Climate change

In its first tranche of analysis, expert group calls for increased renewables rollout and significant improvements in energy productivity to keep warming under two degrees

'We can see no basis for downgrading the UK's ambition to reduce emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases'

CSIRO's Pep Canadell and Yingping Wang warn that hopes global 'greening' could offset the negative impacts of climate change will prove wide of the mark

Record-breaking number of nations sign Paris Agreement in New York, hailing treaty as a new chapter in the fight against climate change

Newspaper is losing people's trust on its global warming coverage, say group of UK's leading climate advisers and top scientists in letter to the editor

All-party group plans to encourage debate on the risks of overshooting ecological limits

WWF's Emma Pinchbeck argues climate action this year is essential to protect today's generation, as well as tomorrow's

New Climate Economy report sets out how Multilateral Development Banks have a crucial role to play in mobilising clean energy investment

Former DECC chief scientific adviser and author of acclaimed book 'Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air' died yesterday after year-long battle with cancer

Climate change science assessment body agrees to produce a special report on limiting temperature rise to 1.5C