Paris Agreement

'The next few years are probably the most important in our history'

Two forthcoming major climate talks offer governments an opportunity to respond to this year's extreme weather with decisive action

Building materials giant announces new targets to cut emissions 10 per cent by 2025

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

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

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

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

French President rejects isolationism and calls for global unity on tackling climate change in passionate speech to UN General Assembly

Rich countries must scale up efforts to cut carbon emissions, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development tells world leaders in New York

Ahead of UN General Assembly this week Japanese Prime Minister ramps up pressure for nations to cut carbon emissions, following a summer of deadly extreme weather