Fairness will be key to successfully tackling the climate crisis | Larry Elliott

Just as inequality fuelled the pandemic, it could wreck plans to cut emissionsThe message from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could hardly be clearer. Business as usual means global temperatures will rise by more than 1.5C above pre-indu…

Sicily logs apparent highest ever temperature in Europe at 48.8C

Reading at monitoring station in Syracuse unverified but comes amid heatwave in last few daysThe highest temperature in European history appears to have been recorded in Italy during a heatwave sweeping the country, with early reports suggesting a high…