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Economic damages from droughts in the EU and UK could rise by one third by the end of the century, new research finds –...
Explication: Le réchauffement climatique s’arrêtera-t-il dès que les émissions nettes seront nulles?
Les médias affirment souvent que le monde est confronté à un “réchauffement déjà acté pour l’avenir” en raison des émissions passées, ce qui signifie...
Limiting warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ land-ice contribution to sea level rise by 2100
Holding global temperature rise to no more than 1.5C – rather than following current emissions pledges – could halve the sea level rise from...
Guest post: Overshooting 2C risks rapid and unstoppable sea level rise from Antarctica
In 2015, governments from across the world committed to the Paris Agreement and its goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C or 2C. Yet,...
IEA: Mineral supplies for electric cars ‘must increase 30-fold’ to meet climate goals
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Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?
Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are...
Melting glaciers drove ‘21% of sea level rise’ over past two decades
Glacier melt across the world has accelerated over the past two decades, a new study finds, with the resulting meltwater accounting for 21% of...
Guest post: How to assess the multiple interacting risks of climate change
A key threat of a warming climate is that it does not pose one single risk, but rather it presents multiple, interacting risks.
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Guest post: A ‘Rosetta Stone’ for bringing land-mitigation pathways into line
Scientists know that the world’s land surface absorbs nearly a third of human-caused CO2 emissions each year. This carbon “sink” – mostly from forests...
China’s 2060 climate pledge is ‘largely consistent’ with 1.5C goal, study finds
New research has found that China’s pledge to achieve “carbon neutrality” before 2060 is “largely consistent” with the Paris Agreement’s aim of limiting global...
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