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Argentinian scientists condemn budget cuts ahead of university protest - Climate Change News - Science (Apr 22) |
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Apr 22 · Right-wing President Javier Milei has taken an axe to funding for education and scientific bodies, sparking fears for climate research
A medical student walks past a placard announcing the time left before the budget for the university runs out, at the entrance of the University of Buenos Aires Medical School, in the run-up to a national strike on April 23 against Argentina's President Javier Milei's policy of cuts in public education, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 17, 2024 (Photo: REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian)
As a budget freeze for Argentina’s public universities amid soaring inflation leaves campuses unable to pay their electricity bills and climate science ... | By Julian Reingold Read more ...
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Cancellation of UN climate weeks removes platform for worst-hit communities - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 28) |
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Mar 28 · Comment: The UNFCCC has said it will not hold regional climate weeks in 2024 due to a funding shortfall – which means less inclusion for developing-country voices
A woman of the Turkana tribe waits with plastic containers to get water from a well, amid the worst drought in East Africa's history, February 17, 2023. (Photo: Simone Boccaccio / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
If the world’s most vulnerable are not at the table, then UN climate talks are no longer fit for purpose.
This week, the UN climate change body (UNFCCC) confirmed that this year’s Regional Climate Weeks will be cancelled until further notice due to lack of funding.
The update comes shortly after ... | By Dulce Marrumbe Read more ...
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What will it take to protect India’s angry farmers from climate threats? - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 27) |
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Mar 27 · Indebted farmers, facing falling yields and water scarcity, want legally guaranteed price support for more crops – but that may not fix their climate woes
Deedar Singh (middle) sits with colleagues by the side of the road at the Shambhu border, between Punjab and Haryana, protesting the government's inaction in providing legal MSP guarantees on crops, February 27 2024 (Photo: Kanika Gupta)
Indian farmers – struggling with erratic weather, shrinking water supplies and falling incomes – have quit their fields in a major new wave of protest, and plan to keep up the pressure on the government ahead of national elections starting on April ... | By Kanika Gupta Read more ...
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Switzerland proposes first UN expert group on solar geoengineering - Climate Change News - Science (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · A draft resolution aimed at creating a space for discussion on sun dimming technologies will be debated at the annual summit of the UN’s environment body this month
Solar radiation modification aims to mask the effect of climate change by reflecting more sunlight back into space. Photo: maxime raynal
Switzerland wants to advance global talks on whether controversial solar geoengineering techniques should be used to compensate for climate change by cooling down the earth.
It is proposing to create the first United Nations expert group to “examine risks and opportunities” of solar radiation management (SRM), a suite of largely untested technologies aimed at ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Adaptation playbook is the true test of Cop28 for world’s vulnerable - Climate Change News - Science (Dec 10) |
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Dec 10 · While most attention is on fossil fuels, the US is blocking progress on an adaptation playbook, a matter of life or death for many Africans
Seaweed farmers in Tanzania are having to move into deeper waters as seaweed-killing bacteria thrives in warming seas (Photo: Natalija Gormalova / Climate Visuals Countdown)
Although the phase out of fossil fuels has got most of the attention at Cop28, the outcome that will likely make the biggest difference to most people on the planet in the short- and medium-term is if countries come to an agreement on the global goal on adaptation.
This global goal is a playbook for how the world is going to adapt to a climate that is ... | By Mohamed Adow Read more ...
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OECD: Rich countries “likely” to hit $100bn climate finance goal in 2022 - Climate Change News - Science (Nov 17) |
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Nov 17 · Data shows countries provided $89.6bn in 2021, but funding for adaptation declined.
Flooding in north-eastern Nigeria in 2015 (Photo: Immanuel Afolabi/Conflict & Development at Texas A&M/Flickr)
Rich countries “look likely” to have met a long-overdue goal to provide $100 billion a year in climate finance to vulnerable countries in 2022, two years later than promised.
The claim made by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which carries out an annual assessment of the pledge, is based “on preliminary and as yet unverified data” that has not been made public.
Detailed figures have been made available for ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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UK aid cuts leave Malawi vulnerable to droughts and cyclones - Climate Change News - Science (Nov 13) |
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Nov 13 · After the UK cut short a £52m climate adaptation scheme in Malawi, vulnerable communities saw their livelihoods destroyed by Cyclone Freddy
After cyclone Freddy ravaged Malawi at the start of the year, mother-of-nine Elube Sandram was left staring at a trail of devastation.
Flood water had destroyed all her corn crops, an essential lifeline to feed her family and earn a modest income. The spiralling costs of seeds and fertilisers put replanting beyond her reach.
“The cyclone left me completely with nothing”, she told Climate Home News.
As Sandram searched for help, she said no relief was available aside from the limited support she could obtain from family ... | By Raphael Mweninguwe and Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Talks to boost ‘underfinanced’ climate adaptation split over money - Climate Change News - Science (Nov 8) |
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Nov 8 · Developing and developed countries are wrangling over whether finance should be included in an adaptation framework to be approved at Cop28
A man building a coastal protection system at Anse Kerlan beach in the Seychelles. Photo: Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR / UNEP
As years-long negotiations over boosting global efforts to adapt to climate change enter the final stretch, countries are still divided over targets and the funding to achieve them.
At Cop28 next month, governments are expected to approve a framework to make the Paris Agreement’s global goal on adaptation (GGA) more concrete. The initiative is aimed at enhancing nations’ resilience to extreme weather ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Brazilian government eyes money from Amazon Fund for controversial road - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 26, 2023) |
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Sep 26, 2023 · Brazil’s transport ministry plans to bid for money from the Amazon Fund to pave the world’s “most sustainable highway”
Digger excavating the BR-319. (Photo: Ben Sutherland/Wikimedia Commons)
Brazilian government officials are targeting resources from the Amazon Fund, one of the main bilateral tools for countries to invest in the Amazon, to pay for a controversial road project in the rainforest.
The plan, announced in late August by the country’s Minister of Transportation, Renan Filho, was met with suspicion by environmentalists who are familiar with the fund’s guidelines.
During a press conference announcing new infrastructure ... | By Patricia Figueiredo Read more ...
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Overshoot Commission calls for research into solar geoengineering - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 14, 2023) |
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Sep 14, 2023 · Dimming the sun could “complement” emissions cuts, says panel of leaders, while acknowledging concerns about the risks
Solar radiation modification aims to mask the effect of climate change by reflecting more sunlight back into space. Photo: Luis Boza/Unsplash
Governments should expand research into controversial solar geoengineering, while placing a moratorium on large-scale experiments outdoors, a panel of leaders has recommended.
The Overshoot Commission was set up last year to examine ways of reducing risks if and when global heating surpasses 1.5C.
In a report published on Thursday, it called for an acceleration in emission reductions, more ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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