A new report grapples with the complex challenges of climate risk assessment, and urges governments to adopt a cross-disciplinary, holistic approach at the highest political level
Assessing climate risk is urgent but uniquely challenging: it demands an understanding of the complex interactions of global weather systems and the response of natural ecosystems, an assessment of the likely effects of current…Read more
Wrangling over the costs of dealing with climate change remains a sore point at climate talks, but the private sector is more awake to low-carbon energy
As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change released a weighty draft in Lima of what might evolve into a climate deal in Paris at the end of 2015, clear faultlines persist among the 192 participating countries. Much of this divide stems from continuing disagreements about…Read more
Governments and businesses have promised to go green, and to pay for it. But will Ban Ki-moon’s one-day climate summit succeed in galvanising world leaders to action?
More than 125 political leaders gathered at the United Nations in New York to pledge support for climate action, in a day that alternated between hope and fear: fear of the consequences of climate change that all agreed is now well under way; hope…Read more
As New York Climate Week gets underway, global business leaders insist that going low carbon is good for business
If New York Climate Week is a reliable measure, attitudes to climate change are shifting rapidly. One day after 310,000 people marched through New York to call on governments to act, and on the eve of the UN Secretary General’s one-day climate summit, a number of high profile global CEOs…Read more
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