September 2025

03/09/2025: Gidden M J et al have published a paper “A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage”, Nature | Vol 645 | 4 September 2025, re-looking at this issue. This work concludes that the Earth’s capacity for safely storing carbon might be 10 times smaller than previously predicted, limiting its impact as a tool against the climate crisis - cutting global warming by 0.7°C, much lower than the 6°C that was previously estimated.

August 202

30/08/2025: A large group of climate science experts, [Dessler, A.E. and R.E. Kopp (Ed.).[ concerned about the DOE review of the impacts of GHG - below - have submitted , to DOE, “ Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group (CWG) Report” because the CWG report currently fails to adequately represent the scientific understanding of climate change.

28/08/2025: YIJIE WANG et al have published a paper in Science Volume 389 Issue 6763, “Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation” that suggests <40 petagrams of carbon storage by 2050 from reforestation and afforestation, which is much lower than previous estimates.

14/08/2025: In response to the US DOE “review” below, Carbon Brief has published Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

July 2025

23/07/2025: The United States Department of Energy (DOE) published A critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate - commissioned by the Trump administration in an attempt to justify a rollback of US climate regulations

23/07/2025: The International Court of Justice has delivered a landmark “Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change”. Unfortunately, S/Space isn’t accepting the link - it is https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/187/187-20250723-adv-01-00-en.pdf

22/07/2025: A United Nations report “A Moment of Opportunity”, a special technical report about clean energy. Note: Positively, 88% of New Zealand’s electricity generation was from renewable sources in 2023, however 99% of transport energy and 60% of our industrial energy is from the use of fossil fuels]

14/07/2025: A Review - the “State of the UK Climate 2024” - has been published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climatology, Volume 45, Number S1

14/07/2025: A Guardian editorial suggesting that an annual address on climate - as delivered by the UK Energy Secretary - could “set a new standard for political accountability”

May 2025

29/05/2025: A news item about Atlantic Ocean Current Expected to Undergo Limited Weakening with Climate Change - although the AMOC will weaken under global warming, it is likely to do so to a much lesser extent than current projections suggest.

28/05/2025: A World Meteorological Organisation report “Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update (2025-2029)” projects that global temperatures are expected to continue at or near record levels in the next five years,

7/05/2025: An open access paper in Nature Climate Change on High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide

April 2025

11/04/25: The US site Health Policy Watch has reported that the US is to Stop Reporting Majority of Climate Emissions

March 2025

25/03/2025: An article published on LinkedIn on Climate Risk Insurance: The Future of Capitalism

2/03/2025: The Boston Consulting Group publication “Landing the Economic Case for Climate Action with Decision Makers”

19/03/25: The World Meteorological Organisation has released its State of the Global Climate 2024 report

February 2025

15/02/25: An article by Gaia Vince in The Guardian “Extreme weather is our new reality. We must accept it and begin planning”

January 2025

17/01/25: An article by Damian Carrington in The Guardian “Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2”

16/1/25: Institute and Facility of Actuaries/University of Exeter “Planetary Solvency - finding our balance with nature. Global risk management for human prosperity”