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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) |
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Sep 26 · 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) |
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Sep 14 · 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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‘Carbon bomb’ in Argentina gets push from local government - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 31) |
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Aug 31 · Argentina’s southern city of Sierra Grande started public hearings for a shipping terminal to export from Vaca Muerta, the world’s second largest shale gas reserve
Orlando Carriqueo, Werken or messenger of the Mapuche Tehuelche Parliament of Río Negro playing a trutruca during the anti-oil rally in March 2023. (Photo: Carolina Blumenkranc)
Regional authorities in Argentina’s southern city of Sierra Grande are pushing a major oil and gas exporting terminal despite ecological and climate concerns.
The Vaca Muerta Sur terminal could bring a surge in Argentina’s oil and gas exports, unlocking the Vaca Muerta field, which holds the world’s ... | By Julian Reingold Read more ...
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Devastating floods test China’s ‘sponge cities’ - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 17) |
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Aug 17 · Despite Beijing’s sponge city project, the capital was overwhelmed by recent floods with dozens dying and a new “sponge airport” shut down
FILE PHOTO: A man operates a front loader to evacuate people through a flooded road after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China August 3, 2023. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
Recent devastating floods in Beijing have put China’s drive to create “sponge cities” which can handle extreme rain to the test.
Since 2013, China has been trying to make cities like Beijing more flood-proof by replacing roads, pavements and rooftops with natural materials like ... | By Alok Gupta Read more ...
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Mainstream economists accused of playing down climate threat - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 8) |
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Aug 8 · Economic models have ignored tipping points, rainfall changes and indoor work, leading them to under-estimate climate change’s economic damage
A woman stands on the logs in front of her ruined house after flash floods in Indonesia (Photo credit: Hariandi Hafid/Greenpeace)
Mainstream economics has consistently understated the economic damage of climate change, according to two recent reports.
As economic models fail to include tipping points, floods, droughts or indoor work, they hugely underplay the economic damage that global warming will do, the reports argue.
The models are relied upon by investors, politicians, central bank governors and influential ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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UN deep-sea mining talks deadlocked over agenda clash - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 27) |
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Jul 27 · A dozen countries want to officially debate for the first time in history the possibility to halt deep-sea mining, but have faced opposition from China and the island-nation of Nauru.
A new species discovered at 4,100 meters in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ) that lives on sponge stalks attached to polymetallic nodules. Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research
As crunch talks about the future of deep-sea mining enter the final stretch, governments have not yet been able to agree on the agenda for the meeting at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica.
The stalemate is dragging on as attempts to formally discuss a ... | By Matteo Civillini and Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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Morocco’s centuries-old irrigation system under threat from climate change - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 30) |
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Jun 30 · As Morocco faces increasingly extreme temperatures, indigenous communities in the country’s southeast suffer the brunt of the climate crisis
The Tinghir province has one of the most water-stressed communities in Morocco. Photo: J
For tourists, a trip to Morocco’s southeast most likely involves taking a coach bus or rented SUV to the Merzouga Desert.
The journey is equal parts dramatic and harrowing - with canyon-like views of the Atlas Mountains via treacherous switchbacks, and a vast landscape of desert beyond Ouarzazate.
Along the way - some 330 kilometers from Marrakech - the commune of Imider sits nestled on Morocco’s National Route 10 (N10). Hardly ... | By Rachel Santarsiero Read more ...
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Last-minute compromise avoids break down on adaptation goals - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 16) |
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Jun 16 · In fraught nations, developing countries wanted to focus on specific targets, while developed nations only wanted to talk about structure
Members of the G-77/China group huddle in the corridors before final discussions. Photo: IISD/ENB - Kiara Worth
Talks over setting ambitious goals for the world’s efforts to adjust to the effects of climate change were rescued at the very last minute during climate talks in Bonn, following bitter divisions between developing and developed countries.
The fraught negotiations in Germany centered on the framework for the global goal on adaptation, an initiative aimed at enhancing nations’ resilience to extreme weather events, ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Bonn talks offer opportunity to bridge the adaptation gap - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 05, 2023) |
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Jun 05, 2023 · With climate devastation growing, we can’t keep sidelining climate adaptation at governments’ climate talks
Farmers from Nego' Kebly village in Luxor receiving training on improved agricultural practices for wheat harvests (Photo: Adaptation Fund)
As negotiators gather for this year’s Bonn climate conference, they must put more focus on setting a global goal on adapting the world to climate change, which is known as adaptation.
So far, global efforts on adaptation have been reactive and incremental for two key reasons. One is a significant shortfall in finance for adaptation and the second is these issues being sidelined in multilateral climate agendas. | By Amy Gilliam Thorp Read more ...
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Reporting on climate adaptation is a mess – here’s how to fix it - Climate Change News - Science (Apr 26, 2023) |
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Apr 26, 2023 · Information about projects to help adapt to climate change is scattered, hard-to-find and incomplete, making keeping track of them impossible
Rising sea levels have caused flooding in the Marshall Islands. (Photo: Genevieve French/Greenpeace)
More and more people are recognising that the world needs to adjust to climate change as well as cut emissions.
In the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries agreed to set a global goal on adjusting, which is known as adaptation. But it is still very difficult to track and demonstrate progress towards this target because of a lack of rigour in how these projects are officially reported and evaluated.
Two years ago, we at the ... | By Richard J T Klein, Nella Canales and Biljana Macura Read more ...
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US pledges $1 billion to Green Climate Fund amid call to keep 1.5C in reach - Climate Change News - Science (Apr 20, 2023) |
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Apr 20, 2023 · Joe Biden urged leaders of major emitting economies to step up efforts to roll out zero-emission vehicles, cut methane emissions and deploy carbon capture technologies
U.S. President Joe Biden convenes the fourth virtual leader-level meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2023. (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
The US will provide $1 billion to the UN’s flagship climate fund – its first such contribution in six years.
Joe Biden made the commitment as he hosted a virtual meeting of world leaders on Thursday to spur high-level leadership to limit global warming to 1.5C.
This is the first ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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“Life or death”: Weather-watchers warn against Elon Musk’s Twitter changes - Climate Change News - Science (Apr 14, 2023) |
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Apr 14, 2023 · Elon Musk is charging for automated tweets, making it harder for authorities to warn of extreme weather events
Elon Musk bought Twitter last year (Photo credit: Daniel Oberhaus)
Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter will hinder the US government’s ability to warn citizens about extreme weather, the US National Weather Service (NWS) said.
Twitter recently announced it would limit the number of automated tweets that non-paying users can post to 50 in a 24-hour period. To post more will cost each account $100 a month from April 29.
A spokesperson for the NWS said that, since 2014, it has auto-posted the latest warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Governments battle over carbon removal and renewables in IPCC report - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 23, 2023) |
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Mar 23, 2023 · While the Saudis pushed carbon capture and storage technology, Europeans fought for wind and solar to be talked up in the report.
Negotiators from Saud Arabia and the US huddle with IPCC staff (Photo credit: IISD/ENB Anastasia Rodopoulou)
Governments fought over how their favoured green technologies are described in the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s scientists last week.
As governments met in Switzerland to approve the report, a group led by Saudi Arabia pushed for an emphasis on sucking carbon out of the atmosphere through carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
But a group of ... | By Isabella Kaminski Read more ...
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Nations fight to be called climate vulnerable in IPCC report - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 22, 2023) |
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Mar 22, 2023 · Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies
Two tropical cyclones recently devastated Vanuatu in the space of just a week (photo: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
Government negotiators fought bitterly last week over which groups and regions are defined as particularly vulnerable to climate change in the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Representatives of countries from an array of different regions, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and small island states, pushed to be singled out as particularly ... | By Isabella Kaminski Read more ...
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The IPCC’s climate scientists have done their job – now we must do ours - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 21, 2023) |
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Mar 21, 2023 · Comment: As citizens, we must educate and inspire our peers to act on climate change through positive and empowering campaigns
Today’s report from the IPCC’s climate scientists is attracting headlines for issuing what’s been called a 'final warning’ on action on climate change and a “clarion call” to massively fast-track climate efforts across every timeframe and country. Buried within it is some crucial guidance for what this means in practice.
The report states that “attention to equity and broad and meaningful participation” can build “social trust” and so “deepen and widen support for transformative changes.”
To put that in non-IPCC language; in ... | By Robin Webster Read more ...
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IPCC highlights rich nations’ failure to help developing world adapt to climate change - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 20, 2023) |
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Mar 20, 2023 · Scientists say funding needs to increase ‘many-fold’ in order to reach climate goals and protect communities disproportionately affected by global warming
A flooded building in the muddy waters of the Mekong river in Laos. Photo credit: Basile Morin
Vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by global warming are being given 'insufficient’ funds to help adapt to extreme climate impacts, the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says.
“Current global financial flows for adaptation are insufficient for, and constrain implementation of, adaptation options, especially in developing countries”, the ... | By Matteo Civillini Read more ...
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Chinese coal boom a ‘direct threat’ to 1.5C goal, analysts warn - Climate Change News - Science (Mar 14, 2023) |
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Mar 14, 2023 · Energy security fears prompted Beijing to rapidly accelerate coal power plans last year, raising concerns about the country’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions
A power plant in Tianjin, China: Photo: Shubert Cienca/Flickr
A boom in China’s coal power generation is derailing global efforts to limit global heating to 1.5C, analysts have warned.
Concerns were raised because Beijing rapidly accelerated plans for new coal power plants in the second half of last year in a bid to increase its energy security.
According to a report by think-tank E3G, published today, China’s coal project pipeline grew by nearly 50% in the last six months of 2022 taking the ... | By Matteo Civillini and Alok Gupta Read more ...
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Study: IPCC asks emerging countries to drop coal faster than rich nations did - Climate Change News - Science (Feb 15, 2023) |
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Feb 15, 2023 · A new study has found that most energy transition models ask nations like China, India and South Africa to cut coal use twice as fast as developed countries ever did.
Workers at the Jharia coal mine in India (Photo credit: Greenpeace/Peter Caton)
The scientists who plan out how to limit global warming to 1.5C have asked coal-reliant countries to phase out the fuel faster than is realistic, a new study says.
The study published in the journal Nature found that a typical 1.5C energy transition model expects nations like China, India and South Africa to get off coal faster than any country has ever got off any energy source before.
But these models ask for much ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Lula revives $1 billion Amazon Fund and environmental protections - Climate Change News - Science (Jan 04, 2023) |
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Jan 04, 2023 · On his first day in office as Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva signed a package of seven executive orders to protect the environment
During his inauguration, Lula da Silva mentioned climate action in his first speech as president. (Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/Lula da Silva Oficial)
In his first day in office, Brazil’s new president, Lula da Silva, signed a package of seven executive orders aimed at controlling deforestation in the Amazon and re-building the country’s environmental institutions.
As part of the package, Brazil’s new leader reinstated the Amazon Fund, a $1.2 billion fund to protect of the world’s largest rainforest, after a three-year period of ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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Breakthrough for nature protection – Climate Weekly - Climate Change News - Science (Dec 21, 2022) |
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Dec 21, 2022 · Chinese environment minister Huang Runqiu smiles after agreeing the Montreal-Kunming agreement (Photo: UN biodiversity/Flickr)
Before the Montreal nature talks, the head of the world’s most prominent nature fund told Climate Home they would either be a Copenhagen-style failure or a Paris-style success.
As delegates trudged through the snow, it looked like Copenhagen for most of the two weeks. World leaders weren’t invited and on Tuesday night, more than 60 negotiators from developing countries stormed out of finance talks. Ministers arrived on Thursday with a mountain to climb.
But climb it they did! In the early hours of Monday morning, China’s ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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India’s sugarcane farmers struggle to cope with droughts and floods - Climate Change News - Science (Dec 16, 2022) |
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Dec 16, 2022 · In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt
A farmer plants sugarcane in Sangli district, Maharashtra
“I won’t ever recover what I invested,” said 67-year-old Kalua Mehmood, a sugarcane farmer in Shahabpur, a village in western Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. Due to scarce rainfall, his sugarcane farm will deliver a poor harvest this year.
The rainfall during the monsoon season, between June and September, was erratic this year, he told Climate Home News. 10 years ago, farmers could count on steady rainfall. “But this year I have already irrigated my crop 10 times with a ... | By Arvind Shukla, Mayank Aggarwal, Meenal Upreti and Gurman Bhatia Read more ...
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Destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado savanna soars for third year in a row - Climate Change News - Science (Dec 15, 2022) |
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Dec 15, 2022 · Brazil’s outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro has presided over four years of destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado grasslands
An aerial view shows deforestation near a forest on the border between Amazonia and Cerrado in Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso state, Brazil in 2021 (REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli)
Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna rose for the third year in a row, government data showed on Wednesday, destroying a vital habitat for threatened species and releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases that drive climate change.
Destruction of native vegetation rose by a quarter to 10,689 square kilometers (4,127 square miles) – an area ... | By Reuters and Joe Lo Read more ...
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UN nature pact nears its ‘Copenhagen or Paris’ moment - Climate Change News - Science (Nov 22, 2022) |
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Nov 22, 2022 · Cop15 biodiversity negotiations in Montreal next month will determine how the world halts and reverses nature loss
The endangered Banggai cardinalfish (Pic: Stavros Markopoulos/Flickr)
Montreal, Canada will hold a “once-in-a-generation” summit in December to finalise a global deal to protect nature.
After a two-year delay and a change of location, the UN biodiversity summit aims to halt nature loss by 2030 and restore ecosystems. It could either be a success like the signing of the Paris Agreement or a dramatic failure like the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen.
“Anything can happen. It would be terrible if we had a 'Copenhagen’ because we would lose a ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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Odd couple bungle nature talks – Climate Weekly - Climate Change News - Science (Oct 07, 2022) |
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Oct 07, 2022 · Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau meets China's president Xi Jinping (Photo: Wikicommons)
Remember when you had to do a school project with some kid you didn’t like? Never got great marks, did you?
Well unfortunately, the same holds true when the kids are Chinese president Xi Jinping and Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and the project is saving the world’s wildlife and the forests and carbon that go with it.
After four years of talks, the CBD nature summit is just two months away. But the UN’s biodiversity chief told Climate Home this week that “as the plans go, we may not have the heads of state and ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Researchers push to make polluters put carbon back in the ground - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 30, 2022) |
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Sep 30, 2022 · A team from Oxford University is trying to persuade governments to impose carbon capture and storage requirements on fossil fuel producers
The Petra Nova carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal plant in Texas, US, shut down in 2020 as the economics did not add up (Photo: Petra Nova)
A group of researchers is ramping up a campaign to make polluters put carbon back in the ground.
As oil and gas companies rake in record profits, a team from Oxford University in the UK is making the case governments should force them to capture and store a share of the emissions from burning their products.
Myles Allen, director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative, has been ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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Five burning climate issues for the 2022 UN general assembly - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 16, 2022) |
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Sep 16, 2022 · Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding and soaring energy bills are shaping the UN agenda – for those leaders who show up
The plenary hall at the UN headquarters in New York (Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown/Flickr)
More than 150 world leaders are due to gather in New York next week for the UN general assembly.
The annual event is taking place on a backdrop of growing uncertainty, divisions and an erosion of momentum for climate action.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has deepened geopolitical tensions, sent energy and food prices soaring, and compounded inequalities.
On the heels of a pandemic, global inflation is increasing the debt burden on vulnerable ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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African leaders blast European no-shows at climate adaptation summit - Climate Change News - Science (Sep 06, 2022) |
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Sep 06, 2022 · Presidents of Senegal, DRC and Ghana travelled to Rotterdam to talk about adapting to climate change. Only one European leader was there to meet them
The presidents of Senegal (left) and the DRC (centre) sit alongside Norway's international development minister (right) (Photo: Global Center on Adaptation)
African leaders have criticised their European counterparts for missing a summit in Rotterdam on how Africa can adapt to climate change.
While three African presidents flew to the Netherlands for the Africa Adaptation Summit on Monday, only Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte was there to meet with them.
Rich countries have unmet promises to financially support ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 26, 2022) |
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Aug 26, 2022 · In China, Lake Poyang is just a quarter of its normal size, while in Germany, the Rhine is running at 45% of its average levels for August
Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, dry after strongest recorded drought (Photo: Planet)
China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake, typically covers more than 3,500 square kilometres and is a major water source for rice crops in Northwest China. But today, after a month of extreme drought, it’s only about a quarter of its size and has farmers digging for water.
The shrinking water levels can even be seen from space. An analysis of satellite imagery by Climate Home News, with the support from the monitoring platform ... | By Sebastian Rodriguez Read more ...
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Pakistan struggles to rebuild after deadly flash floods - Climate Change News - Science (Aug 11, 2022) |
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Aug 11, 2022 · At least 550 people died as the wettest month in three decades washed away mud houses in rural Balochistan – and international aid is not forthcoming
A girl stands in a mud brick house in Quetta, Pakistan's 10th largest city which was badly hit by flash floods in July 2022 (Photo: Islamic Relief Pakistan)
Hit by devastating flash floods, Pakistan is struggling to rebuild due to foreign aid cuts and inadequate investment in adaptation.
Abnormally heavy monsoon rains led to flash floods in July which killed at least 550 people across Pakistan, with rural communities in the impoverished southwestern province Balochistan hardest hit. At least 77 children have ... | By Isabelle Gerretsen Read more ...
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Between a wolf and its food: as one deep sea miner flops, others eye the prize - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 22, 2022) |
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Jul 22, 2022 · The Metals Company is running out of money, but the regulator is still fast-tracking rules to mine the ocean while other prospectors wait in the wings
A species of jelly pictured during a 2018 exploration of the north wall of Keller Canyon, off the coast of North Carolina (Photo: NOAA Ocean Exploration/Flickr)
“This is like a battery in a rock,” Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company, formerly known as Deep Green, told an investment journalist during a mining conference in Cape Town in 2019.
In his right hand, he held up to the camera a black mineral concretion about the size of a potato, known as a polymetallic nodule.
Found on the deep sea floor, these ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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Heat and humidity gets dangerous to health sooner than most people realise - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 13, 2022) |
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Jul 13, 2022 · Lab tests show that the human body’s core temperature starts to rise at lower wet bulb temperatures than the theoretical safety limit
At a certain threshold, sweat stops working to cool the body down (Pic: Paul Keller/Flickr)
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One question a lot of people are asking is: “When will it get too hot for normal daily activity as we know it, even for young, healthy adults?”
The answer goes beyond the temperature you see on the thermometer. It’s also about humidity. Our research shows the combination of the two can get dangerous faster ... | By W Larry Kenny, Daniel Vecellio, Rachel Cottle and S Tony Wolf Read more ...
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Hali Hewa episode 2: Climate science - Climate Change News - Science (Jul 05, 2022) |
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Jul 05, 2022 · Youba Sokona, a distinguished climate scientist from Mali, talks about his journey and what the science says about Africa’s needs
In episode two of the Hali Hewa podcast, Abigael Kima interviews Malian climate scientist Youba Sokona.
Professor Youba Sokona, from Mali, is vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is the United Nations body tasked with assessing the latest science related to climate change. Regular scientific assessments from the IPCC play a critical role in shaping the international communities’ response to the climate crisis.
In this episode, Sokona takes us through his journey at the IPCC and explains what ... | By CHN Staff Read more ...
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It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 21, 2022) |
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Jun 21, 2022 · Comment: As talks on a global deal to protect nature begin in Nairobi, Kenya, countries need to create a new conservation designation for Indigenous Peoples’ land
Women in the remote village of Lokolama in the DR Congo rainforest welcome an international research team working to identify the presence of tropical petalands in the area in 2017 (Photo: Kevin McElvaney / Greenpeace)
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts to nature collapsing.
Some rainforests are already emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, further destabilising the global climate. At current trends, all ... | By Irene Wabiwa Betoko Read more ...
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Nature restoration and carbon removal are not the same. Here’s why it matters - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 13, 2022) |
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Jun 13, 2022 · Planting trees is a key pillar in the fight against climate change but it’s no substitute for permanently removing carbon dioxide from the air
Mangrove restoration in the Philippines (Pic: DAI/Flickr)
By 6 carbon removal and forest experts
Humanity has increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, making cement, deforesting land, and degrading soils.
To stop global warming, the world needs to decrease the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by radically reducing CO2 emissions and eventually reaching net zero. Reaching net zero will require a significant amount of carbon removal that needs to be aligned with ... Read more ...
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German minister backs Middle East ‘peace through water’ plan - Climate Change News - Science (Jun 10, 2022) |
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Jun 10, 2022 · The proposals aim to harness solar power to bring drinking water to Palestinian territories but Israel’s support is needed
A Palestinian woman with a water cistern funded by the European Union (Photo: European Union/Flickr)
Germany’s economy and climate minister has talked up a plan to bring peace to the Middle East through solar panels and drinking water.
After a visit to the Jordan river which divides Palestine’s West Bank region from Jordan, Robert Habeck posted on Instagram about his support for the EcoPeace NGO and its proposed “Green Blue Deal for the Middle East”.
In particular, he supported the plan by an Emirati company ... | By Joe Lo Read more ...
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Former presidents of Mexico, Niger, Kiribati join commission to tackle overshoot risks - Climate Change News - Science (May 17, 2022) |
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May 17, 2022 · The Climate Overshoot Commission will explore controversial options to cope with global heating in excess of the 2C Paris limit
Anote Tong, former president of the Republic of Kiribati, is one of 16 commissioners to join the group (Photo: Benjamin Westhoff/German Development Institute/Flickr)
Three former presidents, one former prime minister and six former ministers are among 16 leaders tasked with exploring options for reducing the risks of overshooting global temperature goals.
The Climate Overshoot Commission launched on Tuesday with a majority of members from developing countries.
It will address sensitive questions around the ethics and feasibility of ... | By Chloé Farand Read more ...
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The heat in Delhi is unbearable. This is what the climate crisis feels like - Climate Change News - Science (Apr 29, 2022) |
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Apr 29, 2022 · A short walk in the afternoon is exhausting. Heatwaves will keep getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels
Milk distribution in Maharashtra, India (Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan/Climate Visuals for Ashden)
For about an hour I had no energy. I crashed on my bed. I was sweating profusely and extremely irritable, in no mood to talk to anyone.
No, I had not done any high-intensity training or run a marathon. I had simply left my home in Delhi around 3pm to drop my six-year-old son at a friend’s house, less than two kilometers away.
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