The latest IPCC climate report offers a "nugget of hope" but architects and designers must "make changes to the way they design" to help avert catastrophic climate change, according to Architects Climate Action Network and other UK climate pressure groups. More about IPCC climate report a "call to arms" say architects and designers
To conclude our carbon revolution series, Dezeen is today committing to becoming a net-zero business within four years. More about Dezeen pledges to become a net-zero business by 2025
The global push to reduce atmospheric carbon is being compromised by confusing terminology and misleading claims, argues Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. More about "Carbon washing is the new greenwashing"
The shift to remote working from suburbs and the countryside due to the Covid-19 pandemic could lead to a huge rise in carbon emissions, according to Taylor Francis of decarbonisation platform Watershed. More about Urbanism "is one of the best tools we have" in the fight against climate change
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features news that fewer than six per cent of UK architecture firms have signed up to a RIBA climate initiative. More about News of RIBA's climate initiative features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Norway has started work on Project Longship, a €1.7 billion project that could bury vast amounts of captured carbon under the North Sea in an effort to slow climate change. More about Norway begins work on "absolutely necessary" project to bury up to 1.25 billion tonnes of CO2 under the North Sea
A group of UK architects, developers and contractors have called for compulsory whole-life carbon assessments of buildings in a bid to tackle "hidden" emissions caused by construction supply chains. More about UK industry group calls for new rules to force architects to calculate embodied carbon emissions
Turning the USA into a net-zero carbon economy could involve covering a landmass equivalent to seven states in geoengineering infrastructure, according to environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck. More about Persuading communities to accept the vast solar and wind farms needed to reach net-zero "will be a challenge"
The UN's annual COP26 climate conference will address carbon emissions from buildings for the first time at a day dedicated to the built environment on Thursday 11 November, organisers have confirmed. More about COP26 climate conference confirms day dedicated to cities and the built environment on 11 November
Less than six per cent of UK architecture firms have signed up to a RIBA climate initiative aimed at achieving net-zero carbon emissions from buildings they design. More about Foster, Grimshaw and ZHA among thousands of UK practices failing to back RIBA net-zero carbon challenge
The European Commission has unveiled sweeping proposals to reduce carbon emissions across the continent that include caps for buildings and transport for the first time. More about EU proposes emissions controls for buildings and transport in drive to become "world's first climate-neutral continent"
City leaders are doing more to eliminate global carbon emissions than national governments, according to Hélène Chartier of international network C40 Cities. More about Governments have done "very little" to address climate change says head of zero-carbon development at global cities network
Musician and artist Beatie Wolfe has created an interactive video installation depicting rising carbon levels in the atmosphere. More about From Green to Red installation by Beatie Wolfe makes atmospheric carbon "something that people can relate to"
VenhoevenCS, DS Landschapsarchitecten and Studio Solarix have designed the Butterfly Effect, a proposal to stretch a treetop-level web over a Dutch motorway to provide insects with cleaner air above roads. More about The Butterfly Effect is a bridge to help insects cross the road
Instead of being forced to retreat from the impacts of climate change, humanity could undergo a managed retreat to Planet City, a single, purpose-built metropolis, while carbon removal takes place on a planetary scale, suggests Holly Jean Buck. More about "Planet-wide regeneration could result in a safer climate after a few hundred years"
In this week's comments update, our story quoting experts who say planting trees "doesn't make any sense" in the fight against climate change has triggered a furious reaction from readers. More about Claims that planting trees won't slow climate change are "absolute garbage" says commenter
Afforestation is an unreliable way of permanently sequestering atmospheric carbon, according to several key figures interviewed by Dezeen as part of our carbon revolution series. More about Planting trees "doesn't make any sense" in the fight against climate change due to permanence concerns, say experts
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features our interview with UN climate champion Nigel Topping, who said architecture is one of the slowest sectors to sign up for its Race to Zero decarbonisation scheme. More about An interview with the UN's climate champion features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Food made from captured atmospheric carbon could feed the world while helping to combat climate change, according to Solar Foods CEO Pasi Vainikka. More about Making protein from CO2 can "remove the climate impact of food" says Solar Foods CEO
Architects are failing to engage with the UN's drive to reduce carbon emissions with none of the 50 largest firms signed up to its Race to Zero campaign, according to Nigel Topping, the UN's champion for the upcoming COP26 climate conference. More about Architecture "one of the least well-represented businesses" in UN's net-zero push, says UN climate champion