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The Earth’s temperature briefly rose above a crucial threshold that scientists have been warning for decades could have catastrophic and irreversible

This briefing presents priorities for the least developed countries (LDCs) for COP28 at a critical time.

New research shows way more oil and gas industry representatives have attended the climate summit than previously reported.

Chances are rapidly disappearing to limit Earth’s temperature rise to the globally agreed mark, but researchers say there are some positive signs of progress.

The Gulf countries are marching ahead with an ambitious domestic transition to renewable energy. But there is little chance they will stop exporting fossil fuels any time soon.

The Blue Carbon Accounting Model (BlueCAM) is a tool for tidal restoration projects established under the Tidal Restoration for Blue Carbon method (2022) of the Australian voluntary carbon market. The commentary of Gallagher discussed that BlueCAM did not subtract allochthonous carbon, which is carbon in wetland soils from external sources, either terrestrial or marine sources, from estimated net abatement. This approach was used because all organic carbon preserved in a restored wetland soil, i...

At the end of this month, world leaders will converge in Dubai for this year’s U.N. climate talks, COP 28. “COP” stands for “conference of parties”—meaning countries who are signatories to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Delegates from those countries are ostensibly the only people allowed to actually make decisions there. But as new research shows, that isn’t really how it works.Since COP9, held in 2003, the UNFCCC has granted 94...

Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement have already taken substantial actions. Yet there is an urgent need to set more ambitious targets.

Partners of the Ocean Pavilion at COP28 and associated stakeholders are calling on world leaders to recognize the importance of the ocean in climate and support efforts to expand and improve ocean observations worldwide, including expanding coverage in under-observed regions via the just announced COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration.

London, UK (SPX) Nov 21, 2023 - Faster warming in the Arctic will be responsible for a global 2C temperature rise being reached eight years earlier than if the region was warming at the average global rate, according to a new mode