Climate nears point of no return as land, sea temperatures break records – say climate experts
SingaporeReuters The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year’s annual climate talks in November, […]
New Zealand considers visa for climate ‘refugees’ from Pacific islands
Thomson Reuters Foundation Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand. PICTURE: Dan Freeman/Unsplash New Zealand is proposing a special refugee visa for Pacific Islanders who are forced to migrate because of rising sea levels, the nation’s new climate change minister said, as world leaders wrap up United Nations climate talks in Germany. In the […]
Amid concerns over rising global temperatures, Tuvalu church leader says even two per cent rise will destroy his culture
Amid concerns that the planet is on track for global temperatures to increase by at least three degrees Celsius, a key church leader from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, speaking at the climate change talks currently underway in Bonn, has said that even a two degree increase will mean the “disappearance of our islands”. […]
Haiti tops index of nations worst-hit by extreme weather in 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation Haiti, which was hit last year by its strongest hurricane in 50 years, has been ranked the country worst-affected by extreme weather in 2016, in an index published on Thursday. Zimbabwe, which suffered severe drought followed by floods, came second. Fiji, recovering from the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the island […]