Paris Agreement Target. Now What?

Flames stretched hundreds of feet into the air as the Park fire approached in Tehama County's Mill Creek area of California Aug. 7, 2024.JOSH EDELSON/AFP—Getty Images Reporter Ten years ago the world ... Read More

UN General Assembly chief says curbing climate change would make world more peaceful and safer

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Harms from climate change are the biggest threat to world peace, the president of the United Nations General Assembly says. “To those who are arguing that in these times we have ... Read More

A new global ruling shows states are legally responsible for tackling climate change

Amelia Hadfield is working with environmental law researchers Rosalind Malcolm and Feja Lesniewska to explore both the political and legal implications of the ICJ's recent ruling on state behaviour at ... Read More

Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.

This year’s U.N. climate talks are being held in Brazil. So far, they’ve been noteworthy for who isn’t attending. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. This week, leaders from around the world ... Read More

Pope Leo calls for global action to tackle climate change a day after wading into US political debate

Pope Leo XIV has called for pressure to be placed on governments to protect the environment as he stressed that damaging the natural world is incompatible with the Christian faith in a speech at a ... Read More

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies. President Donald Trump rebuked world leaders for being overly concerned about ... Read More