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#1231472019-11-27
China says CO2 border tax will damage global climate change fight
BEIJING — New European proposals to launch a “carbon border tax” will damage global efforts to tackle climate change, China said on Wednesday, urging a pushback against climate “protectionism,” a week before fresh global climate talks in Madrid.
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#1262532020-12-15
China to boost cooperation on climate change, manifesting its determination despite challenges ahead
China said it is ready to boost international cooperation and action on climate change by making sure it pushes ahead with the implementation of the Paris Agreement, manifesting its determination to address the global challenge at its best.
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#1190452018-12-14
China's 'complicated' role in fight against climate change
When the leaders of the world's two biggest economies — and its two biggest polluters — finally saw eye to eye on climate change, they paved the way for a historic global agreement to fight it.
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#1187112018-10-29
China, France launch satellite to study climate change
The first Franco-Chinese satellite was launched into orbit on Monday to study ocean surface winds and waves around the clock, better predict cyclones and improve scientists' understanding of climate change.
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#1281552021-04-21
China’s Xi Jinping to attend Joe Biden’s climate summit
China’s President Xi Jinping will attend a US-led climate change summit on Thursday at the invitation of President Joe Biden, in the first meeting between the two leaders since the advent of the new US administration.
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#1231952019-12-02
Choose hope or climate surrender, UN chief tells COP25 summit
The United Nations has opened a two-week climate summit in Madrid, where world leaders face growing pressure to prove they can muster the political will to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming.
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#1303232021-09-07
Christian leaders unite to issue stark warning over climate crisis
Global Christian leaders have joined forces to warn that the world is facing a critical moment as the climate crisis threatens the future of the planet.
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#1302162021-09-01
Christine Lagarde on how to address COVID-19, climate change and inequality
The following is a discussion between Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, and Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. It was featured by TIME on 1 September as part of the TIME 100 Talks programs.
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#1271982021-02-19
Cities May Be Our Greatest Hope in the Face of Climate Change and the Pandemic
Thirty days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we celebrate the United States’ re-entry into the Paris Agreement, an important victory for the country and the world. As mayors united in our commitment to address the climate crisis, we recognize this enormous opportunity to raise global cl ...
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#1341232022-04-20
Cities Must Address The Threat Of Climate Change
While we cope with the immediate crises of Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine, rising inflation, and political turmoil, we’ve been reminded recently of a pervasive, lurking problem: climate change.
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#1312202021-10-27
Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future – not skyscrapers
More than half of the world’s 7.8 billion people live in cities and urban areas. By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion will be living there. As that figure continues to climb and ever more people flock to metropolitan areas in the hope of a better life, the big question is: how do we fit everyone in?
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#1258052020-11-20
Cities must actively shape development to combat climate change
We are in a critical decade, with a last shot to avoid the worst consequences of crises such as climate change and biodiversity loss. A recent report from the United Nations concluded that the world has failed to meet a single target on stopping biodiversity loss since targets were agreed upon i ...
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#1227602019-10-28
Cities turn to urban forests to combat climate change
Halifax is mitigating the effects of climate change by making it easier for people to get lost in the woods – within city limits. Backed by funding from all three government levels and fundraising through the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the city is building the Halifax Wilderness Park, a 380-a ...
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#1283772021-04-30
Cities’ notable efforts on climate change
In 2020, some 56% of the world’s people lived in cities, a proportion that is expected to keep increasing in coming years. The United Nations reports that cities use 78% of the world’s energy and produce more than 60% of its greenhouse gas emissions. So what happens there matters greatly to ever ...
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#1251402020-04-17
Citizens’ assemblies on climate change seek to shape the post-Covid recovery
As governments mull over multi-billion packages to weather the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, citizens’ assemblies could have a role to play in shaping a green recovery.
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#1330612022-02-10
City sets sights on new utility for dealing with climate change induced storm water events
The effects of climate change are moving the city toward the creation of its own storm water utility to deal with the increase in significant rain events.
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#1195972019-01-25
Climat, biodiversité, développement: quelle place pour les acteurs économiques?
A l'heure où la préservation de la biodiversité et des espaces naturels, en plus de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique s'imposent comme des enjeux majeurs, quelle place les acteurs de l'économie peuvent-ils avoir dans le basculement vers une société plus durable? Tour d'horizon avec plu ...
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#1310622021-10-22
Climate & Biodiversity: Various Business Strategies
Last week, part one of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15, ended in Kunming. It set the stage for an ambitious post-2020 global biodiversity framework when it reconvenes in 2022.
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#1247922020-03-20
Climate Change Adaptation: Setting New Rules to End 'Throwaway Culture'
Climate change and its consequences have radically changed the way we view the world. We are all aware of how flimsy our products now are. The good old days of durable appliances and heavy-duty equipment and gadgets are but nostalgic memories of yesteryears.
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#1241222020-02-11
Climate Change Adaptation: With Little Focus On Transformation, We’re Doing It Wrong, Review Explains
The general consensus amount climate change researchers and climate action organisations is that we have a decade to cut our emissions considerably and clean up our act before the adverse effects and lasting changes resulting from climate change become irreversible.
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#1334702022-02-24
Climate Change Affects Antarctic Silverfish Population in Western Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica; Notothenioidei) is the only indigenous Southern Ocean fish with a fully pelagic life cycle, accounting for approximately 90% of adult and larval fish biomass in coastal parts of the Southern Ocean.
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#1281962021-04-22
Climate Change Amplifies Instability in Africa
Climate change is straining livelihoods across broad swaths of Africa, intensifying instability in multifaceted ways. The continent’s ability to adapt to and mitigate these effects will have global repercussions. Climate change is inherently unfair. It tends to most affect the poorest countries ...
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#1271962021-02-19
Climate Change And Suppression Tactics Critical Factors Increasing Fires
The millions of people affected by 2020’s record-breaking and deadly fires can attest to the fact that wildfire hazards are increasing across western North America.
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#1251462020-04-17
Climate Change Anxiety Has Always Existed For Me
In honor of Earth Day 2020, we're rolling out stories on how climate change impacts mental health all month. In this op-ed, Saya Ameli Hajebi writes about health, home, and how she's working to protect it.
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#1345452022-05-18
Climate Change Boosted Cost of Japan Storm by $4 Billion, Study Shows
The effects of human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly $4 billion of the $10 billion in insured losses resulting from Typhoon Hagibis that struck Japan in October of 2019, according to a new analysis of the storm.
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#1204522019-03-22
Climate Change Claims Its First Mammal Extinction
It’s official: Climate change has claimed its first mammal extinction. This week the Australian government declared the extinction of a tiny rodent called Bramble Cay melomys (also known as the Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat, Melomys rubicola).
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#1343642022-05-11
Climate Change Controlled Where Early Humans Lived
Astronomically driven climate change influenced where various archaic humans—a broad group including Homo sapiens, Denisovans, and Homo neanderthalensis who roamed the earth about 2.3 million years ago—lived and when they moved to new locations.
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#1348312022-06-02
Climate Change Could Completely Consume the Siberian Tundra by 2050, Studies Show
As we know, the Arctic tundra won't be around much longer. Climate change is causing the sea levels to rise, and the ice to melt, which is also, in turn, wiping out the plant and animal species that live there. And unfortunately things aren't much different in Siberia.
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#1269042021-02-08
Climate Change Could Have Played A Role In The COVID-19 Outbreak
A study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment provides the first evidence of a mechanism by which climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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#1333062022-02-17
Climate Change Could Hinder Reforestation
Scientists are worried about the impact of climate change on forests as multiple side effects of climate change have severely cut back on the world’s natural forests. Scientists also believe that climate change could hinder reforestation in the future.
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#1326612022-01-20
Climate Change Could Lead To Blackouts & Higher Power Costs On West Coast
Two new studies led by a North Carolina State University researcher offer a preview of what electricity consumers on the West Coast could experience under two different future scenarios: one where excessive heat due to climate change strains power supplies, and one where the grid shifts toward r ...
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#1201042019-02-26
Climate Change Could Make These Super-Common Clouds Extinct, Which Would Scorch the Planet
If humanity pumps enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of Earth's most important types of cloud could go extinct. And if the stratocumulus clouds — those puffy, low rolls of vapor that blanket much of the planet at any given moment — disappear, Earth's temperature could climb sharply a ...
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#1246682020-03-13
Climate Change Could See up to 1.2 Billion People Suffer From Rising Temperatures
Rising temperatures caused by climate change could see up to 1.2 billion people suffer from heat stress by 2100 if greenhouse gases are not curbed, a study found.
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#1270462021-02-12
Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding
It is the wood that the rock greats have sworn by—swamp ash, in the form of their Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars—for over 70 years. If you've ever listened to rock, you've probably heard a swamp ash, solid body guitar. But now, climate change is threatening the wood that helped build ...
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#1197982019-02-06
Climate Change Could Thaw The Home Of Humanity's Doomsday Vault
If climate change has its way, the seeds the world is saving for doomsday might just be able to grow in the Arctic, according to a report released Monday by the Norwegian government.
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#1279382021-04-07
Climate Change Demands Industry Change — Let's Figure It Out
By now, it's common knowledge that the Earth's climate is changing at an alarming rate, and human activity is a contributing factor. It's also widely acknowledged that the infrastructure that's powering exciting advancements in technology — things like cloud computing, AI and IoT — has a big sus ...
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#1262842020-12-16
Climate Change Drives Babbler Birds Into “Ecological Trap”
Animals can fall into an “ecological trap” by altering their behavior in the “wrong direction” in response to climate change, researchers say. The so-called “rescue hypothesis” suggests many species might successfully adapt to changing conditions, especially those that are flexible in their beha ...
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#1309362021-10-19
Climate Change Drives Escalating Drought
For more than 20 years the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) has been monitoring dozens of indices of drought around the country, including satellite measurements of evaporation and color in vegetation, soil-moisture sensors, rainfall estimates, and river and streamflow levels.
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#1250132020-04-08
Climate Change Drove Settlers to South Pacific Islands 200 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of the vast eastern Pacific with its few and far-flung island archipelagos was a remarkable achievement in human history. Yet th ...
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#1192262019-01-03
Climate Change Forces Central American Farmers to Migrate
As he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey, as undocumented migrants, to the United States.
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#1312782021-10-28
Climate Change Has Already Hit Southern Africa. Here’s How We Know.
Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance.
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#1229312019-11-08
Climate Change Has Claimed A Major Glacier As Its Next Victim
NASA has released satellite photos showing the world's thickest glacier, once thought to be impervious to global warming, has retreated.
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#1188282018-11-07
Climate Change Has Greater Effect On Species In Tropical Mountains
The traits that help create biodiversity in tropical mountain species also make them more susceptible to climate change, according to new research.
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#1282672021-04-27
Climate Change Has Now Invisibly Shifted Earth's Axis, New Data Reveal
Humanity's impacts on our planet's climate are so profound, we have for decades been unwittingly shifting the very axis upon which Earth spins around, scientists say.
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#1330682022-02-10
Climate Change Impact in Ukraine
A new World Bank report, Ukraine: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture and Forestry, is the first detailed assessment of the potential impacts of climate change on Ukraine, with a focus on agriculture – a key driver of the economy and jobs.
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#1232672019-12-04
Climate Change Is Accelerating: ‘Things Are Getting Worse’
More devastating fires in California. Persistent drought in the Southwest. Record flooding in Europe and Africa. A heat wave, of all things, in Greenland
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#1312922021-10-29
Climate Change Is Affecting Polar Bear Diet
Climate change is disproportionately affecting the polar regions. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) revealed that in the last just the last 50 years, the Arctic warmed up by nearly three times quicker than the rest of t ...
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#1192032018-12-27
Climate Change Is Affecting Shark Swimming Behavior
Climate change has been on everyone’s tongue lately, with many wondering how this phenomenon is changing our animals. Australian scientists have discovered one way it is altering the behavior of one of our oceanic predators: sharks. According to the study published in the Symmetry magazine, our ...
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#1205282019-03-27
Climate Change Is Already Reshaping How We Farm
After years of struggling through summer heat and wildfire smoke, farmers in Washington are building their own, cooperatively run, future.Our climate is changing, and our approaches to politics and activism have to change with it.
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#1232342019-12-03
Climate Change Is Altering Migration Patterns Regionally and Globally
Since at least 2014, a growing number of asylum-seekers from Central America have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. While the response from the Obama administration raised genuine protection concerns, the Trump administration has taken the draconian and unwelcoming approach of dismantling the U.S.