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Feb 21, 2025

News

In Trump’s shadow, IPCC set to make key decision on timing of climate science review

With the US not expected to show up at the IPCC meeting, countries have a final chance to agree whether assessment reports could inform the next UN scorecard of climate action

Aug 5, 2024

Politics

IPCC’s input into key UN climate review at risk as countries clash over timeline

Most governments want reports ready before the next global stocktake, but a dozen developing nations are opposed over inclusivity concerns

Mar 3, 2025

Science

Countries fail again to decide timing of key IPCC climate science reports

China, Saudi Arabia and India pushed back against a proposal to align the IPCC flagship reports with the timeline of the global stocktake of climate action

Jul 31, 2024

Comment

The IPCC must produce its flagship report in time for the next UN global stocktake

An IPCC author from the Global South on why aligning the two timelines is crucial for the integrity of international climate cooperation

Jan 22, 2024

Politics

Governments fail to agree timeline for climate science reports in fraught IPCC talks

Saudi, India and China led opposition against a proposal to link the IPCC’s assessment cycle with the global stocktake, sources told Climate Home.

Mar 22, 2023

Justice

Nations fight to be called climate vulnerable in IPCC report

Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies

Mar 20, 2023

Politics

IPCC highlights rich nations’ failure to help developing world adapt to climate change

Scientists say funding needs to increase ‘many-fold’ in order to reach climate goals and protect communities disproportionately affected by global warming

Mar 27, 2014

Energy

Arctic shipping lanes open for four months by 2050 – IPCC

NEWS: Shorter shipping route could cut emissions and the costs of trade, but with increased environmental risks

Mar 27, 2014

Science

Climate change could drive decline in Brazil’s coffee exports

NEWS: Traditional farmlands face uncertain future in country that produces 1 in 3 cups of coffee worldwide

Mar 26, 2014

Science

Long-term sea level rise will be much higher, but barely studied – IPCC

IPCC: Sea levels are expected to rise 2.3m for every 1C increase in temperature, the UN’s science report will warn next week

Mar 26, 2014

Science

Asia’s great cities face rising flooding risks in warming world

NEWS: Draft of IPCC’s forthcoming report highlights rising seas as acute risk for China, India, Thailand and Vietnam

Mar 26, 2014

Politics

UN climate science report will highlight ‘limits to adaptation’

NEWS: Focus on limits to adaptation within the new IPCC report could sharpen focus on loss and damage within UN talks

Mar 25, 2014

Science

Ten reasons why food will be scarce in a warmer world

NEWS: Oxfam scores the world on its action so far to help farmers prepare for the shocks of climate change

Mar 25, 2014

Science

Climate change experts start IPCC deliberations in Japan

NEWS: Delegates from over 100 countries are in Yokohoma to discuss latest UN study on climate risk

Mar 25, 2014

News

Climate change could devastate Africa crop yields

NEWS: Draft of IPCC’s forthcoming report reveals droughts, floods, famines and health impacts from a warming world

Mar 19, 2014

Science

Extreme heat waves pose threat to wheat and maize yields – study

Global climate impact assessments are not factoring in negative affects from warming on crops, say scientists

Mar 19, 2014

News

Scientists hint at negative impacts of climate change on farming

Forthcoming UN science study could reveal median crop yields may fall by up to 2% per decade for the rest of century

Jan 31, 2014

News

China unhappy with ‘carbon budget’ reference in IPCC review

Chinese government objected to scientists including carbon budget in IPCC Summary for Policymakers, documents reveal

Jan 17, 2014

Science

Leaked UN climate report calls for rapid switch to clean energy

Limiting global warming to safe levels could cost 4% of global output says study, warning emissions must drop 40-70%

Jan 16, 2014

News

UN climate experts warn geoengineering may be essential

Thursday’s top 5: World may need to suck CO2 out of air, China becomes one of world’s largest historical emitters, senators push for Keystone approval

Nov 10, 2013

Comment

Rajendra Pachauri: Warsaw summit must take note of IPCC report

Chief of UN climate science body says negotiators should base their discussions on the scientific findings of recent IPCC AR5 report

Nov 8, 2013

News

Brazil’s emissions fall to lowest level since 1992

Morning summary: Brazil greenhouse gas emissions are the lowest in 20 years; IPCC needs to be more courageous when presenting findings at COP19

Nov 4, 2013

News

IPCC: climate change poses threat to global food supplies

Morning summary: Draft of 2014 IPCC report lays out effects of climate change on food supplies; Australian government approves coal mining project; Kyoto diplomats say little change of effective UN deal

Oct 28, 2013

Energy

World could ‘phase out’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050

In just 27 years from now researchers believe the world will have emitted the last tonne of CO2

Oct 21, 2013

Nature

Amazon decline worse than IPCC projections

Researchers from Texas found Amazonia’s dry season has lasted a week longer each decade since 1979 due to climate change

Oct 9, 2013

Science

Saudi efforts to weaken IPCC report in Stockholm exposed

Leading oil producer tried to dilute scientific conclusions during Stockholm meeting, questioning link between CO2 and warming

Oct 4, 2013

Science

IPCC’s growing confidence is ‘not a question of grade inflation’

Scientists have upped certainty in human-induced climate change to 95% in latest IPCC, and with good reason, says leading climate scientist

Oct 4, 2013

Comment

Pantomime to tragedy: was 2013 the year climate politics got real?

Oxford researcher Christopher Shaw asks why this week’s IPCC report seems to have had so little impact on world leaders

Oct 3, 2013

Nature

Ocean acidfication impacts ‘worse than thought’ say scientists

New review agrees with the IPCC that the oceans are absorbing warming caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

Oct 2, 2013

Politics

IPCC carbon budget sets countries tough challenge

For the first time UN scientists have set a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be released – but is there a short-term alternative?

Oct 1, 2013

Science

IPCC report offers a chance to pause – for thought and action

Those who question the seriousness of the threat which climate change presents have a very strange idea of the risks they think are acceptable