Heat or eat?: Winter protests loom as energy poverty sweeps Europe
JOANNA GILL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how spreading strikes and protests over energy-fuelled inflation is forcing politicians into a corner over climate goals…
Walk in the park – cities fight climate change with greenery
Thomson Reuters Foundation US cities and towns should ensure that every resident lives within 10 minutes’ walk of a park as part of their climate action strategies, an advocacy group for open spaces said. According to The Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco-based non-profit, 100 million US urbanites lack such access. Central Park, New […]
Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say
Thomson Reuters Foundation In just 30 years, cities around the world will face dramatically higher risks from extreme heat, coastal flooding, power blackouts and food and water shortages unless climate-changing emissions are curbed, urban researchers warned this week. Today, for instance, more than 200 million people in 350 cities face stifling heat where average daily […]