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 ...
As climate adaptation shifts from long-term planning to immediate survival, Caribbean communities are facing escalating risks ...
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, ...
Despite all of our attempts, like trying to make coal clean, our emissions are still increasing. Kemper Clean Coal Plant (shown here) was eventually turned into a normal combined cycle natural gas ...
The IPCC’s official rulebook, last updated in 2013, highlights the IPCC’s role in producing comprehensive assessments of the state of human-caused climate change. It stipulates that its assessments ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. The IPCC is an international body that periodically ...
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Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse ...
The reports produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are massive undertakings, requiring years of effort and hundreds of scientists who volunteer as authors. The sixth ...
The latest IPCC session was clouded by differences over when its flagship reports should be published and concern over cost-cutting proposals ...