Essay: A quick guide to climate change jargon – what experts mean by mitigation, carbon neutral and six other key terms
In an article first published on The Conversation, WÄNDI BRUINE DE BRUIN of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, looks at some of the key terms that will be heard at COP26…
Essay: The climate apocalypse is real, and it is coming
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says concern for the environment can no longer be an optional or secondary aspect of Christianity but must be central to who we are as Christians…
Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade – UN climate report
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report said on Monday. The report found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate change, as […]
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 […]
UN climate report likely to deliver stark warnings on global warming
London, UKReuters Eight years after its last update on climate science, the United Nations is set to publish a report Monday that will likely deliver even starker warnings about how quickly the planet is warming – and how damaging the impacts might get. Since the last report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
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 […]
Protect coastal, island communities now as seas rise, scientists urge
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Melting of the world’s glaciers and warming of its oceans are fuelling rising seas, fiercer storms, worsening water shortages and other risks that could force millions from their homes or leave them hungrier and poorer, scientists warned on Wednesday. Some of the threat could be averted both by rapidly slashing climate-heating emissions […]
UN flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming
London/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat free, it called for big changes to farming and […]
As world warms, ‘half a degree’ will worsen suffering, scientists say
Thomson Reuters Foundation Many more people – besides the world’s poorest – will face sweltering heatwaves, more extreme rainfall, shrinking harvests and worsening water shortages unless unprecedented efforts to slow climate change start now, scientists warned on Monday. Without stepped-up action, efforts to adapt to the coming changes – from farmers switching crops to cities […]