Paris Agreement

UNFCCC estimates current climate pledges will deliver only marginal reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade, underscoring the urgent need for a breakthrough at next month's COP31 Summit

Annual UNEP Emissions Gap report warns urgent action is needed to limit the 'overshoot' beyond the 1.5C warming threshold set under the Paris Agreement

Triggering positive 'tipping points' can transform industries and systems that have driven a shocking decline in wildlife populations, study claims

DNV forecasts energy-related emissions will fall sharply by mid-century, but a two-paced clean energy transition means global economy remains on track for well over 2C of warming

Countries embrace clean energy but resist cutting fossil fuel production - that fault line is now shaping the UN's first transition roadmap, due at COP31 in November

Antonio Guterres reiterates call for all countries to develop national roadmaps for phasing out coal, oil, and gas, as he launched a series of new climate initiatives at UN event in New York

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

New strategy explores how to deliver emissions reductions across potash and phosphate in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement

Oxfam claims significant chunk of $137bn in climate finance provided by rich nations in 2024 came in the form of loans that only add to the Global South's debt burden