The Guardian - 1 Jan 2025 06:00

Virginijus Sinkevičius, a former environment commissioner, criticises bloc's decision to delay deforestation law A former EU environment commissioner has warned against backsliding on the
... protection of nature and the battle against the climate crisis after the bloc decided to delay its landmark deforestation law. Virginijus Sinkevičius, the Lithuanian MEP and a vice-president of the European parliament's Green group, said he disagreed with the decision to amend the deforestation law in order to give companies a year of extra time to ensure their products are not implicated in the felling of trees. 
Fraught debate revealed the divide between rich and poor as the UN conference sealed a climate finance deal.
The Guardian - 22 Nov 2024 14:35

Draft text criticised as poor nations want more of the finance to come directly from developed countries Cop29 climate summit - live updates Developing countries have reacted angrily to an offer of
... $250bn in finance from the rich world - considerably less than they are demanding - to help them tackle the climate crisis. The offer was contained in the draft text of an agreement published on Friday afternoon at the Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, where talks are likely to carry on past a 6pm deadline. 
For decades, we've been trying to slow global warming and control climate change. Unfortunately, none of those attempts appear to be paying off, as the … The post UN says we’re failing
... miserably at our attempts to control climate change appeared first on BGR.Fox News - 23 May 2024 00:25

The UN's World Food Programme is calling on donors for help as extreme weather related to the El Niño phenomenon is causing a hunger surge in countries including Afghanistan and Zambia.
Daily Mail - 19 Mar 2024 02:58

Lady Chief Justice Carr ruled protesters could not say they honestly believed a property owner would consent to criminal damage if they were fully aware of its 'circumstances'.
The Guardian - 11 Mar 2024 01:01

Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says Europe is not prepared for the rapidly growing climate risks it faces, the European
... Environment Agency (EEA) has said in its first risk assessment. From wildfires burning down homes to violent weather straining public finances, the report says more action is needed to address half of the 36 significant climate risks with potentially severe consequences that it identifies for Europe. Five more risks need urgent action, the report says. Daily Mail - 9 Jan 2024 14:00

Last year smashed a heat record set eight years ago, experts from the EU's Copernicus climate change programme reveal.
ABC News - 21 Dec 2023 06:21

A state appeals court in Oregon has decided that the rules for a program designed to limit and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel companies are invalid

A landmark agreement sees the biggest global push yet away from gas, coal and oil toward a future powered by renewable energy.
The Guardian - 9 Dec 2023 05:56

NSW authorities urge people to avoid being outdoors during the hottest weather of the day, check on the elderly and keep pets safe from heat. Follow live Get our morning and afternoon news emails,
... free app or daily news podcast 'Climate change a threat to people's health as well as to our environment,' Albanese says amid heatwave Speaking at a press conference in Sydney, prime minister Anthony Albanese said the current heatwave is "a reminder that there just might be something in this climate change stuff". We have experienced 2023 as the hottest year on record. We continue to break these records, and that's why my government's determined to act on climate change. Today, with the high heat levels, I do say that it's a time to ensure that we look after each other and stay safe. We need to...The Guardian - 6 Dec 2023 02:10

Humanity faces 'devastating domino effects' including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the
... planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned. Five important natural thresholds already risk being crossed, according to the Global Tipping Points report, and three more may be reached in the 2030s if the world heats 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial temperatures. The New York Times - 4 Dec 2023 16:33

Sultan Al Jaber, responsible for leading the world away from fossil fuels, said there was "no science" to support a phaseout of oil and gas.
Business Insider - 1 Dec 2023 15:06

The leaders of the world's biggest polluting countries have lost a chance to inject momentum into the talks.
The Guardian - 1 Dec 2023 15:00

Climate-related disasters disproportionately affect women and girls as reproductive services crumble and gender-based violence rises The climate crisis threatens the chances of gender equality being
... achieved in the countries most vulnerable to global heating, the UN has said. As Cop28 opens in Dubai, UNFPA, the UN's reproductive and maternal health agency, released data showing that the 14 countries most at risk from the effects of the climate crisis are also those where women and girls are more likely to die in childbirth, marry early, experience gender-based violence or be displaced by disaster. The Guardian - 20 Nov 2023 16:00

'We must start setting records on cutting emissions,' UN boss says after temperature records obliterated in 2023 The world is on track for a "hellish" 3C of global heating, the UN has warned before
... the crucial Cop28 climate summit that begins next week in the United Arab Emirates. The report found that today's carbon-cutting policies are so inadequate that 3C of heating would be reached this century. The New York Times - 20 Nov 2023 16:00

There's a lot more work to do to keep global temperatures at relatively safe levels, according to a U.N. report issued in advance of global climate talks.
Fox News - 8 Nov 2023 02:58

Chilean decision to shut down a Patagonian glacier has led to an angry response from local excursion guides and tourists, and a debate over environmental issues and safety concerns.
The Guardian - 5 Oct 2023 04:00

The carbon emissions driving the climate crisis and rapid arrival of an El Niño event are to blame, researchers say Global temperatures soared to a new record in September by a huge margin,
... stunning scientists and leading one to describe it as "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas". The hottest September on record follows the hottest August and hottest July, with the latter being the hottest month ever recorded. The high temperatures have driven heatwaves and wildfires across the world. The New York Times - 18 Sep 2023 01:34

The first-in-the-nation law will compel major companies to publicly disclose their carbon dioxide emissions and could have national repercussions.
The New York Times - 8 Sep 2023 16:31

The global assessment, two years in the making, is the first official gauge of progress under the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The Guardian - 8 Sep 2023 16:23

Governments failing to cut emissions fast enough to meet Paris agreement goals and avoid disaster, major stocktake report says Analysis: A chasm laid bare Governments around the world are failing to
... cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the Paris agreement and to stave off climate disaster, a major new report by the UN has found. Meeting the goals will require "phasing out all unabated fossil fuels", the report says, in an acknowledgement that some oil-producing countries may find hard to take. The need to phase out fossil fuels has not been explicitly adopted by the UN before, under successive rounds of climate talks, and language over "phasing out" or "phasing down" fossil fuels has sparked controversy at the annual UN climate talks. The Guardian - 8 Sep 2023 02:55

City sets hourly rainfall record as emergency services carry out rescues and people told to stay in a safe place Hong Kong reported 158.1mm of rainfall in the space of an hour on Thursday night, the
... highest since records began in 1884, causing widespread flooding and disrupting road and rail traffic. The record rain, reported in the hour up to midnight on Thursday, comes just days after the city dodged major damage from a super typhoon. ABC News - 5 Sep 2023 16:52

Dozens of world leaders are gathered in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, as the Africa Climate Summit 2023 -- the continent's first-ever climate summit -- gets underway.
The Guardian - 28 Aug 2023 16:00

The recent heatwaves in Arizona, stoked by the climate crisis, have led to a spike in contact burns from asphalt almost as hot as boiling water On a sunny day in mid-May, Bobby Hunt fell asleep by the
... side of a gas station in Phoenix. Hunt says he was waiting for a friend to pick him up. "Next thing I know, I wake up in the hospital."