IPCC

'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Climate change

'Every fraction of warming matters': World careering towards irreversible climate impacts, top scientists warn

Landmark IPCC report provides wave of stark warnings, but stresses that rapidly putting the global economy on course to net zero emissions by 2050 could hugely reduce the escalating impacts that will result from a warmer world

clock 09 August 2021 • 10 min read
'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Climate change

'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Roundup of reaction from politicians, NGOs, and business figures as the world's top climate scientists serve up latest evidence on scale of potential climate cataclysm ahead

clock 09 August 2021 • 24 min read

BusinessGreen

1.5C or you're not getting in: Science Based Targets Initiative moves to strengthen approval process

Organisation says climate science means stricter approach to decarbonisation needed

clock 15 July 2021 • 3 min read

Science

Overlapping climate and nature crises must be tackled in tandem, UN panel warns

Landmark collaboration between UN science bodies warns that policies to date have failed to account for the interconnected nature of biodiversity loss and climate change

clock 10 June 2021 • 4 min read

Climate change

The 1.5C global warming limit is not impossible - but without political action it soon will be

The Paris Agreement's goals can be reached, but only with urgent action over the next decade

clock 04 May 2021 • 5 min read

Supplier

Impossible Foods brings former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres onto board

Appointment follows year of explosive growth for the plant-based 'meat' company, which has said it aims to eliminate the need for animal agriculture by 2035

clock 18 January 2021 • 2 min read

Investment

$5tr investor alliance calls for companies to ditch thermal coal

The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, which formed in 2019 at the Climate Action Summit in New York, has today warned companies that failure to respond to its position thermal coal could result in divestment

clock 06 November 2020 • 2 min read

Science

Sir David Attenborough: Curb inequality and 'capitalist excess' to safeguard climate

Veteran broadcaster calls for economic and societal shift in mindsets to avoid catastrophe in interview as £50m Earthshot Prize launches

clock 08 October 2020 • 3 min read

Science

Carbon concentrations still building despite Covid restrictions, UN report finds

Record atmospheric concentrations of CO2, continued growth in emissions and rising annual temperatures means the impact of Covid restrictions on overall climate trends is negligible, according to a new report synthesing findings from several scientific...

clock 09 September 2020 • 5 min read

Policy

Zoom in on Net Zero with Professor Michael E. Mann

World-renowned climate scientist and author joins BusinessGreen for a chat about climate justice, US politics, dealing with climate deniers, and the science behind net zero

clock 04 August 2020 • 1 min read