Legal Risks Seen Accelerating Climate Adaptation Plans August 1, 2025 By Aaron Clark and David Stringer Countries that fall short in efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C face growing legal risks that could push them...
Top UN Court Says Treaties Compel Wealthy Nations to Curb Global Warming July 24, 2025 By Stephanie van den Berg and Alison Withers The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution...
World Court Is Poised to Mark Future Course of Climate Litigation July 23, 2025 By Stephanie van den Berg The United Nations’ highest court will deliver an opinion on Wednesday that is likely to determine the course of future...
Coal Loophole Undermines Bank Pledges to Cut Fossil Fuel Funding June 24, 2025 By Natasha White and Aaron Clark In the parts of the financial world that have spent the decade since the Paris Agreement trying to curb the...
World Must Prepare to Fight Climate Change Without US, UK Says March 7, 2025 By Antony Sguazzin The world needs to prepare to fight global warming without the help of the US as the Trump administration pulls...
EU to Propose New 2040 Climate Target for Emissions by End-March February 13, 2025 The European Commission will propose a new climate target this quarter, to slash Europe’s emissions by 2040, it said on...
It’s ‘Virtually Certain’ the World Has Already Breached 1.5C Warming Limit February 11, 2025 By Kendra Pierre-Louis The world may have already missed its chance to limit global warming to 1.5C, according to two new studies in...
Update: Hottest Year Ever Sees World Breach 1.5C Global Warming Target January 10, 2025 By Eric Roston Earth’s warming exceeded 1.5C on an annual basis for the first time in 2024, according to three major climate science...
Global Temperature Set to Surpass 1.5C Threshold in Hottest Year on Record December 9, 2024 By Olivia Rudgard This year is “effectively certain” to be the warmest on record with temperatures climbing above a closely watched threshold for...
Global Warming Is Already on the Cusp of 1.5C, New Research Finds November 12, 2024 By Eric Roston A newly proposed method for calculating the global temperature suggests that countries may have already failed their main climate goal:...