The increased popularity of natural climate solutions (NCS), which aim to protect and restore natural ecosystems to address climate change, has resulted in misunderstandings and confusion around what ...

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Lewis King acknowledges support from the Horizon Europe programme through an ERC Advanced Grant for the project CLIMGROW (grant no. 101097924). Ivan Savin does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

It’s hard to have meaningful conversations around climate when it’s hard to even define “climate.” When I use the term “climate,” to me it’s everything living on Earth and how it’s interconnected — ...

The essence of the Paris climate agreement was distilled into a single number. The almost 200 countries that signed the pact in 2016 agreed they would try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees ...

As the world grapples with how to tackle climate change, countries that signed the Paris Agreement outline their commitments to reduce emissions in documents called Nationally Determined Contributions ...