Climate change

Politicians, business leaders, economists, and climate campaigners offer their take on UNEP's report warning the world is now all but certain to 'overshoot' the 1.5C global warming threshold

UNEP sets out 'best-case' scenario of 1.8C for global average temperature rise, but maintains world can still limit, adapt to, and eventually reduce warming to or below 1.5C threshold in future

UK Prime Minister becomes one of first world leaders to confirm attendance at this year's UN Climate Summit in Türkiye

Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change

ECIU warns extreme heat and drought have had 'devastating' impact on crop yields once again in 2026, following difficult harvests in 2024 and 2025

Increase in severity of storms, floods, wildfires and more - as well as rising property values and insurance costs - spurs surge in modelled losses from natural catastrophes in a given year, according to Verisk

Campaign group delivers open letter signed by almost 30,000 people to Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Africa set for solar installation record, experts warn climate change is destabilising mountain regions, and Spain proposes clean energy rule for data centres

Garden centre sales increased by just over 10 per cent during sweltering July, but water and waste costs also spiked

Drought Resilience Investment Facility and Drought Resilience Index unveiled at UN desertification summit in Mongolia