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'Adaptation is a must': 2024 confirmed as Europe's hottest year on record

Climate change

'Adaptation is a must': 2024 confirmed as Europe's hottest year on record

Latest report from Copernicus Climate Change service confirms Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent - but still almost a quarter of Brits think concerns over climate change have been exaggerated

clock 17 April 2025 • 6 min read
Climate impacts may be starting to spiral, but a sub-1.5C world is 'still possible'

Climate change

Climate impacts may be starting to spiral, but a sub-1.5C world is 'still possible'

World Meteorological Organisation report shows CO2 in atmosphere has reached its highest level in 800,000 years, but the world can still avoid a climate catastrophe

clock 19 March 2025 • 6 min read
WMO warns 2024's record heat pushing world past 1.5C threshold

Climate change

WMO warns 2024's record heat pushing world past 1.5C threshold

The world has not surpassed the Paris Agreement's 1.5C goal as it is based on long term average temperatures, but the first nine months of this year are likely to have breached the threshold

clock 11 November 2024 • 4 min read
UN: Weak national climate plans leave world 'miles short' of 2030 emissions goal

Climate change

UN: Weak national climate plans leave world 'miles short' of 2030 emissions goal

Deeply underpowered current national climate plans will lead to ‘human and economic trainwreck for every country, without exception’, UNFCCC head warns

clock 28 October 2024 • 6 min read
'Highway to climate hell': Scientists predict year-long breach of 1.5C limit before 2028

Climate change

'Highway to climate hell': Scientists predict year-long breach of 1.5C limit before 2028

UN Secretary-General warns decisions taken by leaders today will determine whether Paris Agreement goals can be met, as climate scientists fear temperature limits will be temporarily breached this decade

clock 05 June 2024 • 4 min read
On temperatures, tides, seaweed, and supermarkets

Risk

On temperatures, tides, seaweed, and supermarkets

The WMO's warning that the 1.5C warming threshold is set to be breached - at least temporarily - hits hard, but the lessons it contains should be obvious by now

clock 18 May 2023 • 3 min read
WMO warns economic losses from Asian extreme weather are 'rocketing'

Risk

WMO warns economic losses from Asian extreme weather are 'rocketing'

Economic losses from extreme weather hit $35bn in Asia last year and are set to worsen as water security threats intensify

clock 14 November 2022 • 3 min read
'Time is not on our side': How worsening climate impacts pose major threat to global energy security

Energy

'Time is not on our side': How worsening climate impacts pose major threat to global energy security

World Meteorological Organisation calls for doubling of clean energy supplies within eight years alongside increased focus on adaptation and resilience

clock 12 October 2022 • 4 min read
'Uncharted territory of destruction': WMO warns climate impacts are worsening as emissions rise

Climate change

'Uncharted territory of destruction': WMO warns climate impacts are worsening as emissions rise

New report warns world is 'heading in wrong direction' post-pandemic resulting in a 48 per cent chance the global 1.5C temperature goal could be temporarily breached in next five years

clock 13 September 2022 • 5 min read
'We are edging ever closer': World could temporarily hit 1.5C warming within five years, WMO warns

Climate change

'We are edging ever closer': World could temporarily hit 1.5C warming within five years, WMO warns

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

clock 10 May 2022 • 6 min read
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