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8 September 2023, BBC News: Climate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming. Tackling climate change needs a rapid transformation of the way our world works, travels, eats and uses energy, according to an important UN review. This is the first “global stocktake” to examine the efforts of countries to reduce planet-warming emissions since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015. While progress has been made, efforts now need to be massively scaled up. The report calls for “radical decarbonisation” with a fast phase out of fossil fuels without carbon capture. Burning fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal to generate electricity emits carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of climate change. Carbon capture in industrial processes and power stations stops most of the CO2 produced from being released, and either reuses it or stores it underground. What is carbon capture and can it fight climate change? A really simple guide to climate change What does net zero mean? Renewable energy also needs significant expansion while deforestation needs to be halted and reversed by 2030. The stocktake report will be considered by political leaders and will be central to global climate talks in Dubai later this year. Over the course of the past two years, the UN has set out to review the promises made by countries who signed the Paris agreement in 2015. At the meeting eight years ago, countries agreed to keep the amount of warming since the industrial revolution well below 2C and make efforts to keep it under 1.5C. The report examines their efforts to cut carbon, to adapt to climate change and how they have mobilised finance and technology to help poorer nations deal with the problem. Read more here