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UN chief slams 'suicidal' failure to combat global warming

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

"The state of the planet is broken. Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal," the UN chief said in a speech at Columbia University in New York City. ...

Climate change biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed in a new report that shifts due to the changing climate now imperil a full third of the 252 U...

New Zealand's Ardern declares 'climate emergency'

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

Ardern said the science on climate change was clear and New Zealand had to acknowledge the threat. The centre-left leader said the challenges posed by global wa...

2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded: UN

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are set to make up all six of the hottest years since modern records began in 1850, the UN's World Meteorological Organization...

Worst-case emissions projections are already off-track

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

But new research from the University of Colorado Boulder finds that these high-emissions scenarios, used as baseline projections in the UN's Intergovernmental P...

Venus figurines offered a model for surviving climate change, new theory says

Dec 01, 2020 (UPI)

Instead, researchers claim the large-bodied figurines, carved some 30,000 years ago, were models for surviving Europe's increasingly frigid winters. Researchers...

European rights court OKs climate lawsuit against 33 nations

Nov 30, 2020 (AFP)

It is the first such lawsuit heard by the European Court of Human Rights, whose rulings must in theory be applied by all Council of Europe members. The six Port...

EU ombudsman criticises BlackRock contract

Nov 25, 2020 (AFP)

Emily O'Reilly, whose role is to be an ethics watchdog over the Commission, criticised current rules on attributing contracts, saying they were "not robust and ...

Dimming Sun's rays could ease climate impacts in Africa

Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)

This form of solar radiation management would slash the risk of another "Day Zero" drought in Cape Town, South Africa -- a city of 3.7 million which ran out of ...

Incoming US envoy Kerry vows to seek greater climate goals

Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped the former secretary of state for the new position of presidential envoy on climate change, a sign of the importance the Un...

John Kerry, who signed Paris accord for US, is Biden's climate envoy

Nov 24, 2020 (AFP)

Now, he is set to be President-elect Joe Biden's climate envoy, in a clear sign of the upcoming administration's renewed commitment to fighting climate change. ...

Greenhouse gas levels at new high, despite Covid-19 measures

Nov 23, 2020 (AFP)

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) chief Petteri Taalas meanwhile welcomed several countries' vows to focus on climate-friendly technologies as they seek t...

Trump defends withdrawal from 'unfair' Paris climate accord

Nov 22, 2020 (AFP)

The United States formally left the 2015 Paris accord earlier this month, becoming the first country to ever withdraw from an international climate change pact....

Top court gives France three months to show climate efforts

Nov 19, 2020 (AFP)

The French government, which brokered the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, was hauled before the Council of State by Grande-Synthe, a low-lying ...

Engineering a way out of climate change with genetically modified organisms

Nov 17, 2020 (SPX)

The CO2 that we've released, and are continuing to release into the atmosphere, remains there indefinitely. Climate change will thus continue to worsen unless a...

Global warming to continue no matter what we do: study

Nov 12, 2020 (AFP)

Natural drivers of global warming -- more heat-trapping clouds, thawing permafrost, and shrinking sea ice -- already set in motion by carbon pollution will take...

Bank of England says to launch climate change tests

Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)

Bailey, speaking at a virtual summit on green finance, also defended the British central bank's decision to try to help all virus-hit companies, including those...

Under-pressure Australia 'welcomes' Biden climate pledge

Nov 09, 2020 (AFP)

Biden's vow to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 leaves Australia as one of the few advanced countries still lacking such a target. The sparsely populated contin...

Biden's victory a mighty relief in battle to save the planet

Nov 08, 2020 (AFP)

Activists and scientists feared further climate change destruction from another four years of Trump in denial in the White House. His defeat totally changes the...

UK hopes climate change can warm frosty Biden ties

Nov 08, 2020 (AFP)

"The United States is our closest and most important ally. And that's been the case under president after president, prime minister after prime minister," Johns...