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Is COP29 at a dead end?

Is COP29 at a dead end?

ByMarco MagriniNov 11, 2024
Geographical's climate columnist Marco Magrini fears that COP29 has nowhere to go as the planet continues to warm
Wildfire clouds over a farm house in the Yosemite Valley, California

The new abnormal: adapting to climate change

ByMarco MagriniAug 28, 2024
Marco Magrini considers how we have become accustomed to climate change, with droughts, heatwaves & floods increasing globally.
What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

ByLogan GourlayJul 25, 2024
Marco Magrini considers the impact on tackling the climate crisis if Donald Trump wins the US election
Concept art of the earth plugged into digital wiring and techonology

We ask AI to explain why we struggle with solving the climate crisis

ByMarco MagriniJul 5, 2024
Marco Magrini asks a sophisticated AI model why we are failing to tackle climate change
The novel The Ministry of the Future starts with record temperatures in India

The sci-fi world of climate change

ByMarco MagriniJun 3, 2024
Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel
concept art of a wooden door in a barren field opening up to a lush green landscape

Doors are closing on solutions, argues the Climate Crisis Advisory Group

ByMarco MagriniApr 18, 2024
The four Rs – reduce, resilience, repair & remove - are now considered to be the keys to tackling the climate crisis, reports Marco Magrini
Wind turbines, Xinjiang, China

Climatewatch: The politics of net zero needs to move as fast as the technology changes

ByMarco MagriniMar 25, 2024
Marco Magrini points out that climate technology is racing ahead of climate politics in finding much-needed solutions
1.5 climate threshold graphic climate change

Climatewatch: 1.5°C? It’s now impossible

ByMarco MagriniFeb 9, 2024
Marco Magrini explains why he fears the 1.5°C warming target is going to be impossible to meet 
Glacier melt in Greenland

Climatewatch: Probability problems

ByMarco MagriniDec 22, 2023
Rather than scaremongering, Marco Magrini argues, scientists have, in fact, erred on the side of caution when predicting climate outcomes
Aerial view of coal power plant high pipes with black smoke moving up polluting atmosphere at sunset

Will the COP28 pledge to ‘transition’ away from fossil fuels be enough?

ByMarco MagriniDec 14, 2023
Marco Magrini considers whether this really is the beginning of the end for carbon energy and we can keep to climate targets
Sultan Al Jaber

COP28 update: can a conflicted president deliver on fossil fuel reduction?

ByMarco MagriniDec 10, 2023
As the haggling in this year's COP gets to the final stages, Marco Magrini, wonders what it will deliver on fossil fuel reduction
Graphic of seasons in a row with summer the biggest

Climatewatch: changing seasons

ByMarco MagriniDec 6, 2023
Marco Magrini on implications of the changing length of the seasons as a warming world brings longer summers and shorter, hotter winters
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