Global heating may breach 1.5°C in 2024 – here's what that could look like

From bleached corals to deadly heatwaves.

Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition • conversation
Jan. 11, 2024 ~6 min

Five major outcomes from the latest UN climate summit

Weak language at COP28 is at complete odds with the officially-recognised science.

Simon Chin-Yee, Lecturer in International Development, UCL • conversation
Dec. 14, 2023 ~9 min


The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels

The distinction between ‘abated’ and ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is crucial, yet remains ambiguous.

Lars J Nilsson, Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University • conversation
Dec. 13, 2023 ~7 min

COP28 president is wrong – science clearly shows fossil fuels must go (and fast)

To avert climate breakdown, most of the world’s coal, oil and gas must stay underground.

Steve Pye, Associate Professor in Energy Systems, UCL • conversation
Dec. 4, 2023 ~7 min

Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels – new research

For a two-in-three chance of staying within 1.5°C, the budget shrinks to one-and-a-half years.

Robin Lamboll, Research Fellow in Atmospheric Science, Imperial College London • conversation
Oct. 30, 2023 ~7 min

What El Niño means for the world's perilous climate tipping points

An El Niño event will turbo-charge global warming.

David Armstrong McKay, Researcher in Earth System Resilience, Stockholm University • conversation
July 10, 2023 ~8 min

Greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high and Earth is warming faster than ever – report

Our annual reports will update the world on the climate’s vital signs.

Piers Forster, Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds • conversation
June 8, 2023 ~6 min

After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past the 1.5 degrees global warming limit – here's what we can still do about it

A leading climate scientist explains why going over 1.5 degrees Celsius puts the world in a danger zone.

Peter Schlosser, Vice President and Vice Provost of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University • conversation
Nov. 22, 2022 ~8 min


COP26 left the world with a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

The world promised progress at the Glasgow climate conference. Now it has to turn those promises into reality. A former senior UN official describes what to watch for in the coming year.

Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Nov. 17, 2021 ~10 min

COP26 gave the world a climate to-do list: Here are 5 things to watch for in 2022

The world promised progress at the Glasgow climate conference. Now it has to turn those promises into reality. A former senior UN official describes what to watch for in the coming year.

Rachel Kyte, Dean of the Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Nov. 17, 2021 ~10 min

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