The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. An emissions gap persists, …
As per a leaked UN report, CO2 emissions have gone up to 95% from 90% in '07. The United Nations will be releasing its fifth assessment report (AR5) on climate change releasing this Friday, and it paints a grimmer picture of global warming that we had imagined. Despite questions from …
STOCKHOLM: The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change opened a meeting on Monday in Stockholm that is scheduled to see the release of the most recent projections of the pace of global warming. The organisation, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, brings together thousands of scientists and is …
Government representatives and scientists opened a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday to finalize a report assessing the evidence for climate change and its causes. The meeting, the culmination of four years’ work by hundreds of experts who have volunteered their time and expertise to …
Scientists working on a landmark UN report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even though greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. Leaked documents obtained by Associated Press show there are deep concerns among governments over how to …
Top climate scientists will blame mankind more clearly than ever for global warming next week but may struggle to drive home the message in a report that uses the term "uncertainty" 42 times. The 'language gap' between scientists and the policy makers, public and media they seek to alert is …
New research shows traditional IPCC models could be underestimating global warming due to feedbacks As the world awaits the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest verdict on the state of the climate, new research out this year finds that climate change could have double the impact previously thought. The …
Monsoon rainfall, crucial for food production in India, is expected to intensify in the future and the rainy season is likely to be longer, according to the draft report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A leaked draft of the first of three reports comprising the Intergovernmental Panel on …
About eight in 10 stories contain some discussion of uncertainties and risk, according to Oxford analysis The uncertainties of climate change science have become a major focus of media coverage on the subject, a new study shows. About eight in 10 stories on climate change and related scientific research contain …
The presentation by Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE at "CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013" being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
Some parts of nature and human society are more vulnerable than expected to climate change, according to a draft of a U.N. report that adds a new purple color to a key diagram to show worsening risks beyond the red used so far. It says "unique and threatened systems" like …
Eleven days before the IPCC publishes its latest report, a group of eminent scientists says there is massive evidence of human responsibility With the IPCC report not yet published, there is already heated debate about what it will say, and about the implications of its findings for human development. The …
The global climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to a leaked draft of the to-be-released fifth assessment report (AR-5) on global warming. The revelation, on the face of it, would seem that developing …
Climate scientists are more certain that ever before that global warming is being caused by human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels. A leaked draft of the first of three reports comprising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report states that it is “at least 95% likely” …
Behind 73% Of Greenhouse Emissions New Delhi: Fifty of the 500 biggest listed companies in the world account for emission of 73% of 3.6 billion metric tonnes of greenhouse gases (GHG), says a report that was released on Thursday. And, these emitters primarily operate in energy, materials and utilities sectors …
A new climate change study released by Anna University predicts a 3.5 degree Celsius temperature rise in Tamil Nadu by the end of this century. Minimum increase in temperature will be about 3.1 degrees Celsius. It also says temperature will rise by one degree within 30 years and that sea …
The strongest scientific warning to date that global warming is man-made may have a muted impact when it is released later this month with many governments more focused on nursing weak economies than on fixing the planet. Many are also still smarting from a failure to agree a global pact …
Questions being raised over urgency of situation but report affirms man-made climate change is reality The climate has not been warming over the past 15 years at rates predicted earlier, the U.N.’s Integrated Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, to be released September end, is going to say. The …
US and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show. They're requesting that more details on the so-called “hiatus” be included in a key …
Use this interactive guide prepared by Duncan Clark to find out how the planet will become in your lifetime. This is based on data from IPCC climate change report 2013. Click here and enter your year of birth to see the changes for yourself.
PARIS: A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Due to be unveiled in Stockholm on September 27, the …
