In this factcheck, Carbon Brief looks at Trump’s comments, the debate around RCP8.5 and the “good” and “bad” news within the latest scenarios.

Climate scientists discarded an extreme global warming model frequently cited by news outlets in April after its predictions ...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has admitted that its worst-case carbon emissions scenario, RCP 8.5, is implausible and has been scrapped. This scenario served as the foundation ...

According to the latest IPCC report, to meet the goal of capping temperature rise at 1.5°C, emissions will need to be cut by nearly half by 2030. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash) The average global surface ...

A U.N. panel on climate change seems poised to retire RCP 8.5, a scenario in which the world does nothing to curb ...

Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse ...

National governments haven’t done nearly enough to stop global warming in the seven years since they signed the Paris Climate Agreement, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. The IPCC is an international body that periodically ...

Humanity still has time to arrest catastrophic global warming – and has the tools to do so quickly and cheaply, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has found. The latest IPCC ...

IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is a group of scientists charged by the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme to assess global climate change. Its mission is to ...

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing to do so as they ...