This Month in Climate Science summarizes significant new research and provides a clearer picture of the threats posed by climate change. Studies published in May 2019 reveal climate change's effects on fertility, a mass puffin die-off in Alaska, and drying lakes in Greenland, among other findings.
Disenfranchised communities feel the effects of climate change first and hardest. They're also oftentimes the most innovative in adapting to these impacts.
This paper focuses on transformative approaches to climate change adaptation in livestock production. It synthesizes the state of adapting key components of livestock systems, key challenges for adaptation, planning questions, and recommendations for transformative adaptation.
Now that the Paris Rulebook is finalized, it's time for work to begin on issues like verification, finance and loss & damage.
Long-term strategies provide a way for countries to envision strong and sustainable growth—exactly the goal of the G20.
The European Council will vote later this month on a proposal to go carbon neutral by 2050. The ramifications of the EU's decision will extend far beyond its borders.
WRI President and CEO Dr. Andrew Steer recently joined the IMF Podcast to explore ways fiscal policies can help countries implement climate strategies. The big takeaway: Done smartly, rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions will actually benefit the economy.
Protest posters and media outlets report that there are just "12 years to save the earth." The reality is that we don't have 12 years; we have just one.
This Month in Climate Science summarizes significant new research on climate change. Studies published in April 2019 show that warming is suppressing economic growth in poorer nations, decreasing Emperor penguin populations and more.
Advances in science and technology mean that we can better measure emissions. A "refinement" to the existing guidelines lays out how countries can better report to the IPCC, giving us a better picture than ever of what we need to do to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
The report identifies a mix of 21 policy levers with which it would be possible to achieve Mexico’s conditional nationally determined contribution (NDC) at an average cost of US$12/ton. The report addresses both current targets, included in Mexico’s unconditional and conditional NDC to the Paris Agreement, as well as a more ambitious long-term target defined by Mexico in the General Climate Change Law in line with a 2°C global warming goal.
With new papers on fossil fuel subsidies and the Paris Agreement on climate change, the IMF is exploring ways it can help address the climate crisis.
Chile’s new High-Level Climate Action Champion Gonzalo Muñoz Abogabir shares COP25 priorities and the Chilean presidency’s plans to leverage the conference to raise global ambitions ahead of 2020.
Adapting to climate change is expensive. Civil society groups can play a key role in ensuring public and private finance are going to the right projects.
The Green New Deal has inspired activism and debate, but not much action on Capitol Hill so far. That hasn't stopped states, cities and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico from taking bold steps now.
This Month in Climate Science summarizes significant new research and provides a clearer picture of the threats posed by climate change. Studies published in March 2019 reveal the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, dolphin-killing heat waves, earlier allergy seasons and more.
Share your "climate story." Meet policymakers where they are. Push government to be bolder. This is your 2019 corporate climate lobbyist checklist.
There are a lot of misconceptions swirling about beef—its environmental impacts, how it's produced and whether or how much to eat. We examined the latest research to separate myth from fact.
A new report from the Indonesian government finds that the country can slash emissions almost 43 percent by 2030 while growing GDP 6 percent per year until 2045. The findings will feed directly into the government's next five-year development plan.
The Paris Agreement told us "what to do": achieve a carbon-neutral and resilient world by mid-century. The guidelines for implementing the Agreement that were adopted at the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24), in Katowice, Poland, detailed "how" we might get there.