The Guardian climate pledge 2025

Since our 2024 climate pledge, there has been a global pushback against green progress. This update reflects the urgent and growing challenges facing our planet - and how the Guardian is more focused than ever on exposing the causes of the climate crisisIn the past three weeks, more than 50,000 Guardian readers have supported our annual environment support campaign. If you believe in the power of independent journalism, please consider joining them todayThe Guardian has long been at the forefront of agenda-setting climate journalism, and in a news cycle dominated by autocrats and war, we refuse to let the health of the planet slip out of sight.2024 was the hottest year on record, driving the annual global temperature above the internationally agreed 1.5C target for the first timeWinter temperatures at the north pole reached more than 20C above the 1991-2020 average in early 2025, crossing the threshold for ice to meltThe planet's remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissionsHumans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to the largest syntheses of the human impacts on biodiversity ever conducted worldwideTipping points - in the Amazon, Antarctic, coral reefs and more - could cause fundamental parts of the Earth's system to change dramatically, irreversibly and with devastating effects. We asked the experts about the latest science - and how it makes them feelPublished our annual company emissions data, explaining what drives our emissions and where they have risen and fallenCreated a digital course, as part of an initiative by the Sustainable Journalism Partnership, sharing examples from experts across the Guardian of how to embed sustainability into journalism and media commercial operationsContributed our time and knowledge to working groups in the advertising industry that are working on better ways to measure the emissions impact of advertising Continue reading...