Climate change

Policy

CCC boss Chris Stark: 'The threat of being ignored keeps me awake at night'

CEO of the Committee on Climate Change ponders 1.5C targets, Whitehall governance, and how capitalism can operate in a zero carbon future

clock 05 October 2018 • 17 min read

Climate change

Leaked US critique of climate report sets stage for political showdown in Korea

Confidential government feedback casts doubt on scientific models, pushes domestic energy priorities and questions economic basis for climate action

clock 04 October 2018 • 6 min read

Climate change

Report: No country is decarbonising fast enough to meet Paris Agreement targets

New analysis from PwC shows UK and China are fastest decarbonisers, but no country is moving quickly enough to avert dangerous climate change

clock 04 October 2018 • 3 min read

Policy

Reports: IPCC to call for urgent action to achieve 1.5 trajectory

Hotly anticipated report due next week from global panel of top climate scientists expected to recommend urgent action to stem catastrophic climate change

clock 01 October 2018 • 1 min read

Legislation

Trump administration acknowledges 4C warming risk, to justify higher vehicle emissions

Washington Post reveals draft statement accepts risk of extreme climate change, and uses it to argue there is no point trying to curb emissions

clock 01 October 2018 • 4 min read

Policy

No more BS: All the headlines from Climate Week New York

Ed King reports back from a New York Climate Week where the rhetoric on decarbonisation as decisively shifted up a gear

clock 28 September 2018 • 4 min read

Politics

Net Zero: UK joins global 'carbon neutral' drive

UK, Canada, Denmark and Spain join Carbon Neutrality Coalition, pledging to develop net zero emissions plans

clock 27 September 2018 • 5 min read

Climate change

World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target

Key UN report says limiting temperature rise would require enormous, immediate transformation in human activity

clock 27 September 2018 • 4 min read

Politics

Net zero emissions by 2050 is 'within reach' for Europe

Hitting net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is feasible but needs radical action across Europe's economy, new study concludes

clock 27 September 2018 • 2 min read

Climate change

Study: Delaying climate action will drive up cost of meeting 1.5C goal

UK academic paper argues cost-benefit analysis remains challenging, but delaying emissions reductions only drives up cost of meeting Paris goals

clock 27 September 2018 • 4 min read