Spencer Tierney: But what climate scientists and the U.N.'s Climate Change panel actually say as of March 2023 is that reaching 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels isn't an all or nothing doomsday clock. It's more a benchmark for when we'll have to adapt to more...
The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect...
The state of the economy and household finances are a greater concern to people across the globe than climate change, according to the annual Life at Home Report released by IKEA today. Surveying over 37,000 people globally in 37 countries, the report rev...
Wednesday's study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), which is backed by the German government, stands out for the severity of its findings. It calculates climate change will shave 17% off the globa...
A report by the World Economic Forum says climate change is the global economy’s biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems...
Last year, the UK became the first G7 country to set in law a target of net-zero emissions by 2050. The law requires the government to set a new carbon budget towards that goal every five years, following the advice of the Climate Change Committee (CCC). ...
1, McKinsey, December 1, 2023. Despite such initiatives, however, several obstacles are preventing green technologies from gaining traction, most notably: the high material, energy, and production costs associated with the climate tech products that mitigate or reverse the effects of ...
Nature Climate Change volume 13, pages 532–536 (2023)Cite this article 6939 Accesses 46 Citations 292 Altmetric Metrics details Abstract Estimates of the social cost of carbon are the yardstick for climate policy targets. However, there is great uncertainty and we do not know how estimates ...
In 2023 the impact of climate change needs to be considered at multiple levels, beyond the immediate effects of extreme weather events. It is foreseeable that health risks associated with climate change may increase. Experts advise that climate change is contributing to an acceleration in emergence ...
California’s 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan: The Strategy for Achieving California’s 2030 Greenhouse Gas Target. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/ab-32-climate-change-scoping-plan (2017). EPA. Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Final Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards ...