Category: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in...

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World can still avoid worst of climate collapse with genuine change, IPCC says

Positive framing of otherwise grim report a counterblast to those who dismiss hopes of limiting global heating to 1.5C Avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown is still possible, and there are “multiple, feasible...

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Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out

Last-minute hitch on coal almost reduced Alok Sharma to tears as Glasgow climate pact made imperfect progressAs weary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday, few realised what a...

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Oil and coal-rich countries lobbied for changes to UN climate report, leak shows

States with large meat and dairy industries also attempted to amend IPCC’s report, documents sayCountries that produce coal, oil, beef and animal feed have been lobbying to water down a landmark UN climate report,...

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Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief

Alok Sharma says chance to limit worst impacts of climate breakdown ‘still achievable, but retreating fast’ The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output...

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Boris Johnson accused of climate crisis complacency after IPCC report

PM says UN report is ‘sobering reading’ but Labour say he is ‘failing to treat the crisis with the seriousness it deserves’Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest...

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Boris Johnson: IPCC climate report makes for sobering reading

Prime minister says warning from UN scientists should give world a wake-up call ahead of Cop26 summitMajor climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yetIPCC’s verdict on climate...

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World’s climate scientists to issue stark warning over global heating threat

IPCC’s landmark report will be most comprehensive assessment yet as governments prepare for pivotal UN talks in NovemberThe fires, floods and extreme weather seen around the world in recent months are just a foretaste of...

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