Climate Breakdown

Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.

Scientists confirm climate feedback with warmer temperatures turning soils into a net carbon contributor.

Fossil fuels have barely been mentioned in previous climate talks. COP26 has seen a shift, and new movements are forming.

New draft of Cop26 deal weakens language on fossil fuel phaseout.

'The most important meeting in human history has failed abysmally to rise to the challenge of slashing emissions.'

Revelations, reflections and reservations from the COP26 halls of power and the streets of ire.

Heat stress – a combination of dangerous heat and humidity – currently affects 68 million people globally.

Vulnerable countries risk GDPs falling 13 percent by 2050 even if 1.5 target discussed at COP26 is met.

Climate trauma will impact people the world over - and especially in the global south. We need ecological repair to prevent such harm.

Groups from Panama, Amazonia, Patagonia, Alaska and the wider USA were today joined by activists at COP26 in Glasgow.

We chartered a train to Glasgow for COP26 and took 500 people with us. This is what we learned.

We need millions of new climate jobs every year if we have any hope of cutting the emissions necessary to avert breakdown.

'Mitigating climate change by reducing carbon emissions is simply not enough. We have to adapt.'

'We brought sacred water from the highest parts of the Andes to the Americas section of the British Museum, which is full of stolen objects and symbols of colonial power.'

We just can't have fossil fuel investors and industries sponsoring climate conferences like COP26.