Climate Crisis Advisory Group bolsters membership ahead of COP30 with two appointments
CCAG announces the joining of two globally renowned climate experts to the group. Dr Guido Schmidt-Traub and Professor Mercedes Bustamante join the fifteen current members as they seek to drive climate action as part of its two year strategy in the run up to COP30 in Brazil.
The “right leader at the right time”: CCAG’s Alice Hill reacts to the appointment of John Podesta as top US climate advisor
The “right leader at the right time”: CCAG’S Alice Hill reacts to the appointment of John Podesta as top US climate advisor
CCAG calls for urgent scientific examination of vital climate interventions – new report
The world’s attempts to reduce global emissions have fallen dangerously short. As a result, emissions reductions alone are no longer enough to put us back on track for a safe and manageable future for humanity.
CCAG calls for unprecedented interventions to mitigate 1.5°C climate overshoot – new report
A momentous global effort must be undertaken to address the near inevitability of a 1.5°C climate overshoot, ensuring that the planet returns below the 1.5°C ‘climate guardrail’ as rapidly as possible.
Renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato joins Climate Crisis Advisory Group
Renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato joins CCAG.
CCAG responds to IEA findings on the global energy transition
CCAG responds to IEA findings on the global energy transition.
Climate resilience must be guiding principle of urban development – new report by world-leading experts
The Climate Crisis Advisory Group (CCAG) release a new report exploring the twin challenges of building resilient cities and funding improvements to the built environment.
CCAG’s message on International Youth Day
CCAG reacts to International Youth Day - taking the time to remind us all that the migration away from fossil fuels is pivotal and ensure that we are providing education in a fair and equitable way right across the world.
Introducing the 4R Planet Strategy
CCAG introduces the 4R Planet Strategy – a simple, comprehensive approach that our world-leading experts believe is the only path that can deliver a safe and manageable future for humanity.
COP27: CCAG responds
Following a deal at COP27 being reached on Sunday, members of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group react.
Brazil: a new chapter beckons
With the re-election of Lula, Brazil is poised to accelerate critical action on climate change.
India: help needed to accelerate its energy transition
While India is on track to meet its commitment of net zero emissions by 2070, it desperately needs global support to accelerate this transition – for the world’s sake as well as India’s.
US: the world’s second largest emitter must resolve internal conflicts
CCAG welcomes recent steps forward such as the Inflation Reduction Act but urges the country to go further, faster.
China: how the economic superpower can play its part in tackling climate change
While China has made significant progress on its energy transition, it must accelerate these efforts, with the world’s support, to help ensure a manageable future for humanity.
CCAG calls for holistic approach to global food systems and climate change
CCAG’s latest report argues that efforts to combat climate change must address the challenges of food systems, ensuring that strategies for meeting food demands take account of emissions.
Urgent reframing of loss and damage called for by CCAG at COP27 to ensure no further delay in just and orderly transition
CCAG calls for COP27 to address and compensate for loss and damage without delay, and for ‘infinite loss’ from climate impact to be at the forefront of negotiations.
Risk management approach to climate change will mitigate against ‘ruin scenario’, says new report
A new report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) written in collaboration with The Climate Crisis Advisory Group warns that even under the current targets set out in the Glasgow Pact, global society is heading towards a ‘ruin scenario’.
Cities urged to act now in battle against climate crisis
CCAG’s latest report argues that cities offer the greatest opportunity for a collective mitigation response to the climate crisis.
Record-breaking heatwave will be an average summer by 2035, latest Met Office Hadley Centre data shows
The record-breaking heatwave experienced across Europe in 2022 will be considered an “average” summer by 2035, even if countries meet their current climate commitments so far agreed in negotiations under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Ukraine war should be ‘nail in the coffin’ of fossil-fuel driven world economy, urges CCAG
The Climate Crisis Advisory Group calls for a rejection of policy and rhetoric in favour of fossil fuels as a response to the Ukraine war