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French court gives govt 9 months to boost climate action
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The Council of State said France was currently unlikely to meet its goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels. Ruling on a case...
Climate lawsuit litigants are relying on dated science, study finds
Jun 28, 2021 (UPI)
The new research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, highlights the disconnect between progress in the field of climate science and the legal, econ...
German climate, insect protection laws cross finish line
Jun 25, 2021 (AFP)
In its final session before the summer recess, the upper house of parliament signed off on reforms to Germany's climate protection law to bring the nation's tar...
Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared: draft UN report
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas -- these and other devastating climate impacts a...
Leaked UN climate report a call to 'act'
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
The draft by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) lays out in relentless detail the potential dangers ahead for species, ecosystems and humanity...
UN climate talks wrap up after meagre progress
Jun 17, 2021 (AFP)
The discussions, which were all informal, saw "good progress made" on a number of issues, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa told journalists by videoconference...
'No time to waste' warns Japan climate activist
Jun 16, 2021 (AFP)
"I'm hopeful, but we have no time to waste," said Hirata, the international director of Japan's Kiko Network NGO. "Our future will be gone if we don't act now,"...
Climate activists file lawsuit against French PM, ministers
Jun 16, 2021 (AFP)
Pierre Larrouturou, a member of the European Parliament, and activists Cyril Dion and Camille Etienne filed the complaint against Jean Castex and the four minis...
Finance not discussed at climate talks: UN chief
Jun 16, 2021 (AFP)
The discussions -- the first under the UN's watch since December 2019 -- were designed to bring countries closer together on key issues left over from previous ...
Methane-eating microbes in the ocean help moderate Earth's temperature
Jun 14, 2021 (UPI)
Carbon dioxide is the most abundant and famous greenhouse gas, but methane is plentiful and its warming effect is more than 30 times more powerful. Most methane...
World 'way off track' on climate: UK business lobby
Jun 14, 2021 (AFP)
Tony Danker, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, also urged the UK government to speed up greener housing, energy and transport measures ...
UK's G7 gives a taste of upcoming climate conference
Jun 12, 2021 (AFP)
The climate emergency, with the Covid-19 pandemic, is high on the agenda at the summit for wealthy nations in bucolic Cornwall in southwest England this weekend...
Across US West, drought arriving dangerously early
Jun 12, 2021 (AFP)
Eighty-eight percent of the West was in a state of drought this week, including the entire states of California, Oregon, Utah and Nevada, according to official ...
Historic drought threatens Brazil's economy
Jun 09, 2021 (AFP)
Months of sparse rain have shrunk rivers, left their banks cracked and parched, and reduced normally sprawling reservoirs to webs of puddles across Brazil's sou...
Drought-hit California scales up plan to truck salmon to ocean
Jun 06, 2021 (AFP)
The tasty migratory fish are typically born in rivers, swim to the ocean where they reach maturity and can remain for several years, before returning to their n...
In-person UN summit 'key to addressing climate concerns'
Jun 04, 2021 (AFP)
The 26th edition of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties -- COP26 -- marks the biggest climate summit since the 2015 Paris negotiation. COP26 will in...
New OECD chief: Aussie powerbroker facing climate questions
Jun 01, 2021 (AFP)
Australia's longest-serving finance minister, 50-year-old Mathias Cormann was appointed head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Mar...
US, EU leaders call for more action at climate summit
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
Climate change is a major threat to global growth, with perils ranging from disease outbreaks and declines in crop yields. But international negotiations on how...
A fiery past sheds new light on the future of global climate change
May 31, 2021 (SPX)
"Up till now, the magnitude of past fire activity, and thus the amount of smoke in the preindustrial atmosphere, has not been well characterized," said Pengfei ...
Climate talks resume online as pressure to act grows
May 31, 2021 (AFP)
The talks, nominally hosted by the United Nations climate change programme in the German city of Bonn, will all be online and informal, meaning that no decision...
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