When climate change is discussed, whether at UN climate summits, in company boardrooms or in the media, the focus is often on mitigation (cutting greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero).

Climate change is forcing people to adapt to changing environmental conditions. But what really makes the difference is how they do it. The recently published "Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024" by ...

A report from the Global Commission on Adaptation highlights the role nature can play in helping humans adapt to climate change. But we must help nature adapt, too. There are three key messages from ...

In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other dived underwater a few metres, ...

Indigenous lands from Canada to Ecuador to Nepal are increasingly being hit by catastrophic storms, fires, and floods. Worse, these climate disasters often come one after the other as overlapping ...

With governments around the world falling short on their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the goal of the 2015 Paris agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures is slipping further ...

For the United States to address the global health risks posed by accelerating climate change, it will need to reframe climate adaptation as a pragmatic policy that can bridge partisan divides and ...

Masayasu IrieEditorial Board Member / Secretary General of the Editorial CommitteeProfessor, Osaka UniversityIn recent years, torrential rain disasters, droughts, and changes in the water environment ...

The world is burning – more air conditioning is not the answer to the climate crisis - COMMENT: At an event in New York to mark the release of The Independent’s Climate 100 List, David Miliband warns ...