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

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: The world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions

Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn't countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on ... Read More

The World Is Moving Forward on Climate Action Whether Countries Like It or Not

To keep even a coin-flip chance of limiting warming to 1.5°C the world must cut emissions roughly 55% by 2035 compared to 2019 levels. Current national plans submitted within the COP process offer ... 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

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ... Read More

World strikes climate deal but fails to agree to a roadmap away from fossil fuels after contentious, chaotic summit

The COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, came to an agreement Saturday, but the final document makes no mention of fossil fuels, the primary cause of global climate change. Read More

Here’s what’s next in the fight to curb climate change, now that talks in Brazil have ended

Experts have mixed reactions to the recent U.N. climate talks in the Amazon. The talks, known as COP30, ended without a clear plan to phase out fossil fuels. U.N. Read More

How is the world doing on climate change? Not great

It's report card season for climate change. Each year, the United Nations takes stock of whether countries are on track to cut carbon emissions and limit global warming. The grade this year: needs ... Read More

U.S. rejection of climate science is a call to action for the rest of the world

The international community could agree to a universal tariff that would be imposed on nations that fail to cut greenhouse emissions by a specified amount. Read More

Innovation, not elimination, will solve the world’s climate woes

Western governments have made carbon cuts their mission, spending trillions pushing electric cars and unreliable wind and solar energy, but it’s barely making a dent. Time for major change. Read More

Is Climate Change an Existential Threat?

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ... Read More

Climate overshoot: What happens when the world gets too hot for too long?

Passing 1.5 degrees will hurt people more. It shows how climate overshoot increases risks for food, health, cities, and fragile communities. Read More