Brazil will need to resettle those hit by climate disasters, minister says
Davos, Switzerland Reuters Brazil will need to relocate citizens in areas that have been hit repeatedly by storms and other disasters supercharged by climate change, the country’s Environment Minister Marina Silva told Reuters in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday. Climate change globally is expected to make certain areas unlivable and drive the migration of hundreds of […]
COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters The UN climate summit clinched an early victory Thursday, with delegates adopting a new fund to help poor nations cope with costly climate disasters. COP28 President Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber said the decision sent a “positive signal of momentum to the world and to our work here in Dubai”. Attendees arrive for […]
Debt costs overshadow climate finance in small island states – report
London, UKReuters Small developing island states heavily exposed to the effects of climate change and often in critical debt situations spend at least 18 times more on debt servicing than they receive in climate finance, a report showed. The report by the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) said 37 island and coastal countries […]
Climate inaction – and ‘dramatic’ consequences – top global threat list
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Governments are struggling to adopt climate-smart policies as COVID-19 hits economic activity and forces them to focus instead on tackling surging social inequality, the World Economic Forum said on Tuesday. Failure to implement emissions-cutting pledges and the “dramatic consequences” in terms of devastating floods, storms and wildfires are now the world’s […]
From floods and fires to locusts, ‘climate breakdown’ cost rich and poor in 2020
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Disasters fuelled by weather and climate extremes brought “catastrophic results for millions” across rich and poor nations in 2020, causing thousands of deaths and tens of billions of dollars in losses, charity Christian Aid said on Monday. In a report, the aid agency identified 15 of the most destructive climate disasters of […]
Funding for climate disasters is “failing” those most vulnerable, says IFRC
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The number of disasters caused by extreme weather and climate-related events is surging, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a report on Tuesday, but funding is not getting to where it is needed most. Cases of floods, storms and heatwaves per decade have increased by nearly 35 […]
CLIMATE: POOREST PEOPLE GETTING WORLD’S SMALL CHANGE TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CRISIS
MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on a new Oxfam report…
Ten worst climate-linked disasters of 2018 caused $US85 billion in damage – Christian Aid
Thomson Reuters Foundation From floods to extreme heat, 10 of the worst climate-linked disasters in 2018 caused at least $US84.8 billion worth of damage, said a study released by the charity Christian Aid on Thursday. Extreme weather driven by climate change hit every populated continent this year, the British relief organisation said, warning urgent action […]