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Spotty report card on climate for top asset managers
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
The annual assessment from London-based think tank InfluenceMap graded investment giants across three criteria: support for climate-related shareholder resoluti...
Global population hit by extreme drought set to double
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
Even under a scenario of moderate decline in greenhouse gas emissions, land area scorched by extreme to exceptional drought conditions increases from three to s...
UN seeks $35 million in emergency aid for Madagascar
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
"Some 1.35 million people are projected to be food insecure -- 35 percent of the region's population," the WFP said in a statement. "With severe malnutrition ra...
One Planet Summit: no climate fix without biodiversity
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
The French-led One Planet Summit, backed by the United Nations and the World Bank, saw more than 50 nations support a plan to create protected areas covering 30...
Omanis revive memory of village swallowed by desert
Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)
Salem al-Arimi, originally from the area, looked out nostalgically over the expanse. According to local elders, "all the houses in the village were invaded by t...
Norway unveils new climate measures
Jan 08, 2021 (AFP)
Norway, the biggest producer of oil in Western Europe, has said it aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 55 percent by 2030. By 2050, the goal is...
Global warming to keep driving winds poleward, deep sea dust suggests
Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)
Scientists on Wednesday published their findings in the journal Nature. The westerlies, sometimes called the anti-trades, are a series of prevailing winds blowi...
Drought of the century in the Middle Ages - with parallels to climate change today?
Jan 06, 2021 (SPX)
In the journal Climate of the Past, researchers from the Leibniz Institutes for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and Tropospheric Research (TROP...
Human use has increased grasslands' contribution to climate change
Jan 05, 2021 (UPI)
In a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers traced the influence of grasslands on the planet's climate. Their analysis r...
GAO: Defense Dept. needs to better track climate change protections
Dec 23, 2020 (UPI)
The 92-page report by the General Accountability Office noted that although the Pentagon maintains records of where 2020 funding was applied, it "doesn't curren...
Climate change caused the demise of Central Asia's river civilizations, not Genghis Khan
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and the major rivers flowing through the region were once home to advanced river civilizations which used floodwater irrigati...
Error correction means California's future wetter winters may never come
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
Earth scientist Lu Dong, who led the study alongside atmospheric scientist Ruby Leung, presented her findings at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting o...
Case studies show climate variation linked to rise and fall of medieval nomadic empires
Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)
"Climate data actually can tell us quite a lot about the history of nomadic empires," said Nicola Di Cosmo, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and ...
Fed joins world central banks fighting climate change
Dec 15, 2020 (AFP)
The Fed has been working for a year with the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), but now has joined the Bank of E...
Macron plans referendum to add climate clause to constitution
Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)
Speaking to members of a Citizen's Convention on Climate, Macron said that the referendum would propose adding a clause to the first article of the constitution...
World urged to move on 'climate emergency' after pandemic
Dec 12, 2020 (AFP)
Fast-growing China, the world's biggest emitter, outlined limited new ambitions in green energy at a virtual "Climate Ambition Summit" addressed by more than 70...
Kerry says US will need to regain 'credibility' in climate talks
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
President-elect Joe Biden named the former secretary of state to the new envoy role with a seat on the National Security Council, in a sign of the importance th...
Five years on, summit aims to breathe life into Paris deal
Dec 08, 2020 (AFP)
Yet carbon pollution has continued its steady rise as temperature records tumble with increasing regularity. Following a year of raging wildfires and record meg...
Since Paris deal, climate catastrophes mount
Dec 08, 2020 (AFP)
"The world has changed since Paris. It has changed for the worst," said Saleemul Huq, from the International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) ...
Swift, sharp emission cuts could slow warming 'within 20 years'
Dec 07, 2020 (AFP)
Most nations have signed up to the landmark Paris agreement goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial leve...
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