Press releases

The emissions of just five economies, China, the US, the EU, India and Russia, over the period 1991-2030 will double the number of countries experiencing extreme hot years every second year by 2030.

Gas has no place in a 1.5˚C world, and its use should already have peaked, but instead the expansion of the industry continues to rise, according to a new report by Climate Analytics.

A new paper, published today in Nature Climate Change, documents unprecedented scientific evidence for human-induced climate impacts over at least 80% of the world's land area affecting at least 85% of the global population.

Governments can virtually halve exposure to potentially lethal temperatures for hundreds of millions of people in South Asia if global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are successful, according to a new first-of-its-kind study, published today in Geophysical Research Letters.

Risks of deadly heat stroke to millions of Hajj and Umrah pilgrims during summer could be halved if global warming is limited to 1.5°C as stipulated in the Paris climate accord compared with 2°C, according to a new study published today in journal Environmental Research Letters.

Australia is chalking up all the wrong kind of records when its climate policies and performance are compared with other G20 nations, says a new report. Australia has one of the G20’s highest shares of fossil fuels in its energy mix, its emissions per capita are three times the G20 average, it ranks highly in terms of vulnerability to climate risk, and faces heavy losses from those climate impacts.