Tag: IPCC
As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis....
Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a "final warning" to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world...
Some Pacific nations ‘won’t survive’ if NZ and world drop the...
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
There is "is much to win by trying" to take action on climate change -- that is a...
IPCC report: world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to climate realities
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury
This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people...
Climate change: IPCC scientist warns world ‘pretty much out of time’
RNZ News
Deeper and and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit the worst effects of global warming, a climate scientist...
Pacific Climate Warrior on what the latest IPCC report means for...
RNZ Pacific
The United Nations chief scientific agency on climate change released its latest report on Monday.
The IPCC Working Group II report on climate impacts,...
Covid will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face...
ANALYSIS: By Nathan Cooper, University of Waikato
As the New Zealand government prepares to deal with a looming omicron outbreak, this will not be the...
Covid pandemic blows world off course over climate crisis, says Bainimarama
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Nearly two years since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, its global socioeconomic “headwinds” have blown many countries far off...
Narrow window to halt climate change catastrophe, says Pacific Forum...
RNZ Pacific
The world is on the brink of a climate catastrophe, with just a narrow window for action to reverse global processes predicted to...
There’s no time left for empty climate promises, says Pacific activist
By Dominic Godfrey, RNZ Pacific Journalist
The Pacific's coral reef systems and coastal fisheries are set for extinction if wealthy nations don't drastically and immediately...
IPCC report: ‘Last gasp’ warning on climate response for NZ, the...
RNZ News
The climate is changing, faster than we thought - and humans have caused it. Last night, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter,...
ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen...
Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report
By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific
For 74-year-old Teaga Esekia, a chief from the Tuvalu island of Vaitupu, the ocean is a lifeblood.
"Tuvaluans, they have...
Climate crisis: Bold call for security partners to prevent ‘catastrophe’
ANALYSIS: By Pip Hinman in Sydney
Long-time Australian climate campaigner David Spratt and former fossil fuel company executive Ian Dunlop have issued a bold call...
‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says...
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home...