Paris Accord

The decade that decides our fate

Article Sipho Kings - 20 Dec 2019

If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale

World “sleepwalking into catastrophe” — WEF

Article Sipho Kings - 22 Jan 2019

World Economic Forum warns that little action is being taken on climate change as the world splinters

COP24 ignores dire climate warnings

Article Yolandi Groenewald - 18 Dec 2018

The climate conference delivered a rulebook but nations failed to pledge to do more to cut emissions

EU to cut new car emissions by 37.5% by 2030

Article Lachlan Carmichael - 18 Dec 2018

The targets will require new cars sold in 2030 to emit 37.5% less carbon dioxide on average compared to 2021 levels

COP24: Nations agree on global climate pact rules after impasse

Article Agency - 16 Dec 2018

Nearly 200 countries overcame divisions, producing 156-page rule book for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement

Money issues bedevil climate talks

Article Yolandi Groenewald - 14 Dec 2018

But SA’s delegation leader Derek Hanekom believes everyone wants to see a deal reached

Sadly, vegans can’t save Earth

Article bogdan TagDiv - 14 Dec 2018

Reducing the carbon footprint of farming will take more than some individual action

Climate talks must be rescued from failure, warns UN chief

Article Marlowe Hood - 12 Dec 2018

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

Editorial: Your earth, take action

Article Editorial - 7 Dec 2018

Change is happening at such a rate that animals, plants and ecosystems cannot evolve fast enough to survive

Bolsonaro spells ecological disaster for Brazil – and the world

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Nov 2018

'To make destroying the environment even easier, Bolsonaro pledged to merge the environment and agriculture ministries'

Global warming outpaces efforts to slow it — UN

Article Marlowe Hood - 28 Nov 2018

New calculations by the UN's top science panel sharply reduce the real-world potential for drawing CO2 out of the air

UN report confronts nations with tough choices on climate

Article Marlowe Hood - 30 Sep 2018

Of hundreds of climate models in 2015 projecting a low-carbon future, only two or three aimed for a 1.5℃ global warming cap

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