Jean-Marc Jancovici

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.

A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown. Pierre Ozer has been expecting these floods for decades.

The accelerating thaw of Antarctica might drive sea levels up by more than five metres by 2300 unless governments act quickly to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a UN report said on Wednesday.