Global World News How Is The World Doing On Climate Change Not Great

The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what?

The Emissions Gap Report 2025 reveals that says that global temperatures are on track to exceed the most ambitious end of the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement. Read More

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

This was supposed to be the year that global greenhouse gas emissions reach their peak levels in order to limit warming to 1.5°C. Read More

World will overshoot 1.5 degree climate goal, UN says

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the United Nations’ Environment Programme said Tuesday. Read More

1. Impact of climate change

A 74% median across nine middle-income countries say global climate change is affecting their area, with droughts or water shortages a top concern. Read More

Global emissions are expected to decline - but not fast enough

UN predicts global emissions will drop by 2035—but the cuts fall far short of climate goals. COP30 will test global leaders' next move. Read More

Climate change is messing with global wind speeds, impacting planetary health

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Climate change is affecting global wind patterns in multiple ways, many of which have direct implications for human health. Worsening sand and dust ... Read More

As world leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake

In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how climate change is going to affect agriculture, extreme weather and other ... Read More

The World Needs a Climate Adaptation Breakthrough at COP30 | Opinion

Developing countries—led by the Least Developed Countries group—are calling for a tripling of international adaptation finance by 2030 (relative to 2022 levels). That call must be the benchmark for ... Read More

With warning lights flashing red, the world needs climate plans that will stick

As the September deadline for updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) passed, only 29 countries had submitted their plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Now, on ... Read More

The Climate Adaptation Crisis in Global Health

For the United States to address the global health risks posed by accelerating climate change, it will need to reframe climate adaptation as a pragmatic policy that can bridge partisan divides and ... Read More

Coral reef collapse drives world across first climate tipping point

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ... Read More

How the world changed in the decade since the Paris climate agreement

In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now — in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live ... Read More