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  Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. The Working Group I contribution assesses the latest physical science basis of climate change, including observed and projected large-scale climate changes, climate processes and feedbacks, and regional climate information. Refer to the outline of the report 👉 https://bit.ly/3Rvkd4u to see whether your expertise can contribute. The expert review is the first of multiple review stages and runs from 10 August to 2 October 2026. Interested experts are invited to register by 23:50 CEST on 25 September 2026: 👉 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq Read the full press release here 👉 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod Read the mini guide for Expert Reviewers here 👉 https://bit.ly/WGIERGu

Article written by Ayesha Tandon for Carbon Brief, republished with the author’s permission.  Ayesha Tandon ,  is Science Correspondent for Climate Brief.  Ayesha holds an MSci in Natural Sciences, specializing in Climate Science, from the University of Exeter. She previously worked at the UK Met Office as a Climate Science Communicator. This was  first published in Carbon Brief here.  A resident walks through inundated streets in Nong Khai city, Thailand.  Credit: Adryel Talamantes / Alamy Stock Photo Limiting warming to 2C above pre-industrial temperatures may not be enough to prevent "extreme global climate outcomes," according to research published in Nature   The authors simulate climate extremes – such as drought in breadbasket regions and flooding in populated areas – under a 2C warming scenario using a range of different global climate models. They find that the “worst-case” model projections in a 2C warmer world are often more severe than t...

Guest blog: Janos Pasztor the Former Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G), Former UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change On the 7 th of December the United States government announced through a presidential memorandum from the White House that it would withdraw from over 60 international organizations, including many UN entities, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Below are my reflections on the impact of this decision. In particular: The United States’ withdrawal from the IPCC and the UNFCCC signals a deliberate abandonment of international climate science, cooperation, and responsibility for its historical emissions, while actively promoting fossil fuels at home—thereby increasing global emissions and the risk of irreversible climate tipping points. This move undermines global climate ambition, shifts unfair burdens onto...

INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 -- There are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today (March 20th). “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,” said IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. “This Synthesis Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable sustainable future for all.” In 2018, IPCC highlighted the unprecedented scale of the challenge required to keep warming to 1.5°C. Five years later, that challenge has become even greater due to a continued increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The pace and scale of what has been done so far, and current plans, are insufficient to tackle climate change. More ...

Guest blog by Janos Paszor is Executive Director, Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G) at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change. Originally published in C2G On January 17, more than 60 scientists and scholars launched a global initiative calling for a “ non-use agreement on solar geoengineering ”. This has prompted a vigorous debate within the academic community focused on these issues, and could have an impact on the evolution of a wider discussion in policy circles as well. It is not C2G’s place to take a position on the initiative’s merits per se, but we do believe it underscores the challenge C2G was created to address: that potential climate-altering techniques are being considered increasingly seriously, and that this requires  governance . Governance is more than just creating rules: it involves a wide array of actors coming together to explore the challenges in many fora. By that measu...