2015 breaks weather records
Provisional figures indicate that last year was the warmest since records started in 1850, according to scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit.
The organisations, which used the HadCRUT4 dataset, revealed that, compared with the pre-industrial period, the 2015 average global temperature was around 1ºC above the long-term average from 1850 toContinue reading this with an IEMA membership
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Consultation launched on legally-binding environmental targets
The UK government has today launched an eight-week consultation on its plans for legally-binding environmental targets.
The EU has unveiled plans to end its reliance on fossil fuel imports from Russia by 2030 following the county's invasion of Ukraine.
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels could require investment of $15trn (£11.4trn) in carbon dioxide removals (CDRs) over the next three decades.
IEMA CEO, Sarah Mukherjee MBE, has described today's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a "stark reminder" of the significant threat that climate change poses to civilisation as we know it.
Two-thirds of small business owners in the UK are worried that they don’t have the right skills and knowledge to tackle the climate crisis, a recent survey has found.
A new framework has been launched by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) to help investors assess corporate climate targets in 10 key high-emitting sectors across energy, transport and industrials.
Climate pledges from 25 of the world’s largest companies will deliver less than half of the emissions reductions needed to achieve their net-zero goals, new analysis suggests.
Aled Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute, talks to Chris Seekings about how the impacts of climate change could unravel civilisation as we know it, and how we can build resilience
The world’s obsession with GDP as a measurement of economic success could present one of the biggest barriers to achieving climate and environmental goals. Chris Seekings reports
