‘Alarming new records’ for climate change set last year, says WMO
Human activities causing ‘planetary scale changes’ to oceans, atmosphere and land
Global warming could briefly exceed 1.5 degrees by 2026 – report
WMO warns of dangers linked to breaching long-term target set by Paris Agreement
Record greenhouse gas concentrations pushing Earth into ‘uncharted territory’ – report
‘Extreme weather events are new norm’, expert warns ahead of Cop26 climate summit
Cop26 has raised hopes, but how can climate cliff edge be avoided?
Ireland has made ambitious pledges, although the rhetoric is failing to meet reality
Biden to reveal US climate intent as he hosts summit of global leaders
World’s biggest carbon emitters, including China and Russia, will be in virtual room
Ireland’s climate: A year of extremes, from wettest February to driest spring
‘2020 is on course to be the 10th consecutive year of above-normal temperatures’
‘The state of the planet is broken’: UN’s stark warning on climate change
Latest reports ‘spell out how close we are to climate catastrophe’, says António Guterres
Highest global temperature in 100 years recorded in California
Preliminary reading of 54.4 degrees taken in Death Valley’s Furnace Creek on Sunday
Antarctic temperature tops 20 degrees for first time on record
Scientists describe 20.75C logged at Seymour Island as ‘incredible and abnormal’
Ireland to join global alliance committed to climate action
Carbon Neutrality Coalition includes countries with most ambitious decarbonisation targets
Scientific report finds more fossil fuels being used every year
Climate action summit to hear global emissions will be at least as high in 2019 as in 2018
Heatwave made ‘five times more likely’ by climate change
Searing recent heat in Europe was 4 degrees higher due to climate change, say scientists
Past four years were the hottest on record, new data shows
World running out of time to combat climate change, meteorological organisation warns
Mary Robinson says climate report ‘heralds the end of the fossil fuel era’
Climate policy expert says report is unequivocal in highlighting that the world is on a very dangerous emissions pathway
Extreme weather displacing twice as many people as conflict - UN
World Meteorological Organization releases provisional ‘status of global climate’ statement
Ozone layer on the mend thirty years after CFCs banned
International treaty in 1897 reduced harmful gasses, hailed as ‘resounding success’
Q&A: Paris climate change conference explained
Goal is to achieve universal agreement on climate change signed by all the nations
2015 likely to be the warmest year ever recorded
New records for strongest tropical storms, warmest ocean temperatures and driest year
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