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It’s time to end the UN’s artificial divide between biodiversity and climate - Climate Change News - Science (Oct 21, 2024) |
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Oct 21, 2024 · Comment: The biodiversity and climate crises are interlinked – and failing to coordinate our response leaves critical ecosystems like forests and peatlands at risk
A few days before the start of the World Nature Conference, CBD COP16 in Cali, Colombia, Greenpeace activists demonstrate on the United Nations square in front of the UN campus in Bonn, Germany, using a display of five dominoes showing plants and animals. (Photo: IMAGO/Bonn.digital via Reuters Connect)
An Lambrechts is a senior campaign strategist at Greenpeace International; Cyril Kormos is founder and executive director of Wild Heritage; and Virginia Young is director of the International Forests and ... | By An Lambrechts, Cyril Kormos and Virginia Young Read more ...
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Guyana’s carbon-credit deal to protect forests undermines its forest protectors - Climate Change News - Science (Oct 03, 2024) |
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Oct 03, 2024 · Comment: Guyana’s Indigenous communities are under siege from all sides – including an opaque carbon-offsetting scheme agreed by the government on our lands
The world's highest single drop-off of water, the Kaieteur Falls, are seen from a natural overlook above the Potaro River in southwest Guyana, on August 9, 2000. (Photo: Reuters file/Stringer)
Mario Hastings is a community leader and former Toshao of Kako Village in Upper Mazaruni, Guyana.
The Essequibo region of Guyana where I live lies at the heart of Guyana’s economic expansion – it’s one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Essequibo is also the home of many of Guyana’s Indigenous ... | By Mario Hastings Read more ...
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Delaying the EU’s anti-deforestation law is not an option - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 03, 2024) |
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Sep 03, 2024 · Comment: The EU’s new deforestation law was seen as a breakthrough in the global battle against forest loss, but it’s provoking fractious debate among governments and producers
People dry cocoa beans in the Ivorian cocoa farming village of Djigbadji, commonly known as Bandikro or Bandit Town, located inside the Rapides Grah protected forest and destroyed by forest authorities in January 2020, in Soubre, Ivory Coast on January 7, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Luc Gnago)
Nicole Polsterer is the sustainable production and consumption campaigner at forests and rights NGO, Fern.
Initially the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) was hailed as a game-changer in the fight ... | By Nicole Polsterer Read more ...
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Climate disasters challenge right to safe and adequate housing - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 22, 2024) |
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Aug 22, 2024 · Climate-proofing homes is now an essential response to regular extreme weather events and can help prevent displacement
Climate disasters displace millions of people each year.
In 2023, the figure reached 26.4 million worldwide as a result of floods, storms, wildfires and other disasters, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
Climate change is not solely responsible, but the frequency and intensity of extreme weather is increasing as global temperatures continue to rise. As a result we can expect that more and more people will face losing their homes and their livelihoods.
It is commonplace to see people boarding up their homes and ... | By Adam Wentworth Read more ...
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The UN can set a new course on “critical” transition minerals - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 20, 2024) |
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Aug 20, 2024 · Comment: A high-level panel is working to define principles for responsible mining, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September
Indigenous protesters march with banners, flags and placards during a demonstration on "La Pachamama," or Mother Earth Day on August 1, 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Indigenous leaders from Jujuy protested against a provincial constitutional reform they claim is an attempt against their ancestral rights to lands the state aims to use for lithium mining. (Photo by Mariana Nedelcu/SOPA Images/Sipa USA/via Reuters)
Claudia Velarde is Co-director of the Ecosystems Program at the Interamerican Association for Environmental ... | By Claudia Velarde, Stephanie Weiss and Jessica Solórzano Read more ...
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FAO draft report backs growth of livestock industry despite emissions - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 14, 2024) |
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Aug 14, 2024 · Experts say the UN’s food agency has shied away from recommending less animal farming, though cutting methane emissions is a quick way to curb warming
Aerial view of dairy cows eating at a breeding base on August 12, 2024 in Lingwu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China (Photo: Yuan Hongyan/VCG/via Reuters)
The livestock industry is essential for food security and economic development, according to a draft report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) that reinforces its defence of practices in the emissions-heavy sector in recent years.
Former and current FAO officials and academics have criticised the document, seen by Climate Home ... | By Arthur Neslen Read more ...
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IPCC’s input into key UN climate review at risk as countries clash over timeline - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 05, 2024) |
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Aug 05, 2024 · Most governments want reports ready before the next global stocktake, but a dozen developing nations are opposed over inclusivity concerns
IPCC delegates exchange views on the final day of the session in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: Photo by IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou
Governments have again failed to agree on a schedule for producing key climate science reports as deep divergences blocked progress at a meeting of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) last week.
At the talks in Sofia, Bulgaria, most countries supported a faster process that would see three flagship reports assessing the state of climate science delivered by mid-2028, in time ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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The IPCC must produce its flagship report in time for the next UN global stocktake - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 31, 2024) |
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Jul 31, 2024 · Comment: An IPCC author from the Global South on why aligning the two timelines is crucial for the integrity of international climate cooperation
A plenary meeting at the 61st session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo: IISD/ENB | Anastasia Rodopoulou
Dr Youba Sokona is an energy and sustainable development expert from Mali and was a vice chair of the IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seventh Assessment Report can and must be ready in time for the second Global Stocktake (GST).
The IPCC report plays a pivotal role in assessing climate change science and ... | By Youba Sokona Read more ...
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UN chief appeals for global action to tackle deadly extreme heat - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 25, 2024) |
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Jul 25, 2024 · António Guterres calls extreme heat “the new abnormal” as he urges countries to step up protection of vulnerable populations
Iraqi workers harvest potato crops, which has been damaged by a heatwave and environmental and climatic changes, in Mosul, Iraq, July 15, 2023. REUTERS/Khalid Al-Mousily
People everywhere are struggling with the fatal impacts of worsening extreme heat, which is also damaging economies, widening inequalities and undermining the world’s development goals, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday.
Calling for global action to limit the devastating consequences, the head of the United Nations said “billions ... | By Megan Rowling and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Africa cannot afford to be complacent about solar radiation management - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 04, 2024) |
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Jul 04, 2024 · Comment: As the solar geoengineering debate heats up, it is time for voices across the continent to work together and make themselves heard
A solar eclipse is viewed from the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, USA, on April 8. Photo: Greg Wohlford / USA TODAY NETWORK
Saliem Fakir is the executive director of the African Climate Foundation. Shuchi Talati (PhD) is the executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering.
Global temperatures have crossed 1.1oC above pre-industrial levels. They are likely to cross the 1.5oC Paris Agreement threshold within the next decade, and despite countries’ pledges to reduce the greenhouse gas ... | By Saliem Fakir and Shuchi Talati Read more ...
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