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Can climate change influence earthquake activity?

For thousands of years humans have tried to connect earthquake activity to a certain weather event, a scenario referred to as earthquake weather.

Can degrowth stop climate change and end poverty?

A growing movement of researchers want to shrink rich economies to stop the planet heating — but both supporters and critics are gambling on prosperity and climate stability for billions of people across the world.

Can genetically engineered seeds prevent a climate-driven food crisis?

When John Boelts sows acres of cotton seed on his farm in Yuma, Arizona, he does so knowing that the fields will be free of an invasive pest called pink bollworm. For nearly a century, the small pink striped caterpillars terrorized cotton fields in the U.S.

Can rationing carbon help fight climate change?

Once a day, Katja Suhonen opens her phone to check on her carbon footprint. Every journey she makes in her home city of Lahti, a city in the south of Finland, is studied by an experimental app called CitiCap and the carbon impact of her travel choices deducted from a weekly budget.

Can renewable energy give climate-displaced women in Bangladesh a new beginning?

It is nightfall in the village of Char Baghutia in Manikganj district in central Bangladesh. Twenty-seven-year-old Miriam is hunched over a rickety old sewing machine, under a single incandescent lamp, with one hand over the cloth and the other rocking her one-year-old baby to sleep.

Can the human body survive the extreme temperatures caused by climate change?

An Italian research centre is testing how organisms and objects react in extreme climate conditions. The centre is able to generate extreme weathers and temperatures from -40 degrees Celsius up to +60 which could be used to predict how climate change is affecting the natural world.

Can the world’s most influential climate report carry on?

With science around the world grinding to a halt as a result of efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is struggling to keep the world’s next big global-warming report on track.

Can they save us? Meet the climate kids fighting to fix the planet

Despite being barely two years old, the Sunrise Movement has outpaced established environmental groups in the push to radically reshape the political landscape around climate change.

Can we beat climate change by geoengineering the oceans?

Chemically altering the seas through iron fertilisation or alkalinity enhancement could be our best hope to suck vast amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere – but questions remain on whether it is worth the risk

Can we limit global warming to 1.5 °C?

Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can p ...

Can we tweak marine chemistry to help stave off climate change?

The world's nations are nowhere near to meeting the global Paris Agreement's goals on climate change of holding global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius compared to 19th-century averages, much less its more aspirational goal of holding temperatures to a 1.5°C rise.

Can you eat to save the climate?

With the food system responsible for a third of overall global CO2 emissions, attention on climate beneficial foods has been slowly but steadily increasing. According to IFIC’s 2020 Food and Health Survey, 6 in 10 consumers in the US say it is important that the food products they purchase or co ...

Can you pay an elephant to fight climate change?

Countries and businesses pay billions of dollars to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, transferring money to projects like forest or wetland restoration. But these markets have generally ignored wildlife, which are often critically important to the growth of their ecosystems.

Can ‘Carbon Smart’ Farming Play a Key Role in the Climate Fight?

Trey Hill led a small group of fellow farmers to a field outside his office in Rock Hall on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It was a cloudy February day, but the ground was alive with color — purple and red turnip tops mixing exuberantly with green rye, vetch and clover, and beneath it all, rich brown ...

Can ‘living well’ stop climate change?

Humanity has just ten years to turn things around. The most recent IPCC report says that we need to reduce anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030 or else be locked into a warming scenario that none of us wants to see. So, what to do?

Canada And US Heatwave 'impossible' Without Climate Change: Study

The scorching heatwave that hit Canada and the US in June was "virtually impossible" without climate change, said a team of climate researchers from the World Weather Attribution group. The extreme heatwave, which is supposed to be a once-in-a-1000-year-event is now likely to appear about 150 ti ...

Canada and the United States of America Affirm Partnership on Climate Action, Clean Energy, and the Arctic and its Biodiversity

Montreal, 14 March 2016 –The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, applauds the Arctic Partnership announced Thursday by United States President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Washington, D.C. Although focus ...

Canada must urgently invest in research into the health impacts of climate change

The federal budget allocated a lot of money to trying to tackle the causes of climate change, but it glaringly missed the opportunity to support research that would help address the impacts of climate change on human health.

Canada needs a national tracking system to better fight climate change. Here’s why

A new report suggests Canada is not doing enough to adapt to and prevent the effects of climate change and is lacking the critical data it needs to do so.

Canada needs potato varieties suited for climate change

With climate change also becoming a thing on Canada’s crop lands, identifying and/or developing new potato varieties that can grow in warmer temperatures is one of the goals of the research teams of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC).

Canada seeking new members of anti-coal alliance at UN climate change meeting but facing resistance

Canada and the United Kingdom are hosting a “coal-free day” at the United Nations climate talks in Katowice, Poland, a city built on coal mining.

Canada's Arctic, boreal birds will be big climate change losers

Habitat conservation key as native species struggle and “climate refugee” species move north

Canada's building code is getting a climate change rewrite. Is your home ready?

From how concrete is mixed for road construction, to roofing standards enabling buildings to withstand stronger storms and plans to help homeowners manage increased flooding, Canada's building rules are being rewritten due to climate change, according to briefing notes for a senior government of ...

Canadian farmers have a plan for tackling climate change

Agriculture is a major contributor to Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, farmers are hit by some of the worst effects of climate change. But a coalition of farming groups says they can also be a part of the solution.

Canadians have their say about how best to adapt to climate change

With flooding emergencies in parts of Western and Northern Canada, the federal government wants to hear from Canadians about how to adapt to such climate-related disasters.

Canadians have world's largest gender gap on climate change perceptions, UN survey finds

Canadians are “Angry Birds” when it comes to climate change, shows a survey the United Nations calls the largest ever taken on the issue. The mammoth survey, which drew respondents through the use of popular online games, ranked Canada seventh out of 50 countries in its perception of how importa ...

Canary in the coal mine: Gaza, the Levant, and climate change

Located on the dividing line between the Mediterranean climate to its north and the desert to its south, Gaza was first settled as an oasis by the sea. It was built to take advantage of the coastal groundwater aquifer as well as Wadi Gaza, into which several streams flowed from across the Negev ...

Canceled races, fainting players: Climate change turns up heat

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a professional ultrarunner, who competes at distances longer than a marathon, Clare Gallagher has tackled plenty of challenges, from mountains to heat.

Capacity-Building Workshop for SBSTTA-12 Participants

1 July 2007, Paris, France

Capacity-building Workshop for the Caribbean region for National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, mainstreaming of biodiversity and the integration of climate change

Reference: SCBD/ITS/STTM/DC/JW/ac/mc/64688 (2008-105)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the Caribbean region, c.c. SBSTTA Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that a regional workshop for countries of the Caribbean region on capacity-building for national biodiversity strategies and action plans, mainstreaming of biodiversity and the integration of climate change will be held in Trinidad and Tobago, from 3 to 7 November 2008.

Capturing the opportunities of natural climate solutions

Through actions such as reforestation or regenerative agriculture, businesses can work with nature to help mitigate climate change — not just to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but to draw down carbon from the atmosphere. Companies in the land sector that tap into these natural climate solutions ...

Carbon dioxide levels highest in 3 million years, shows unprecedented computer simulation

CO2 greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. During this time, global mean temperatures never exceeded preindustrial levels by more than 2 degrees C. The study is based on breakthrough computer simulations of ice age onset in E ...

Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’

Current plans to cut global carbon emissions will fall 60% short of their 2050 net zero target, the International Energy Agency has said, as it urged leaders to use the upcoming Cop26 climate conference to send an “unmistakable signal” with concrete policy plans.

Carbon labeling can reduce greenhouse gases even if it doesn't change consumer behavior

In a new commentary piece published Dec. 18 in Nature Climate Change, Michael Vandenbergh, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Climate Change Research Network, examines how carbon labeling can help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a variety of ways. The ...

Carbon offsets: Worth buying to fight climate change?

If you've ever booked a flight with an airline like Air Canada or WestJet, you might have been offered a chance to pay money to "offset" the carbon emissions from your flight. But what exactly does that mean? Is it worthwhile? And how do you know you're really getting what you pay for?

Carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services: exploring co-benefits

Climate change mitigation measures can potentially deliver co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem services in addition to emissions reductions. Jointly organised by BfN and UNEP-WCMC, this side-event will present planning tools collaboratively developed w ...

Carbon-cutting pledges by countries nowhere near enough: UN report

The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what is needed to limit global warming to what the Paris climate accord seeks, a new United Nations report finds.

Catastrophes triggered by warming oceans

Climate change is causing the oceans to heat up rapidly. This not only has dramatic consequences for marine life, but also means there will be more extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods and forest fires.

Catastrophic floods could hit Europe far more often, study finds

Catastrophic floods such as those that struck Europe recently could become much more frequent as a result of global heating, researchers say. High-resolution computer models suggest that slow-moving storms could become 14 times more common over land by the end of the century in a worst-case scen ...

Cats, charisma and climate change (commentary)

Hurricane Ida’s warpath is the latest in a litany of natural disasters, estimated to have cost the world $210 billion in damage in 2020, that is shining a spotlight on climate change. Given extensive air time and word counts by global news outlets, a perpetual stream of climate reports described ...

Causes of climate change in Kenya and the world

We have experienced various effects of climate change. From the shifting of animal ranges, trees flowering sooner to accelerated sea level rise, more intense heat waves, to desert like conditions slowly and steadily encroaching formerly productive agricultural land. Understanding the causes of c ...

Celebrating all that soils do for us - Dr Kenneth Loades

COP26 highlighted more than ever that we must reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and become more sustainable before it’s too late. Soil is a key component in this battle and something that we expect to provide food, feed and fibre, store and supply water, store carbon and archive geological and ...

Central European countries block EU moves towards 2050 zero carbon goal

Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic refuse to sign up to text that activists already viewed as too vague

Central Sahel: Ground Zero in Tackling Climate Change Through Education

The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world’s poorest countries. Nowhere is this more visible than in Africa’s Central Sahel region, where increasing temperature, floods, droughts and other climate change-induced disasters are triggering conflicts, displ ...

Central banks are key to countries' climate goals – and Ukraine is showing the way

As the pressures of global warming and climate change remain high on the agenda of major global players such as the US, China and the UK, this does not mean those in the emerging markets realm have put any less of a priority on reducing our own carbon emissions and reaching our own goals.

Chair's Conclusions of G8 2007 Environment Ministers Meeting, Potsdam, 15-17 March 2007.

Changement climatique : il faudra 10 millions d'années pour que la biodiversité se relève de la prochaine extinction de masse

La biosphère aura besoin de 10 millions d'années pour se remettre de l'extinction de masse en cours en raison du changement climatique, d'après une nouvelle étude parue dans . Pour rassembler ces données, des chercheurs britanniques et américains se sont penchés sur la seule extinction de masse ...

Changes in Atlantic currents may have dire climate implications for the next century

The ocean circulation that keeps our relatively northern corner of Europe warm(ish) is often likened to a gigantic conveyor belt bringing warm equatorial water northwards at the surface, balanced by cold southward flow at great depth.

Changes in snowmelt threaten farmers in western US

Farmers in parts of the western United States who rely on snowmelt to help irrigate their crops will be among the hardest hit in the world by climate change, a new study reveals.

Changing climate is narrowing options for migrating birds

Across an entire desert or ocean, migratory birds make some of the most extreme journeys found in nature, but there are still huge gaps in our understanding of how they manage to travel these vast distances and what a changing climate means for their migration patterns.