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11K scientists declare climate emergency in new paper
Nov 05, 2019 (UPI)
The climate scientists responsible for the declaration, published Tuesday in the journal BioScience, say experts have been sounding the alarm for decades. "Yet ...
Dismay as US formally starts pullout from Paris climate accord
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth month in a r...
US formally starts withdrawal from Paris climate accord
Nov 05, 2019 (AFP)
President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth month in the...
European asset managers care more about climate change: study
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
ShareAction, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that campaigns for responsible and sustainable finance, examined votes cast by investors in 57 of the world's...
The US remains in the Paris accord, for now
Nov 02, 2019 (AFP)
But although his administration has largely ignored the landmark agreement since taking power, American officials will continue to play a role in negotiating te...
Australia PM vows to outlaw 'apocalyptic' climate activism
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
Prime minister Scott Morrison told a peak mining body that his conservative government was seeking ways to legislate against activists engaged in "secondary boy...
Spain steps in to host COP25 climate summit as Greta asks for a lift
Nov 01, 2019 (AFP)
Some 25,000 delegates had been expected in Chile for COP 25, including teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. "We are pleased to announce the COP Bureau has a...
Two million-year-old ice provides snapshot of Earth's greenhouse gas history
Oct 31, 2019 (SPX)
In a paper published in Nature, a group of scientists used air trapped in the bubbles in ice as old as 2 million years to measure levels of the greenhouse gases...
Berlin court rejects legal challenge to Merkel climate policy
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
After the government admitted it would fail to meet its own and EU greenhouse gas reduction goals for 2020, the would-be plaintiffs -- farmers backed by environ...
Bundesbank boss rejects climate objectives for ECB
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
"I see very critically calls for a green monetary policy," Bundesbank head Weidmann told a Frankfurt conference. Preferentially targeting "green" bonds for ECB ...
Two million Zambians face food insecurity in regional drought
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
Southern Africa is grappling with one of the worst droughts in decades after months of erratic rainfall and record-high temperatures. Zambia Red Cross warned th...
Donors pledge nearly $10 billion for UN climate fund
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
"I am very happy to announce that we have closed this conference with an envelope of $9.8 billion," Odile Renaud-Basso, director of the French Treasury, told jo...
Climate change threatens biodiversity inside Earth's conservation areas
Oct 22, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists at the University of Bayreuth use ten different climate models to predict the effects of climate change on the planet's 245,844 protected areas curre...
Transform land use to hit 1.5C target: experts
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
They said that countries such as Brazil, China and Indonesia had immense potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions if their governments committed to ending de...
Dozens of elephants die in Zimbabwe drought
Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)
More than five million rural Zimbabweans -- nearly a third of the population -- are at risk of food shortages before the next harvest in 2020, the United Nation...
Climate activists vow change of tack after London Tube mayhem
Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)
The Extinction Rebellion pressure group has been staging 10 days of colourful but disruptive action across London and other global cities to draw attention to c...
Using space systems for climate control
Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)
Thus, global warming will further increase. If we could control the amount of energy from the Sun, our climate could be controlled. This, in combination with in...
Mediterranean basin badly hit by climate change: study
Oct 10, 2019 (AFP)
"We are one of the regions most impacted by climate change worldwide," said Nasser Kamel, the secretary general of the Mediterranean Union, presenting the study...
Double counting threatens integrity of Paris agreement
Oct 10, 2019 (AFP)
To be sure, the biggest issue remains national targets that are not sufficient to meet the goals of the landmark 2015 agreement signed by almost 200 countries -...
German govt presses on with criticised climate law
Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)
"For the first time, Germany's climate goals are becoming legally binding," environment minister Svenja Schulze said in a statement. "Germany missing its climat...
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