In his opening remarks, IPCC Chair Jim Skea urged member governments to initiate a scheduled five-year review of the organization's governing principles and procedures to ensure the body remains fit ...

For too long, the world’s foremost scientific body on global warming has overlooked the contributions of female scientists and the unique impact of climate change on the planet's roughly 3.8 billion ...

Today the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing what may become a pivotal document of human progress—or lack thereof, if we don’t heed its warnings. It’s a “synthesis” report, ...

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing to do so as they ...

The U.S. is skipping the global meeting, raising concerns about delaying a sweeping science assessment on the current state of climate change. The Trump administration’s abrupt retreat from global ...

For those of us anxious about climate change, last week felt like a lot. In addition to witnessing the ongoing present-day fallout of climate change worldwide through floods and fires, we got some ...

The dam wall of the Steinbach reservoir in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, following floods in mid-July, 2021. The dam wall of the Steinbach reservoir in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, following ...

Ralph Sims has received travel funding from NZ Government to support his previous role as an IPCC author. Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of ...

The last chapter in a trio of reports from the UN's top climate scientists has landed, accompanied by a stark warning from the authors that it is now a case of "now or never" to avoid the worst ...

Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the latest report in its sixth assessment cycle, “Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis.” Much of the material in the ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advises the world’s governments on climate change science, impacts and response strategies, and recently released their latest report on climate ...