Guest post: Who will deliver the negative emissions needed to avoid 2C warming?
Dr Glen Peters is a senior researcher at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Norway, and Dr Oliver Geden is head of...
Guest post: Dieter Helm’s review is not as radical as it might first appear
Matthew Bell is a director at Frontier Economics. From 2014 to 2017, he was the chief executive of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change.
Dieter...
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Reaction: Dieter Helm’s ‘least cost’ ideas for meeting the UK’s climate targets
Prof Dieter Helm has published his much-anticipated review of the “cost of energy”, which the UK government commissioned in August following a manifesto pledge...
Climate change threatens the survival of Madagascar’s bamboo lemurs
Climate change could threaten the food supply of bamboo lemurs, new research finds, leaving the animals vulnerable to starvation.
The greater bamboo lemur is a...
Analysis: How could the Agung volcano in Bali affect global temperatures?
While human activity has been the dominant driver of climate change over the past century, natural factors can influence short-term variations in global temperature.
Major...
Study: Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible
Bringing “extreme” poverty to an end will not jeopardise the chances of limiting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels, a new study says.
Pulling...
New York City could face damaging floods ‘every five years’ in a warmer climate
New York City could be struck by severe flooding up to every five years by 2030-45 if no efforts are made to curb human-driven...
In-depth: How will climate change affect animal sex ratios?
From habitat loss to extreme weather events, the world’s wildlife faces a list of challenges as a result of climate change.
But a growing field...
Renewables will give more people access to electricity than coal, says IEA
Around the world, more than a billion people still lack access to electricity.
This number is shrinking, down by one third since 2000, despite rising...
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