The Latest Breaking News from IPCC

To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy.

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

A new report lists 10 policies to constrain polluting infrastructure and achieve key climate goals

The world still has “multiple, feasible and effective options” to avoid the worst consequences of climate breakdown, according to a landmark new report. 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) synthesis report recently landed with an authoritative thump, giving voice to hundreds of scientists endeavouring to understand the unfolding calamity of global heating. What’s changed since the last one in 2014? Well, we’ve dumped an additional third of a trillion tonnes of CO₂…

The Intergovernmental Panic on Climate Change (IPCC) has released yet another disastrous 'final warning' report.

Pie-in-the-sky fantasies of carbon capture and geoengineering are a way for decision-makers to delay taking real action

These weather disasters provide a glimpse of lies ahead for planet Earth if humankind fails to stop climate change progress.

Scientists have a clear message: act now, before it's too late

Humanity is at a “climate crossroads”, said Damian Carrington in The Guardian. “What we do in the next few years will determine our fate for millennia.” 

The new U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes very clear what we stand to lose in the next decade without a significant course correction: a chance at a “livable and sustainable future for all.” Our home, the Earth, is on fire and we need to act.