Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs for essential climate adaptation, this report says.

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Twelve consecutive months have met or exceeded the 1.5°C threshold. The past year also recorded the highest global average temperatures ever, with significant heatwaves in Europe and other regions.

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Abrupt shifts within complex systems such as the Earth’s climate system are extremely hard to predict. Scientists of two German research insitutes have now succeeded in developing a new method to anticipate such tipping…

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In the quest to combat climate change, we often overlook some of the most powerful natural allies available: peatlands. These unique ecosystems, found across nearly every country world-wide, have been under the spotlight…

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Whereas attendance is growing with each new international climate event, this has hardly contributed to more being done to combat climate change. Our author argues that instead of spending millions on raising false…

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Camelids are vital to indigenous communities in over 90 countries. Their value and potential have been underestimated and lack adequate support and investment. The Andes Resilientes al Cambio Climático project,…

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Merely modest steps forward have been taken at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, according to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell. Non-governmental organisations criticise that the conference outcome is…

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One in eight people world-wide reside in mountainous areas. These regions supply fresh water to half the global population. They are home to numerous plant and animal species found nowhere else. However, these delicate…

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Starting today, the June UN Climate Meetings will take place over the next ten days in Bonn, Germany. Our author calls for the underlying process to be reformed.

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Rising temperatures could drive food inflation up by 3.2 percentage points and overall inflation by 1.18 percentage points annually by 2035, according to a new study by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)…

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