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Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion tonnes in 2025, a 1.1% increase over 2024, and fossil combustion continues to account for roughly n...
Data centers — including the servers that run AI — are a growing source of electricity demand and emissions, but by most published metrics they remain a small slice of global greenhouse-gas output com...
Solar geoengineering—mostly studied as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) or marine cloud brightening—could cool the planet but carries a range of environmental side effects that researchers and ag...
Climate models and scenario analyses produce a wide range of projected atmospheric CO2 concentrations for mid‑century because outcomes depend entirely on future emissions pathways and policy choices: ...
The preponderance of climate science concludes that human activities are essentially responsible for the recent global warming trend: best estimates place the human contribution at roughly 100% of obs...
China remains by far the world’s largest annual greenhouse‑gas emitter, accounting for roughly one‑third of global emissions and emitting an estimated 15.1–15.2 GtCO2e in 2025 according to Climate Act...
Fossil fuels and cement accounted for about 38.1 billion tonnes CO2 (≈90%) of total CO2 emissions in 2025, while land‑use change contributed roughly 4.1 billion tonnes CO2 (≈10%), giving total anthrop...
Global warming is intensifying: 2025 is on track to be the second or third warmest year on record and the past 11 years (2015–2025) are the warmest in the 176‑year observational record, with January–A...
Mainstream scientific reporting and major institutions state that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions — primarily carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and gas, plus methane — are the principal driv...
China’s CO2 and broader GHG emissions have shown a recent pause: multiple analyses report emissions were “flat or falling” for 18 months through Q3 2025, with some estimates finding 2025 emissions ess...
China is building national systems to measure, report and price carbon: it aims to have annual and interim carbon reporting and a national greenhouse gas emission factor database by 2025 , is upgradin...
Multiple independent scientific assessments conclude that recent global warming is overwhelmingly driven by human activities — principally greenhouse‑gas emissions from burning fossil fuels, land‑use ...
The UK has cut territorial greenhouse‑gas emissions roughly in half since 1990 and set a new interim target of an at least 81% reduction by 2035 relative to 1990 (or 1950 in one source’s phrasing), wh...
Climate models separate "natural" and "human" drivers by running historical simulations with different sets of forcings—natural-only (solar, volcanic), human-only (greenhouse gases, land use, aerosols...
Global surface temperatures are running near record highs, with a high probability that at least one year between 2025–2029 will exceed 1.5°C above pre‑industrial levels and the 2025–2029 five‑year av...
Yes — multiple recent assessments show Earth is warmer now than in pre‑industrial times and that 2024–2025 are among the hottest years on record: global mean temperatures in 2025 are predicted to be 1...
The preponderance of major scientific bodies and multiple lines of evidence conclude that recent global warming is primarily driven by human activities — mainly greenhouse‑gas emissions from burning f...
Major scientific bodies conclude human activities — primarily burning fossil fuels, deforestation and some agricultural practices — are the principal cause of the warming observed since the Industrial...
Solar geoengineering and carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) carry a wide range of environmental risks—stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) may deplete ozone and increase acid deposition, and large-scale CD...
Labour’s government has added large capital and targeted programme commitments since the 2024 manifesto: a headline £113bn boost to capital infrastructure over the spending review period and multi‑bil...