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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

What Global Climate Action Looks Like at COP30 Without the U.S.

Greetings from São Paulo where corporate executives from around the world have gathered ahead of this year’s United Nations climate talks—known as COP30. This is my second stop in a two-week trip to ... Read More

At U.N. climate summit, world leaders say time is running short to stop the worst effects of warming

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sought to convince world powers to mobilize enough funds to halt the ongoing destruction of climate-stabilizing tropical rainforests. 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

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 Six World Leaders Are Confronting Climate Change

The leaders told us how they are facing a warming planet in a world where international collaboration on climate change is fraying. By David Gelles I host the Climate Forward newsletter and live event ... Read More

The World’s Newsrooms Can Learn From Bill McKibben’s Climate Journalism

Traditional journalists complain that he is an advocate—the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate. This story is part of The 89 Percent Project of Covering Climate Now , a ... Read More