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The Tony Blair Institute’s call to reverse the UK’s ban on new North Sea exploration licences raises questions about whether its recommendations are grounded in scientific evidence or influenced by its close relationships with fossil… Read More »Following the money: Is the Blair Institute’s North Sea oil and gas pivot good for Britain?
Global climate data for 2025 paint a stark picture of a world now firmly in a new thermal regime. The Copernicus Climate Change Service finds that 2025 was the third warmest year on record, extending… Read More »Beyond the Threshold: Overshoot, Irreversibility and the Vanishing 1.5ºC Window
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year globally, marking the first time the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. C3S, implemented by the European Centre for… Read More »2024 Marks a Critical Climate Threshold, Surpassing 1.5°C Above Pre-Industrial Levels
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Geoscience on January 3, 2025, has uncovered a significant and previously overlooked source of greenhouse gas emissions in the Arctic. Led by Nancy L. Freitas and her team, the… Read More »Groundbreaking Study Reveals Thawing Permafrost Beneath Arctic Lakes Accelerating Climate Change
Soil scientist, H Henry Janzen has published a research paper rethinking how we talk about carbon in the ground. Instead of “sequestration,” which implies locking carbon away permanently, they’re proposing a shift to “stewardship” –… Read More »Nurturing Nature’s Carbon Cycle: The Case for Soil Carbon Stewardship
Just two weeks after the COP29 UN Climate Summit concluded with a global call for unity and accountability, Azerbaijan has come under intense scrutiny for escalating its crackdown on civil society and media. The United… Read More »Just weeks after COP29, Azerbaijan’s Crackdown on Civil Society Sparks Global Condemnation
Activists including Greta Thunberg have been arrested protesting in Brussels against the EU subsidies that are supporting the fossil fuel industry. With so much global destruction now underway as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions,… Read More »“Our politicians have failed us.”
European Civil Society Urges Immediate End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Open Letter to EU Leaders A coalition of more than 30 major climate and social justice organisations under the United for Climate Justice (UCJ)… Read More »October 5th: The People of Europe rise against fossil subsidies in Brussels
The summer of 2024 brought some of the most extreme weather conditions Europe has ever seen, with record-breaking temperatures and highly uneven rainfall patterns depending on location. According to a preliminary analysis by the Copernicus… Read More »Record-breaking Heat Stress in Southeastern Europe During the Summer of 2024
As digital technologies rapidly advance and global demand for data and hardware surges, the carbon footprint of the tech sector is growing. This was revealed in a report co-authored by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)… Read More »New Report: Tech Industry’s Carbon Footprint escalating as climate impacts destroy lives
Imagine you could give Earth a physical, complete with diagnostic tools, lab results, and a concerned doctor ready to offer advice. Well, the newly launched *Planetary Health Check* (PHC) is basically that – but for… Read More »The First Planetary Health Check Report Issues Red Alert – Highlights interconnectedness
The Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented scale, devastating biodiversity, Indigenous lands, and accelerating the global climate crisis. In Brazil alone, fires have already consumed 5.4 million hectares, with record-breaking blazes in Bolivia and… Read More »Amazon Fires: A Biodiversity and Climate Emergency
Portugal is experiencing a brutal wildfire season, with blazes in the north of the country breaking records for carbon emissions this September. According to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), these fires have already released… Read More »Portugal’s Wildfires Set New Record for Carbon Emissions, Smoke Set to Spread Across Europe
The fate of our future coastlines might be determined by the actions we take today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A new study, including contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), sheds… Read More »Future Sea-Level Rise Hangs on Emission Cuts Today, Study Shows
Below is a summary of the key-data from Copernicus released today showing the unprecedented global heating with additional data for Europe. The warming signals are unprecedented and should be at the front of policymakers decision… Read More »Summer 2024 – Hottest on record globally and for Europe
An international research team has unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across six continents. Published in the prestigious journal Science, this unprecedented study provides a detailed impact… Read More »Evaluating Climate Policy Measures Over Two Decades
For the first time, an international team of scientists is able to provide a detailed outline of planetary resilience by mapping out all nine boundary processes that define a safe operating space for humanity. From… Read More »Cutting edge research shows 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries crossed – the shift to unsafe operating space for humanity
Antarctica’s vast ice masses seem far away, yet they store enough water to raise global sea levels by several meters. A team of experts from European research institutes has now provided the first systematic stability inspection of… Read More »Stability inspection for West Antarctica shows: marine ice sheet is possibly on a path to tipping
