Category: Climate & Energy

Climate priority is to curb near-term temperatures

The Financial Times January 4, 2026

Kudos to Pilita Clark (“Overshoot will make climate politics even harder”, Opinion, December 19) for having the courage to say what most climate experts know but will not utter — which is that fast-rising global temperatures, already 1.5°C above…

Where Global Emissions Stand, 10 Years After Paris

The Guardian December 16, 2025

Ten years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is easy to dwell on its failures. But the successes go less remarked…

Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?

The Guardian November 16, 2025

For two years, global temperatures have exceeded the 1.5C heating limit laid out in the Paris climate agreement. This overshooting will have “devastating consequences”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned.

Paul Bledsoe

Politics & Policy

Category: Climate & Energy

Climate priority is to curb near-term temperatures

Where Global Emissions Stand, 10 Years After Paris

Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?

Paul Bledsoe

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