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Climate change
- Deforestation and climate changeDeforestation and climate change are locked in a feedback loop that scientists describe as self-amplifying. Every year, 75,700 square kilometers of forest…
- Global Carbon ProjectThe Global Carbon Project exists to answer one of the most consequential questions of our time: exactly how much carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide…
- Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon MarketsThe United Nations Climate Conference 2025 COP30 in Belém, Brazil became the birthplace of a new global alliance. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stood…
- Climate changeIn 2024, Earth recorded its warmest year since regular tracking began in 1850, sitting at +1.60 C-change above the pre-industrial baseline.
- Greenhouse gas emissionsGreenhouse gas emissions from human activities have now pushed atmospheric carbon dioxide to nearly 50% above pre-industrial levels.
- Abrupt climate changeAbrupt climate change is not a gradual drift. It is the climate system lurching into a new state faster than the forces driving it.
- Climate change adaptationClimate change adaptation is the work of surviving a world that is already shifting. As of 2022, global average temperatures sit 1.2 degrees Celsius above…
- Economic analysis of climate changeEconomic analysis of climate change asks a question that sounds simple but turns out to be extraordinarily difficult: what does warming actually cost us, and…
- Global surface temperatureThe blue line on a graph represents global surface temperature reconstructed over the last 2,000 years using proxy data from tree rings, corals, and ice…
- Assisted migrationThe phrase assisted migration describes the intentional establishment of populations or meta-populations beyond a species' historic range.
- Ocean heat contentOcean heat content is a measure of the energy absorbed and stored by the world's oceans, and what it has been revealing over recent decades is striking.
- Climate change litigationIn 2019, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands confirmed that the government must cut carbon dioxide emissions. This ruling relied on one specific legal…
- Climate emergency declarationThe first government to declare a climate emergency was the City of Darebin in Melbourne, Australia. This local council made the decision on the 5th of…