Australia won’t give money to Green Climate Fund, says PM
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Leaked EU strategy at odds with IPCC climate report, says European NGO
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A leaked draft of the EU’s proposed long-term climate strategy shows that the bloc’s targets do not line up with the urgency of action needed to...
Budget 2019: Where does the environment fit?
October 8th, 2018
Over the past week, opposition parties launched their alternative budget proposals, with the housing crisis taking centre stage, as well as proposals...
Bolsonaro has made grim threats to the Amazon and its people
Presidential favourite would abolish Brazil's environment ministry, exposing world's largest rainforest and its indigenous owners to criminal gangs of loggers and miners
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Economics Nobel goes to inventor of models used in UN 1.5C report
William Nordhaus originated the idea of a 2C global warming limit but last year cast doubt on our ability to reach it. He shares...
Analysis: Why the IPCC 1.5C report expanded the carbon budget
Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity have already raised global temperatures by around 1C since pre-industrial times. This leaves a rapidly shrinking “carbon budget”...
IPCC Report: Findings show needs to improve our ‘dismal’ climate record
October 8th, 2018
New findings that far-reaching emission cuts can limit global warming to 1.5°C highlights the need for Ireland to rapidly improve its “dismal”...
IPCC Report: 1.5°C limit achievable with ‘rapid and far-reaching’ emissions cuts
October 8th, 2018
Rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes across all sectors of society can limit global warming to below the 1.5°C threshold, leading climate scientists have...
The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial
A cartoon illustration of the Trump administration’s climate policy logic Illustration: John Cook
Several years ago, I wrote about the five stages of climate denial. To...
37 things you need to know about 1.5C global warming
The UN climate science panel has released its summary of the evidence around the tougher climate goal demanded by vulnerable countries. We break it...
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