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IPCC reports are a climate science beacon. So why do these scientists say they have to stop?

Fed up with what they saw as inaction by policymakers, three climate change scientists called on their colleagues to withdraw from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting process.

ABC News · Sep 3, 2022

Cheaper, Changing and Crucial: The Rise of Solar Power

Generating power from sunlight bouncing off the ground, working at night, even helping to grow strawberries: solar panel technology is evolving fast as costs plummet for a key segment of the world's energy transition. The International Energy Agency says solar will have to scale up significantly this decade to meet…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 11, 2022

Green hydrogen revolution on way

Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread environmental disruption and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world faces unavoidable climate hazards over the next two decades. But, with average annual global greenhouse-gas emissions reaching their highest…

Bangkok Post · Jul 5, 2022

Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together

Australia has no clear strategy to decarbonise transport. That’s a problem, because without a plan, our take-up of clean technologies like electric cars, trucks and buses is slow. It’s stopping us from meeting our climate commitments. And it leaves us paying exorbitant prices for imported oil at the fuel pump,…

The Conversation · May 10, 2022

The need for locally-led climate actions

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describes how climate change is already causing widespread disruption, affecting natural and human systems across the globe. The effects of global temperature warming up above 1.5°C through intensified extreme weather events are unavoidable and irreversible. A strong message of…

Bangkok Post · May 8, 2022

Stories about economic degrowth help fight climate change — and yield a host of other benefits

There is something unprecedented and important in the recent Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): degrowth. Two of the IPCC’s working groups — those focused on climate change impacts and on mitigation — use the economic term to discuss policies that are key to reducing…

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2022

Scrap hidden carbon subsidies

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should terrify policymakers and ordinary people around the world. The IPCC warns that some disastrous climate outcomes are now likely to occur not in the distant future, but within the next 15 years, or even the next decade.

Bangkok Post · Apr 18, 2022

Floods in South Africa: protecting people must include a focus on women and girls

Climate change is one of the main factors contributing to recurring floods experienced in many parts of the world over the past years. In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities contributed approximately 1.1℃ of global warming between 1850 and 1900.…

The Conversation · Apr 14, 2022

Electrifying homes to slow climate change: 4 essential reads

The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that to avoid massive losses and damage from global warming, nations must act quickly to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The good news is that experts believe it’s possible to cut global greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030…

The Conversation · Apr 11, 2022

4 transportation tweaks that would finally slow climate change, according to the IPCC

We are already in the midst of these changes. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report which urges large-scale changes to transport.

Inverse · Apr 9, 2022