This briefing looks at what the 1.5°C limit means in terms of adaptation and loss and damage for the most vulnerable countries and regions. It finds that slowing down warming is critical to buy us time
African countries, which do least to fuel global warming but will feel its effects the hardest, must be given special consideration at next week's climate change summit, a senior U.N. official said
Three years after the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions, negotiators will begin talks next week on how to give it some teeth. Some 180 nations will take part in the U.N. climate change
China has stepped up efforts to alleviate choking smog in its cities, but should do more to cut the emission of greenhouse gases, believed to be a key cause of global warming, according to officials
UK scientists will sound a new alarm on climate change by identifying a feedback effect that could make global warming happen much more quickly than expected. The researchers from the Meteorolgical
A top environmental agency does not want "carbon sinks", where forests absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, endorsed under a UN convention on climate change. Saksit Tridech, secretary-general of the
A UK climatologist has launched a scathing attack on the developed world's "self-serving ideology" in tackling climate change. The scientist, Dr Mick Kelly, accuses the rich of patronising the poor,
Australia's attempts to meet its Kyoto greenhouse gas targets have been slammed by a Senate Committee. The environment committee's report on global warming says Australia has the highest emissions
Flooded rice fields are adding gases to the atmosphere that are contributing to climate change and the destruction of the ozone layer, American scientists claim. Researchers from the University of
Global warming feeds fire potential : Global warming may greatly accelerate the fire cycle in the desert ecosystem of North America, according to a study published in the journal Nature. Elevated
Deposits of methane gas so large they are capable of influencing the greenhouse effect and possibly sinking ships have been discovered by Dutch scientists in submarine lakes and mud volcanoes under
