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About 252 species died in the 'great dying' due to climate change

About 252 years ago, the majority of the species on Earth were killed off in the great dying. It is noted as the worst mass extinction in our planet’s history.

About Australia, Italy And Wildfires

The world’s attention has recently focused on the Australian wildfires caused by climate change. Yet, something similar happens every year also in Italy.

Abu Dhabi is replanting mangroves in the fight against climate change

Abu Dhabi (CNN)The coastal city of Abu Dhabi is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts of climate change. It's threatened by rising sea levels and researchers say it could be too hot to live in by the end of this century if global warming trends continue.

Academic: Very Few Climate Change Doubters, Issue Now Action

NICOSIA, CYPRUS (AP) — A prominent American economist says there are "very few" individuals left who still doubt climate change because the evidence of its impact is clear.

Accountants urged to help firms worldwide combat climate crisis

The world’s accountants must put the climate crisis at the forefront of their work to spur global companies to adopt green policies and help prepare them for the risks, according to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and other industry groups.

Acting now on climate change is Canada’s best financial bet

A recent pilot study by the Bank of Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) highlighted that slow action on climate change will increase the related financial risks.

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.

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.

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change

13 - 16 September 2005, Helsinki, Finland

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biological Diversity and Climate Change

9 - 13 September 2002, Montreal, Canada

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on biological diversity and climate change

13 - 16 May 2003, Helsinki, Finland

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Address by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening of the Expert Meeting on the Further Strengthening of Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change, Montréal, Canada, 19 March 2007.

<br>View also the Address <a href='/doc/speech/2007/sp-2007-03-19-ipcc-fr.pdf'>in French</a>.

Address by Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the Opening of the Expert Meeting on the Further Strengthening of Links between Biodiversity and Climate Change, Montréal, Canada, 19 March 2007.

In the space of a few days, the south of “La Belle Province” has broken all temperature records. On 6 March, temperatures in Montréal reached minus 24.3 degrees Celsius, minus 39 degrees with the wind-chill factor. The previous record dated back to 1989, when the temperature was down to minus 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity

13 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

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.

African Regional Workshop for project development - UNFCCC

2 - 4 September 2009, Botswana

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.

African ministers adopt a Pan-African action agenda on ecosystem restoration: Agree to build momentum to implement commitments for biodiversity

15 November 2018 - African Ministers of Environment together with partner organizations committed to an ambitious action agenda taking a coherent approach to addressing the interlinked challenges of biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change.

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.

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.”

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Agreements reached on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development