Global Warming

The new United Nations climate report provides insights into what needs to be done to avert some of the worst impacts of global warming. Between the lines: The key findings in the report that dropped yesterday are stark, but are not all doom and gloom. First: In the most jarring…

The chance to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis will be lost if global greenhouse gas emissions do not start to fall in less than three years, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned. Without “immediate and deep carbon emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global…

The United Nations’ climate change panel lambasted governments and corporations in its latest update, calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels, and at a faster clip, in order to avoid the worst impacts of warming. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…

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A bleak new report from the UN’s climate panel underscores the price the world is paying for the long delays in addressing global warming despite decades of warnings. Last year, worldwide energy-related carbon dioxide topped 36 billion tons, setting a new record as the global economy sprang back from the…

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A major new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls for an urgent shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy technologies in order to rein in global warming. Why it matters: The IPCC's assessment reports set the terms of the climate debate with world leaders, CEOs…

The goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees is no longer likely to be achieved, the latest report of the United Nations chief climate body says, though scientists still believe warming may be stabilised and returned under the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious warming target after a period of “overshoot”.…

Satellite image showing color infrared overview of fire lines south of Lame Deer, Montana in August 2021 The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared for the death and destruction such mega-blazes trail in their wake, the UN…

1of23FILE - Stephen Mudoga, 12, the son of a farmer, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya on March 17, 2021. Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet's greenhouse gas emissions but has…