Climate Change
Big companies commit to slash emissions ahead of U.N. climate summit
Almost 90 big companies in sectors from food to cement to telecommunications are pledging to slash their greenhouse gas emissions in a…
Germany introduces new climate-rescue package
Angela Merkel and her Social Democrat vice-chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered what is meant to supposed climate-rescue measures aimed at halving Germany's carbon…
U.N. climate footprint larger than Malta’s
More than 1,000 United Nations employees have called for the global body to reduce its carbon footprint, including through curbs on their…
Some of the climate change protests around the world in photos
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are joining demonstrations calling for action to tackle climate change. Here are some of…
Australian students kick off global climate strike
Thousands of school students walked out of their classrooms and onto Australian streets on Friday to kick off a global strike demanding…
EU warns climate change could wipe out crop production in Europe
Crop and livestock production is projected to decrease and may even have to be abandoned in parts of Europe’s southern and Mediterranean…
Activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York
After a 15-day sail that was obsessively tracked by European news media, cheered by fellow climate activists, mocked by critics and rocked…
Iceland unveils memorial plaque for lost glacier
Iceland has been commemorating the country's first glacier lost to climate change, with a memorial plaque warning of the effects of global…
Fighting climate change through food
The UN's scientific body on climate change highlights in a new report the strong connection between land use and climate change. A…
UN chief warns “these extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg. And that iceberg is also rapidly melting.”
Global warming and rising political tensions are dangerous and avoidable, Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters on Thursday, previewing the UN’s upcoming Climate…
BoE’s Carney warns of bankruptcy for firms that ignore climate change
Businesses that fail to adapt to climate change will go bust, warned Bank of England Governor Mark Carney. “Companies that don’t adapt…
Think the heatwave was bad? Climate already hitting key tipping points
As Europe just went through one of the worst heatwaves on record and other parts of the world are suffering adverse effects…