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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 — ...

Economic models used by governments, central banks and investors are increasingly understating physical climate risk because they rely on assumptions that break down as the world moves toward higher ...

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 ...