“Now or never”: Only severe emissions cuts will avoid climate extremes – UN report
Reuters Drastic cuts to fossil fuel use. Growing forests and eating less meat. These are just some of the actions needed in this decade to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures, a major report by the UN climate science agency said Monday. Despite climate change warnings issued by the Intergovernmental Panel […]
The Interview: Evangelical scientist Katharine Hayhoe finds hope in United Nations’ climate report
Following the release of the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, speaks to US-based climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe about faith, hope and science…
Essay: Mass starvation, extinctions, disasters: the new IPCC report’s grim predictions, and why adaptation efforts are falling behind
Three vice-chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – MARK HOWDEN, JOY PEREIRA, and ROBERTO SÁNCHEZ – look – in an article published on The Conversation – at the findings of the latest IPCC report…
“Delay means death” – UN climate report urges immediate, drastic action
Reuters Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday. Noting that nearly half the world’s population was already vulnerable to increasingly dangerous climate impacts, the report calls for drastic action on a […]
Explainer – As climate change wreaks havoc globally, IPCC report flags ways to adapt
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation From Madagascar, where hunger is surging after a recent storm destroyed drought-withered crops, to Brazil’s historic mountain town of Petropolis, hit by a deluge that has caused about 200 deaths, the impacts of wilder weather are being felt worldwide. Worse is to come, faster than expected, even if efforts to curb […]
UN climate change report sounds “code red for humanity”
Updated 12.30pm (AEST)Reuters Global warming is dangerously close to spiralling out of control, a UN climate panel said in a landmark report Monday, warning the world is already certain to face further climate disruptions for decades, if not centuries, to come. Humans are “unequivocally” to blame, the report from the scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel […]
Climate change set to drive more deadly heat in South Asia
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Deadly heatwaves in South Asia are likely to become more common in the future, with the region’s exposure to lethal heat stress potentially nearly tripling if global warming isn’t curbed, researchers said. But the threat could be halved if the world meets a goal set under the Paris Agreement on climate […]
Climate pledges for 2030 put world far off 1.5 degrees goal, UN warns
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Updated plans to reduce emissions, submitted so far by about 75 nations ahead of November’s COP26 summit, barely make a dent in the huge cuts needed to meet global climate goals, the UN climate chief said on Friday, calling for redoubled efforts. A UN report summarising the revised climate action plans – covering […]
World leaders urged to learn from pandemic in adapting to climate change
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world what it is like to go through a dangerous emergency of the kind that could occur if climate change accelerates – and offers lessons on how to respond, the head of the UN climate science panel said Friday. Hoesung Lee, chair of the Intergovernmental […]
2020 likely world’s second hottest year, UN says; New Zealand declares climate emergency
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters This year is on track to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised by heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and raging hurricanes, as the second warmest since records began in 1850. Dried-up rivers and creeks can be seen […]