Climate-change adaptation encompasses a broad range of human policies and activities primarily intended to reduce the risks posed by climate change. It includes both realised and expected risks.

Yet, as the push for renewables gains momentum—fueled by falling costs and the urgent need to phase out oil, gas, and coal—experts are warning that climate change, largely caused by decades of fossil ...

BERLIN, March 25 (Reuters) - Accelerated climate action could boost global GDP by 0.2% by 2040 compared with current policies, a study showed on Tuesday, as delegates from 40 countries meet in ...

UN Climate Change News, 24 March 2025 – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force on 21 March 1994, marking the beginning of global commitment to tackling ...

Around the globe, rising temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier precipitation that wreak havoc on people and the environment. Rainfall can ...

The latest assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s top authority on global warming, defines future warming in terms of 20-year averages relative to the average ...

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A new report from the World Meteorological Organization delivers a stark warning: climate change is accelerating, with some impacts now irreversible for centuries. The State of the Global Climate ...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Greenland to see first-hand the impacts of climate change. One of the sites he visited was Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, ...

The effects of human-driven climate change surged to alarming levels in 2024, with some consequences likely to be irreversible for centuries - if not millennia – according to a new report from the ...

Protecting and conserving our natural heritage, predicting weather and environmental conditions, preventing and managing pollution, promoting clean growth and a sustainable environment for present and ...

Climate change and its impacts imperil every living being, industry and ecosystem. Current actions and plans to address the crisis are insufficient. The climate crisis is one of the most pervasive and ...