UN says world likely to miss climate targets despite COVID pause in emissions
Zurich, SwitzerlandReuters The pace of climate change has not been slowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the world remains behind in its battle to cut carbon emissions, the United Nations said on Thursday. The virus-related economic downturn caused only a temporary downturn in CO2 emissions last year and it was not enough to reverse […]
Greenhouse gases hit new record despite lockdowns, UN says
Geneva, Switzerland/New York, USReuters Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed on Wednesday, as an economic slowdown amid the coronavirus pandemic had little lasting effect. The sharp, but short, dip earlier this year represented only a blip in the build-up of climate-warming carbon […]
Greenhouse gases accelerate to new peak in 2018, UN says
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, exceeding the average yearly increase of the last decade and reinforcing increasingly damaging weather patterns, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. The UN agency’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin is one of a series of studies to be published ahead of a UN […]