UK Conservatives cited an incorrect £957 billion net-zero cost figure in a policy document, apparently stemming from a spreadsheet error that doubled the Climate Change Committee’s actual 2020 estimate of £478 billion.

The UN Environment Programme reports that exceeding the 1.5C warming limit is now “inevitable” due to decades of insufficient climate action, with only potential to minimize the extent of overshoot.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged Britain will achieve net zero emissions by 2050 despite approving the Jackdaw gasfield, vowing to block future North Sea oil and gas licenses.

Officials and environmental leaders gathered in Armenia for Cop17 to negotiate a comprehensive agreement aimed at halting nature destruction, amid concerns that current 2030 targets remain significantly off schedule.

According to Carbon Brief analysis, 58% of countries have submitted new biodiversity pledges two years after the original deadline, ahead of the COP17 summit in Armenia next week.

A Norwegian village where temperatures are rising five to seven times faster than the global average has banned tap water due to heavy metal contamination linked to thawing permafrost.

Nations failed for the sixth time to agree on a timeline for publishing the IPCC’s seventh assessment report, with divisions between countries seeking alignment with a 2028 UN climate stocktake and those advocating for later publication dates.

New analysis reveals wholesale gas costs drove nearly 90% of UK electricity bill increases since 2020, contradicting claims that net-zero targets are responsible for high energy bills.

Climate scientists are increasingly using artificial intelligence for weather forecasting, satellite image analysis, and climate modeling, though challenges include overreliance on unverified results and intensive energy consumption.

Nearly all shallow-water coral reefs globally, including the Great Barrier Reef, face high risk of ecosystem collapse before 2075 due to climate change, according to UN nature advisers.

California is preparing for torrential rainfall from a record-strength El Niño by capturing and storing stormwater underground through managed aquifer recharge, reducing flood risks while banking water for future droughts.

Fifteen Canadian youth will argue in court that their government violated constitutional rights by failing to adequately address climate change, marking one of the most significant climate cases to reach trial.