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Risk of reaching totemic climate threshold set out in the Paris Agreement on at least one of next five years now at 50 per cent, research shows

New report suggests urgent and focused action is needed to protect global heath as climate impacts and risks escalate

Comments come as climate scientists mull mitigation options ahead of IPCC report

As countries meet in New York this week to discuss marine environmental protection efforts, campaigners are demanding a fresh global treaty to tackle the problem

Campaigners are stepping up calls for a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, as evidence grows that voluntary measures are struggling to turn the tide of plastic waste

A new report finds that annual spending on nature-based solutions needs to increase by 140 per cent, with special attention paid to investment in non-G20 countries

Climate crisis should take diplomatic priority even where there may be fraught geopolitical tensions over challenging issues such as human rights, former UN Secretary-General suggests

Scheme is announced just days after France and UK announce joint space mission that will see a satellite launched into orbit to monitor levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Hundreds of thousands turn out on streets of Glasgow, but crunch talks at the Summit remain on a knife edge as diplomats wrestle with numerous outstanding issues

IEA estimates flurry of net zero commitments put 1.8C of warming within reach, but other projections are less optimistic and many contentious issues remain far from resolved as the Glasgow Summit nears its halfway point