The Latest Breaking News from IPCC

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is a sobering read, which some describe as a “final warning” from scientists. The core message remains the same as prior IPCC reports: human-driven climate change is happening, it’s bad, but we can act – though we now have even less time.

The latest report by the UN’s climate advisory panel has once again highlighted the need for urgent action against human-induced climate change, noting that the tools to prevent climate catastrophe already exist. While hopes of limiting global warming at 1.5C are rapidly fading, climate experts stress that “every additional tenth…

Climate change is prompting some lawmakers to propose property tax hikes to fund mitigation efforts while scientists say that global warming could reach a critical level in less than a decade.

A major UN report dubbed a "survival guide for humanity" this week said the Earth would reach 1.5 degrees of warming by the early 2030s unless deep and rapid action is taken to slash emissions across all sectors. RFI spoke with Gerhard Krinner, head of CNRS research at France's Institute…