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Current policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase adaptation and mitigation funding are insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. It is clear that further action is needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and achieve a just climate future. Here, we offer a new perspective on emissions responsibility and climate finance by conducting an environmentally extended input output analysis that links 30 years (1990–2019) of United States (U.S.) household-level income data to the emissions generated in creating that income. To do this we draw on ...

It is still possible to limit average global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius (2˚C) and avoid catastrophic climate change, but the remaining global carbon budget—the amount of carbon that can be safely released into the atmosphere if this limit is to be met—is rapidly diminishing.This was the verdict of the world’s top scientists who gathered in Paris last week to urge

'Solar geoengineering deployment cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive, and effective manner,' their open letter reads.

As the COP26 climate summit gets under way in Glasgow amid apocalyptic projections if drastic changes are not made, some sceptics still insist that climate change is "natural" or that there is "no sc…