Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social media, including by US President Donald Trump. These updates do not discredit ...

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 ...

Scientists say the ‘worst‑case’ emissions pathway is now implausible. Here’s what that means for insurers and regulators.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...