Climate

Until 2020, the Kyoto Protocol is the world’s major political instrument to cut emissions and close the gap.

Planned coal plants would seriously threaten the global effort to halt climate change, and likely put beyond reach the Paris Agreement’s more ambitious aspiration to keep warming below 1.5°C.

Negotiators from over 100 countries are meeting in London this week to decide on an Initial Strategy to address greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.

Sport brings the world together. And it relies on common rules, governance and cooperation, making it a powerful metaphor for the global effort to tackle climate change, and a powerful tool for promoting the adoption of sustainable thinking, behaviours and outcomes.

Changing temperatures and rainfall are changing how people in rural communities find water, where they graze livestock, and how they find food.

The Cities IPCC conference highlighted the imperative role that cities need to play to mitigate the worst climate impacts.

If we don’t take meaningful and urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and so limit global temperature rise, then – as a new study from WWF and the University of East Anglia shows – we can expect devastating losses across every species group and on every continent.

In the run-up to the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, when the Peruvian government was preparing its official position, I remember the focus was squarely on biodiversity. As a tropical country, on the western edge of the Amazon rainforest, Peru saw biodiversity as an essential asset for its development, and as a crucial element of its […]

Poland will host COP24 in December this year. It will be the most important climate meeting since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015. But  it might not be what you’d expect.

Extreme weather. Water crises. Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse: these are some of our most pressing dangers, and climate change increases the risk.