Paris Agreement

With a continuing hot streak felt across the Earth, 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record. And September was no exception; in fact, it broke existing records by a large margin, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

We're set to swelter like never before, as a perfect storm of natural and manmade conditions unite to deliver a 98% chance of the hottest 12 months on record within the next five years, according to a damning new report from the WMO.

​A newly published special report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that humanity must make rapid and unprecedented changes to all facets of society if it is to limit global warming to 1.5°C, and so mitigate the potentially devastating effects of global warming.

An international team of scientists has proposed a series of deadlines by which humanity must take serious action to combat climate change if it is to meet the ambitious goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and stave off potential disaster.

To reduce the severity of climate change, it’s not enough to just curb the rise in emissions –technologies that actively pull more CO2 out of the atmosphere will also be vital. To that end, a new CO2-filtering plant has just opened up near Zurich.

Wondering just what impact a US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement would have on climate change, as part of our "One Big Question" column, we turned to Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, to see what he thought. Here's what he had to say.