Global Warming

If we don’t act now, the Earth could warm enough to leave major cities underwater."We have the knowledge and the technology to get this done," experts concur. But politics gets in the way.These UN reports are considered the most authoritative assessments of the state of global warming.This week's United Nations climate…

The unit costs of solar energy have dropped 85% in a decade. Not only do we have the tools to slash emissions and curb global warming by 2030, but half of available carbon-cutting options are cost-free or very cheap, UN climate experts say. There is no silver bullet, but a…

The Global Climate and Health Alliance has issued its position on the Mitigation of Climate Change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The communique proposes drastic action to provide humanity with a chance to limit overall global warming to within Paris Agreement targets. In a statement on…

Published by Reuters By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) -Drastic cuts to fossil fuel use. Growing forests and eating less meat. These are just some of the actions needed in this decade to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures,…Read More

Illustration: Cathy WilcoxCredit: Your article on the latest IPCC report felt like the final nail in the coffin of the old world (“Goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees no longer plausible: UN”, smh.com.au, April 5). I was seven when World War II ended and too young to really…

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…