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The world is heading for a nearly 3°C temperature rise above pre-industrial levels under current climate pledges, the latest United Nations report has warned.
CLIMATE CHANGE

Humanity is breaking all the wrong records on climate change, says UN Environment Programme

The Emissions Gap report says nations must go further than current pledges under the Paris Agreement or face 2.5°C to 2.9°C of warming

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Blazing: A wildfire that broke out in a woodland spread further in the Kinik district of Izmir, Türkiye, on 26 July. The Mediterranean area has been hit by heatwaves that fuel runaway fires. Photo: Mehmet Emin Menguarslan/Getty Images
CARBON EMISSIONS

Heatwaves, ocean crisis: Climate change is here

If you still think climate change is a problem for the future, you had better think again

  • Ozayr Patel
4 min read
n 2020, temperatures globally were an average of 1.25 degrees Celsius higher than in pre-industrial times (Julian Stratenschulte/picture alliance via Getty Images)
BOB SCHOLES

A grim future of extreme weather

Unpredictable and unbearable heat waves, floods and rain set to wreak havoc in Africa

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
A man wipes perspiration from his head in Tokyo on July 24, 2018, as Japan suffers from a heatwave. – An “unprecedented” heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said on July 24, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a “natural disaster.” (Martin BUREAU / AFP)
ATTRIBUTION SCIENCE

The first undeniable climate change deaths

In Japan, in 2018, more than 1 000 people died during an unprecedented heat wave. In 2019, scientists proved it would have been impossible without global warming

  • Daniel Merino
21 min read