Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Leaders urge rapid climate action at COP31 as record heat, global crises threaten progress

A report by the United Nations Environment Program published in October said the world was already set to overshoot 1.5C of warming above pre-industrial times, the threshold set in 2015.

Turkish and United Nations flags flutter at the entrance to the Antalya Expo Center on November 8, 2026, ahead of the opening of the UN climate conference. Turkey will host the COP31 climate talks from November 9 to 20 in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya.
 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends the Fridays for Future protest outside the Parliament in Stockholm on December 15, 2023

Greta Thunberg slams COP28 climate deal and Israel, waves Palestinian flag

 The calm surface of the ocean on a clear day.

The Atlantic ocean current may collapse this century, scientists warn

 Israeli Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman is seen at the handover ceremony replacing outgoing minister Tamar Zandberg, in Jerusalem, on January 2, 2023.

Israel is not prepared for climate change, Silman says following UN report


A man-made climate disaster is close, UN environmental report warns

Hoesung Lee: “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits.”

Climate change is believed by scientists to affect millions of people

At least 23 dead as dozens of wildfires torch forests in Chile

Fires continue to ravish central Chile as local temperatures continue to rise.

 A wildfire burns areas in Santa Juana, near Concepcion, Chile

Intensifying windthrow on the horizon as climate change fuels storms

Climate change exacerbates tropical storms. As a result of the more extreme winds associated with these events, more trees are uprooted. 

 An aerial view shows trees as the sun rises at the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil October 26, 2022.

A cheap and easy way to refreeze the poles - study

Earth’s poles are warming. There has been a record number of heatwaves reported this year in the Arctic and Antarctic, and with glaciers collapsing and ice melting, the global sea level will rise. 

 Splinters of ice peel off from one of the sides of the Perito Moreno glacier near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, southern Argentina, on July 7, 2008.

Israeli activists demand action against animal agriculture at climate conference

"The science presented by the IPCC is irrefutable, a vegan diet is an optimal diet for the planet," said Yael Hanna Gabay, the founder of the Freedom4Animals organization.

Israeli animal rights activist Yael Gabay at the Bonn Climate Change Conference

‘Doomism’ vs hope: A Jewish voice on climate change - opinion

"There is still time; our future remains to be written. But, it’s going to take everything we have and we need to start now,” Sanjayan said.

 RABBAI JONATHAN SACKS 'Judaism is the systematic rejection of tragedy in the name of hope.'

South African leader visits flood victims as death toll rises to 259

The heavy rains on Tuesday also displaced dozens, swept away roads and disrupted shipping in one of Africa's busiest ports.

Men sift through the rubble of a church which collapsed onto a house killing four children in Clermont, Durban, South Africa, April 13, 2022.

Climate action: Extreme steps needed to avert disaster - IPCC

Radical emission cuts combined with some atmospheric carbon removal are the only hope to limit global warming to 1.5°, scientists warn.

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