Risk

More than three quarters of business leaders claim their sustainability data is insufficient and is yet to be properly harnessed to tackle escalating climate risks

New guide from ISEP and Aldersgate Group urges business leaders to consider the decline of the natural environment as a material financial risk

Finance ministries and investors that address climate and air quality as separate issues are leaving 'trillions on the table', UNEP and CCAC study warns

Land and ocean carbon sinks are under pressure, but carbon pricing mechanisms are struggling to protect them, Wood Mackenzie warns

New report argues heat risks and the policies and investments required to combat them are now well understood, but ‘delivery is absent’

Sewage pumped into England's bathing waters for more than 2,000 hours over the summer, Surfers Against Sewage finds

Politicians, business leaders, economists, and climate campaigners offer their take on UNEP's report warning the world is now all but certain to 'overshoot' the 1.5C global warming threshold

UNEP sets out 'best-case' scenario of 1.8C for global average temperature rise, but maintains world can still limit, adapt to, and eventually reduce warming to or below 1.5C threshold in future

Increase in severity of storms, floods, wildfires and more - as well as rising property values and insurance costs - spurs surge in modelled losses from natural catastrophes in a given year, according to Verisk

Campaign group delivers open letter signed by almost 30,000 people to Prime Minister Andy Burnham