Intempéries

Compromis, mesures volontaires et absence de mention des combustibles fossiles : points clés de l’accord de la COP30 […] Le sommet des Nations unies sur le climat COP30 a fait avancer la lutte contre la crise climatique et les dommages qu’elle cause déjà aux vies et aux moyens de subsistance. Mais les mesures convenues constituent des pas en avant, plutôt que les bonds en avant nécessaires.

A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return. Working first at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research and more recently at the University of São Paulo, he is a global authority on tropical forests and how they could be restored.

The Kenyan marine ecologist David Obura is chair of a panel of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the world’s leading natural scientists. For many decades, his speciality has been corals, but he has warned that the next generation may not see their glory because so many reefs are now “flickering out across the world”.

The world has been too optimistic about the risk to humanity and planet – but devastation can still be avoided, says Timothy Lenton

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend