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The effects of climate change have a cost and Loss and Damage compensation has formally made it on the COP27 climate summit agenda for the first time. Newsnight’s Science Correspondent Kate Lamble looks at exactly what this may mean for many developing countries, which have low fossil fuel emissions but …

Months on from devastating floods in Pakistan, millions of people remain homeless, roads are destroyed and tens of thousands of schools and hospitals lie in ruins. At the COP27 climate summit, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on Western nations to offer compensation to poorer, vulnerable countries like his, which …

The United Nations climate change summit has opened in Egypt with dire warnings about the future of the planet. A new UN report has revealed that the last 8 years were the hottest on record. It warns that recent extreme temperatures, wildfires and flooding are signals that climate change is …

Countries must prioritise tackling climate change or the world faces catastrophe. That warning comes from the head of the United Nations, António Guterres, who was speaking to the BBC in New York, before a major climate conference in Egypt. Mr Guterres warned of a tendency to put climate change on …

Svalbard in the Arctic Circle is estimated to be heating at six times the global average. The consensus is that the temperature in Svalbard has jumped 4C in the past 50 years. Since the 1980s, the amount of summer sea ice has halved and some scientists fear it will be …

Communities in northern Greenland have lived in one of the world’s toughest environments for centuries. But temperatures have risen faster in the Arctic region than elsewhere on earth, and the impact of climate change is being felt on the local way of life. Greenland‘s ice cap is the single biggest …

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When Australia was devastated by bushfires two years ago, photographer Hilary Wardhaugh decided to start a campaign. She gathered photos from women across the country, documenting climate change across the country, and will present the visual petition to MPs on June 9. The new Australian government has promised to cut …

The UN says the Russia-Ukraine conflict has left many nations vulnerable to food insecurity. Global food prices are at a near all-time high and more than a dozen countries are banning grain exports. In Zimbabwe, maize production plummeted by 43% this year following long dry spells. It’s one of the …

Record-breaking heatwaves in north-west India and Pakistan are 100 times more likely to occur because of climate change, according to a new study by the UK’s Met Office. Temperatures once predicted to happen every 300 years could now occur on average three times every decade. Pakistan and India have suffered …