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Carbon emission limits needed to contain global warming could be breached within six years in the Yorkshire and Humber region, a new report warns. The Yorkshire and Humber Climate Action Plan calls for meaningful climate leadership from larger institutions in government and the public and private sectors to deliver “significant, tangible contributions” to help tackle...
A global network of 126 researchers have produced the most systematic and comprehensive assessment of implemented human adaptation to climate change to date. Their study, published in Nature Climate Change, found that adaptation, as documented in the scientific literature, is mostly fragmented and incremental, undertaken primarily by individuals and households, rather than comprehensive and coherent efforts...
A climate change film made by a group of over 40 young people from the UK and South Africa during the pandemic is being shown at COP26 today, Monday 8 November. The Ripple Effect, which was supported by a team from the University of Leeds, showcases the lived experiences of the young people and how...
A new report from an international consortium shows how the chances of global temperature rise staying within 1.5°C this century could range from around 75% to less than 30%, depending on how the climate system responds. Published at the United Nations climate summit, COP26, the report highlights that warming could still be substantially higher –...
Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and more intense over the past 40 years according to new research, raising sea levels and flood risk worldwide. Over the past decade alone, 3.5 trillion tonnes of ice has melted from the surface of the island and flowed downhill into...