Corporate climate spending now steers trillions of dollars in transition finance worldwide. Does it drive genuine climate action? Research shows that accounting flexibility alone can make a company's reported emissions vary by roughly a factor of two – enough to appear either as a climate leader or a laggard. A new Perspective in Nature Sustainability proposes developing industry-specific net-zero blueprints to close that gap.

IIASA researchers and partners have developed an open-source tool that makes it much faster to generate regional climate and impact projections while capturing the uncertainties that shape future climate risks.

A new study on how rising temperatures will affect rice production in Science Advances compares 214 observations from field-warming experiments with seven crop models, revealing modelled estimates for yield reductions from 1°C of global warming were roughly half those of the real-world observed experiments (3.8 percent instead of 8.1 percent). The study was led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Climate change has increased childhood malaria and could continue to do so in southern and East Africa where communities are less experienced at tackling the disease, while reducing the risk in today’s hotspots as temperatures become too high for mosquitoes. 

Changing patterns of heat and daylight in urban environments are creating growing inequalities, with climate-related shifts reshaping daily life and disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have examined how elemental conditions such as rising temperatures and changing daylight experiences influence the way people live, move and interact within cities - using London and Delhi as examples.

Long, narrow bands of moving moisture in the sky, known as atmospheric rivers, contribute to heatwaves in the marine environment, according to a new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. The study, which received funding from NASA, is the first to analyze the association between these “rivers in the sky” and marine heatwaves, paving the way for future research on the mechanisms at play and how climate change factors in.