New and Existing pre-2020 Climate Policies Need to Be Scaled up for Paris Goals

The UN has published a new report that draws attention to concrete examples of successful climate policy implementation around the world and how these...

UN Climate Change Announces Key Partners Supporting COP23

UN Climate Change announced new key partners to back its work at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany in an effort...

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...

Climate change threatens China’s crops

In the recent UN Climate Summit, Vice Premier Zhang announced that China would double its commitment to a South-South cooperation fund specifically targeting climate...

Governments Enter New Era of Collaboration on Climate Change

Speaking at the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn (16 to 26 May), the UN’s top climate change official Christiana Figueres said...

Earth bears massive human load

Gross up the mass of all life on Earth, with its disproportionate human load, and the answer is staggeringly heavy. But the uncertainties are...