Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update
<p>WMO released new climate predictions on global temperatures in the next five years.The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1° Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900)
Global Warming
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Building a Paris Agreement Compatible (PAC) energy scenario
<p>The Paris Agreement Compatible (PAC) scenario illustrates a pathway for the transition of the EU’s energy system that is in line with EU leaders’ commitment to the Paris Agreement. A new
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More frequent summer heat waves in southwestern China linked to the recent declining of Arctic sea ice
<p>Southwestern China (SWC) has suffered from increasing frequency of heat wave (HW) in recent summers. While the local drought-HW connection is one obvious mechanism for this change, remote controls remain
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Milking the Planet: How big dairy is heating up the planet and hollowing rural communities
<p>Thirteen of the world’s largest dairy corporations combined to emit more greenhouse gases (GHGs) in 2017 than major polluters BHP, the Australia-based mining, oil and gas giant or ConocoPhillips,
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Overview Of The ICAT Series Of Assessment Guides
<p>The unprecedented challenge of climate change requires rapid and deep transformations – in virtually all sectors and all parts of society – away from the prevailing carbon-intensive, high-emission
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Fluorinated greenhouse gases 2019
<p>The 2019 edition of the European Environment Agency (EEA) report on fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) confirms the good progress achieved in 2018 by the European Union (EU) in phasing-down the
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New research finds slow climate progress in high-emitting industries
<p>New research by the Transition Pathway Initiative finds that 29% of the largest publicly-listed industrial companies are set to align their emissions with the Paris Pledges by 2030, up from 24% in mid-2018.These
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Record-setting ocean warmth continued in 2019
<p>Human-emitted greenhouse gases (GHGs) have resulted in a long-term and unequivocal warming of the planet. More than 90% of the excess heat is stored within the world’s oceans, where it accumulates
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Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change
<p>Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia, raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic climate <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/WWA-attribution_bushfires-March2020.pdf"
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Causes of higher climate sensitivity in CMIP6 models
<p>Equilibrium climate sensitivity, the global surface temperature response to CO$_2$ doubling, has been persistently uncertain. <a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/climate-sensitivity.pdf"