Global carbon emissions look likely to increase in 2017

 The world's carbon emissions are expected to show a lurch upwards this year, by around 2%, after three years of staying virtually level. This...

Small global warming cuts offer huge savings

Everybody profits from a world that cuts global warming to only another half a degree. The challenge is to persuade nations to act. Californian scientists...

Macron convenes extra-ordinary climate change summit but activists say governments and businesses remain a...

As French President Emmanuel Macron launched a "One Planet Summit" in Paris to mark the second year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, activists from...

Human rights must be centre-stage as Paris climate change deal takes effect, UN experts...

Human rights must be central to the way the Paris climate change agreement is put into practice, a group of UN specialists has urged...

Least Developed Countries Group calls for COP23 to be a COP of Finance and...

The United Nations climate change negotiations will convene in Bonn, Germany, for COP23. Hosted by Fiji, the negotiations are a key milestone, with only...

COP22 – outcomes and reactions

The major UN climate negotiations of the year, COP22, are about to close in Marrakech with the highlight of the meeting being that countries,...