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Nearly half of the global population – between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people – lives in areas highly vulnerable to climate change. The brief window in which to limit how intense and frequent climate impacts such as stronger storms, droughts, flooding and sea-level rise become and to secure “a liveable…

Paris (AFP) - Climate change has already caused "irreversible losses" for Nature, UN experts have said, warning that if emissions are not cut quickly, warming could trigger chain reactions with potentially catastrophic effects for all species, including humans. 

With this week's U.N. climate science report laying bare the staggering economic costs and losses already faced from climate change, an inevitable question arises: who should pay?

“If you don’t believe in climate change you’re asking for something even more dramatic. Like if you say this is normal, then what do you expect you’ll get when it gets abnormal? You’d better hope this isn’t normal.”

Scientists have long been warning that extreme weather would cause calamity in the future

The Australian government has defended its environmental credentials, arguing that the country had reduced emissions faster than many comparable nations.

If there was ever doubt NZ had gone up a blind climate alley by moving towards large plantings of pine trees, the latest international scientists' report has firmly laid that to rest

Despite the current geopolitical crisis surrounding Russia and Ukraine, we cannot lose sight of the climate emergency, the IPCC report argues.

Coastal cities and settlements are on the climate change frontline. They are our first line of defence, facing some of the highest climate risks. But they are also where transformative climate-resilient development can happen.