The new figure is in line with World Health Organisation estimates of 4.2 million deaths each year linked to ground-level air pollution, mostly from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections in children
The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible
Without action by 2030, climate change could push more than 100-million people in developing countries below the poverty line
A world of narrowing options threatens to pit biofuels, forests and food production against each other
Scientists found one or more common antibiotics in two-thirds of 711 samples taken from rivers in 72 countries
Biodiversity loss and global warming are closely linked, according to the 44-page Summary for Policy Makers
Since October, the world has seen a crescendo of grassroots protests around climate change, especially in western Europe and North America
​The Extinction Rebellion is rooted in the conviction that humanity has dug its own grave and has one foot dangling over the edge
The two-week talks are tasked with breathing life into the 2015 Paris Agreement, which vows to cap global warming at ‘well under’ two degrees Celsius