The authors of a new report say the blazes have sparked significant shifts in tree cover and carbon storage
UN Secretary General António Guterres says digital technologies help to ‘deepen distrust and fuel polarisation’
Subsidies and tax breaks were provided for deforestation work, water pollution and fossil fuel consumption, an Earth Track report said
July was China’s hottest in modern history, and the hot spell shows no sign of relenting in the east and south of the country
Extreme weather across large parts of the country has triggered a number of deadly natural disasters this year
Global methane emissions are rising at their fastest rate in decades, scientists have warned in a new study
Scientists blame human-influenced climate change for the rise in temperatures which has seen a warmer-than-usual Antarctic winter
New coal power was brought online in China – and Indonesia, India, Vietnam and Japan – while there was a slowdown in closures in Europe and the US
Big cities are the places making a real impact on cutting emissions, the head of a global cities network says in the lead-up to the climate summit in UAE, which mayors will join for the first time
Petrostates and oil, gas and coal companies still intend to keep on making trillions of dollars a year by increasing production
Beijing’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will tell the COP28 climate meeting new energy sources aren’t reliable enough yet to replace coal and oil
A failure to deal with carbon emissions could force debt-servicing costs higher – and spark credit downgrades – for some of the world’s leading nations