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#1244812020-03-03
Acting on Climate Change
Peter Gutwein,Premier and Minister for Climate Change. Tasmania has a proud history as a quiet leader on climate action, with a strong track record of renewable energy and innovation, helping to reduce our emissions and those of the nation.
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#1194252019-01-16
Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience: Managing Risks for a More Resilient Future
The World Bank Group today launched its Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience. Under the plan, the World Bank Group will ramp up direct adaptation climate finance to reach $50 billion over FY21–25.
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#1321852021-12-15
Adam Hardie: Tackling food waste is elephant in room in climate change fight
While world leaders congregated in Glasgow to thrash out climate talks and debate the future of our planet, it was a piece of art out with the SEC campus which held the most poignant message for me: food waste is a bigger contributor to climate change than plastic.
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#1270812021-02-15
Adaptation Can Compound Climate Change Impacts on Energy and Water
In 2014, as California was in the midst of one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, Julia Szinai was working for an electric utility. The worst years of the drought were still ahead, but the impacts of the dry spell on California’s energy system were already clear to Szinai. As water l ...
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#1265902021-01-14
Adaptation Gap Report 2020
As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds.
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#1214312019-06-28
Adapting to Climate Change in Alaska
In the first of three posts, an ecologist looks at how citizens and planners are responding to the threat
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#1202322019-03-06
Adders now active all year with warmer UK weather
The adder, Britain’s only venomous snake, has for the first time been confirmed as being active in every month of the year. Adders normally hibernate underground from October to March, a strategy designed to enable them to survive a cold winter, but with warmer weather have now been seen through ...
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#1224842019-10-02
Addressing Climate Change Can Help Add Alpha And Manage Risk
For nearly five decades, we’ve been at the forefront of responsible investing. Although the burning issues of the times might have evolved—for example, from auto safety and apartheid to climate change and governance—we have consistently worked to make environmental, social and governance factors ...
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#1293582021-06-16
Addressing climate change through carbon taxes
In 2020, we witnessed several extreme weather events around the globe. There were hot and dry weather conditions that led to record-setting wildfires in vast areas of California, Brazil and Australia. And that year’s hurricane season featured 30 destructive named storms in the North Atlantic and ...
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#1277462021-03-22
Adversities of climate change and our role in saving the Earth
In the past century, the human race has achieved immense technological advancements as well as scientific and artistic accomplishments—a great feat in human history. Yet, along with these outstanding achievements, humankind has done unprecedented damage to the Earth’s environment, threatening th ...
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#1212002019-05-24
Advocates aim for 1.5M students in 2nd 'Global Climate Strike'
May 24 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of students around the world are expected to take part in a global event Friday to draw attention to the fight against climate change.
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#1346942022-05-25
Africa Day: How WFP helps families struck by climate change in Burundi
Two decades ago, Jean Nkeramihigo and Francine Kanyana moved to the commune of Vumbi, in Kirundo, Burundi, in search of land so they could start their own farm and bring up a family.
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#1230062019-11-15
Africa Has ‘No Time to Waste’ When It Comes to Climate Change
African governments need to speed up the implementation of environmental reforms if the continent is to match global efforts to combat climate change, according to a senior United Nations official.
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#1242972020-02-21
Africa at risk – Climate Weekly
African nations are among the most vulnerable to climate change, with ever more heatwaves, droughts and floods disrupting water and food supplies on the world’s poorest continent.
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#1255182020-11-03
Africa: Climate Change Threatens Socio-Economic Development in Africa, Says Report
Increasing temperatures and sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather are threatening human health and safety, food and water security and socio-economic development in Africa, says a new report devoted exclusively to the continent.
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#1255172020-11-03
Africa: Climate Change, Migration and Urbanisation - Patterns in Sub-Saharan Africa
The link between climate change and migration has gained both academic and public interest in recent years. Many studies have found that environmental hazards affect migration. But the links are nuanced and depend on the economic and sociopolitical conditions in the respective regions of origin.
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#1299412021-08-13
Africa: Climate Repair - Three Things We Must Do Now to Stabilise the Planet
"Nowhere is safe." As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a recent report that climate change and its consequences are here to stay, is there still an opportunity to mitigate some of the dangers and to get back to a place of relative safety for humanity?
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#1261502020-12-10
Africa: Climate change and sustainable development must be a two-way street
Fossil resources have enabled a revolutionary wave of innovation in our societies since the start of the 20th century, but there are hidden costs in fossil resources to society.
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#1246212020-03-11
Africa: Coronavirus Tops 'Perfect Storm' of Climate Challenges, Says Prince Charles
The growing COVID-19 outbreak is making already complex efforts to speed action on climate change more challenging, says Britain's Prince Charles. The growing global coronavirus outbreak is making already complex efforts to speed up action on climate change more challenging, Britain's Prince Cha ...
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#1276852021-03-15
Africa: Now is the time to unite and prepare for climate action!
The Dasgupta Review, released after the conclusion of the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP25), is a 600-page comprehensive report that acknowledges the intimate relationship between climate change and biodiversity loss.
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#1297552021-07-28
Africa: Protecting Plants Will Protect People and the Planet
Back-to-back droughts followed by plagues of locusts have pushed over a million people in southern Madagascar to the brink of starvation in recent months. In the worst famine in half a century, villagers have sold their possessions and are eating the locusts, raw cactus fruits, and wild leaves t ...
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#1262052020-12-14
Africa: Restoring 1 billion hectares would mitigate climate change
The Climate Ambition Summit this month marks the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement. World leaders meeting online are being asked to deliver stronger, more ambitious commitments that will spark action to halt the unfolding climate crisis.
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#1253652020-05-01
African Continent: Challenges of Climate and Demographic Changes
Impacts of climate change and growing population, as well as the threats to human development – such as poverty, crime and health – could lead to insecurity and instability in African countries. Hence, the continent must already start preparing to deal with these risk factors. For this purpose, ...
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#1253692020-05-01
African Continent: Challenges of Climate and Demographic Changes
Impacts of climate change and growing population, as well as the threats to human development – such as poverty, crime and health – could lead to insecurity and instability in African countries. Hence, the continent must already start preparing to deal with these risk factors. For this purpose, ...
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#1191122018-12-19
African Development Bank more resolute in fighting against climate change
The curtain has fallen on COP24 , this year’s global climate summit held in Katowice, Poland. However, negotiations continued throughout the weekend to reach agreement on specific parts of the ‘rulebook’ to be applied from 2020 by the 197 signatories of the Paris Agreement (https://bit.ly/2S8gL ...
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#1215912019-07-16
African Development Bank, Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification join forces to strengthen capacity in climate change and land degradation
The African Development Bank and the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/UNCCD), in partnership with UN Women, are joining forces to strengthen the capacity of African stakeholders to tackle climate change.
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#1233252019-12-06
African Politicians Asked to Develop Legal Instruments to Fight Climate Change
African legislators have been challenged to come up with legal frameworks for climate change to enable countries avoid catastrophes and reactionary emergencies that eat up their budgets.
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#1311572021-10-26
African leaders, hard-hit by climate change, plan a tougher stance at Glasgow negotiations
Gabon’s Environment Minister, Lee White, is readying an arsenal of arguments in favour of funding the next stage in Africa’s campaign to stave off the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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#1318332021-11-19
African nations settled for ‘moral pact’ with US on adaptation finance at Cop26
African nations accepted a “moral commitment” that the US will deliver increased finance for developing countries to cope with intensifying climate impacts in exchange for backing the Cop26 deal in Glasgow.
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#1279352021-04-07
African presidents and global leaders support bold action on climate change adaptation for Africa
In a historic and united show of solidarity for a continent that contributes only 5% to global emissions, more than 30 heads of state and global leaders committed to prioritize actions that help African countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and “build forward better.”
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#1257362020-11-17
After 4 typhoons, ACB chief says time to turn to nature for climate action
THE Asean Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) said on Monday it is high time to push for the restoration of degraded ecosystems and conservation of existing ones as part of the disaster risk reduction strategies.
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#1318322021-11-19
After COP26, regional collaboration will continue to drive bold climate change action
Long before COP26 drew to a frantically delayed close last weekend, the recriminations and finger-pointing were already in full flow. The final deal is in many respects a disappointing compromise; or as UN Secretary-General António Guterres put it, a document that reflects “the interests, contra ...
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#1323842022-01-11
After Record-Breaking Heat in 2021, Strategy Shares Launches Its Fight Against Climate Change
Rob Gough, a portfolio manager for Strategy Shares’ newest ETF NZRO, has experience as an actor and serial entrepreneur, and is well acquainted with the plotlines of action-thriller Hollywood disaster films. He currently co-stars alongside Bruce Willis in the movie American Siege. Yet, despite w ...
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#1248922020-03-26
Aggressive action to address climate change could save the world $145 trillion
As respected research group, Project Drawdown, finds that deploying solutions consistent with meeting the Paris climate targets would cost tens of trillions of dollars globally. But crucially, those outlays would also yield long-term savings many times larger than the up-front costs.
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#1322952022-01-04
Agricultural and industrial sources as the main cause to the soaring atmospheric methane
In a paper published in National Science Review, an international team of scientists evaluated scenarios about what is causing methane concentrations to rapidly increase in the atmosphere.
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#1209772019-05-08
Aid funding must recognise climate change emergency, say MPs
‘Extreme, huge, and existential’ threat posed by climate change must be a central consideration when distributing aid
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#1343422022-05-10
Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis
A record-breaking heat wave is sweeping South Asia, threatening hundreds of millions of people with deadly temperatures well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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#1250112020-04-08
Airlines lobby to rewrite carbon deal in light of coronavirus
Airlines are lobbying to rewrite the rules of a global agreement designed to tackle aviation emissions, with the coronavirus outbreak expected to make its targets tougher to meet.
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#1205922019-04-01
Al Roker travels to the Arctic for firsthand look at climate change
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. And scientists studying global warming are trying to learn why.That’s why Al Roker headed to Utqiagvik, Alaska, considered ground zero for climate change, and learn from the scientists gathering critical information there that could help sav ...
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#1268732021-02-04
Alarming rise in global temperatures
The past six years have been the warmest on record since 1880, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release on 15 January. The year 2020 was 1.2°C above pre-industrial era (1880) temperatures.
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#1209332019-05-03
Alaska's indigenous people feel the heat of climate change
The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak.
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#1338652022-03-31
Allergy season is getting worse. Why climate change is to blame
If you suffer from seasonal allergies, you are well aware the dreaded season is underway, and for many, it’s another bad year. According to medical experts, the allergy season has been getting worse.
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#1273412021-02-25
Allergy season starts earlier each year due to climate change and pollen transport
Allergy sufferers are no strangers to problems with pollen. But now - due to climate change - the pollen season is lasting longer and starting earlier than ever before, meaning more days of itchy eyes and runny noses
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#1269312021-02-09
Allergy season starts earlier, lasts longer, gets worse with climate change
When Dr. Stanley Fineman started as an allergist in Atlanta, he told patients they should start taking their medications and prepare for the drippy, sneezy onslaught of pollen season around St. Patrick's Day. That was about 40 years ago. Now he tells them to start around St. Valentine's Day.
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#1190172018-12-13
Alliance pledges to step up efforts at UN climate change talks
The UN climate talks have received a much-needed injection as they enter their final hours, with an alliance of 27 countries promising to step up efforts to tackle climate change under the Paris agreement.
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#1198882019-02-11
Allison Hanes: Quebec students poised to strike over climate change
It is with this mix of emotions that many young Quebecers regard the future. But it’s not so much their individual futures that are the source of worry; it’s their collective future. Or rather, our collective future as humans on a planet that is rapidly warming.
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#1228882019-11-06
Almost 13,000 Dublin homes will be affected by climate change – EPA
Almost 13,000 homes in Dublin City are predicted to be affected by extreme coastal flooding if climate change continues at its current pace, the head of the environment watchdog has said.
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#1334122022-02-22
Almost 15,000 ‘ghost flights’ have left UK since pandemic began
Almost 15,000 “ghost flights” have departed from the UK, according to newly revealed official figures. The ghost flights, defined as those with no passengers or less than 10% of passenger capacity, operated from all 32 airports listed in the data.
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#1319232021-11-24
Alpine Space: Call for projects on decarbonisation, circular economy and biodiversity
The European Commission and Switzerland are issuing a call for projects for the 2021-2027 Alpine Space programme. The call will run until 28 February 2022. The aim of the programme is to enable Alpine regions to become climate neutral, enhance their competitiveness and to equip themselves to add ...
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#1216972019-07-25
Alpine climbing routes crumble as climate change strikes
High up in the natural wonder of the French Alps, the climbers who spend their days among the rockfaces and glaciers have come to a grim conclusion: the mountains are falling down around them.