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#1197692019-02-05
British chips shrink by an inch as climate change slashes potato yields
Britain’s chips are under threat as climate change triggers unpredictable weather and brings sweeping changes to the nation’s fruit and vegetable growers.
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#1278672021-04-01
Browne to argue for climate justice at Biden summit of world leaders
Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne intends to make “a robust contribution on behalf of all Caricom countries” when he participates in the Summit Meeting on Climate organised by US President, Joseph Biden, he said in a statement on Monday.
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#1273182021-02-24
Building a climate-resilient future - A new EU Strategy on Αdaptation to Climate Change
The European Commission adopted today a new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, setting out the pathway to prepare for the unavoidable impacts of climate change. While the EU does everything within its power to mitigate climate change, domestically and internationally, we must also get ...
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#1220512019-08-29
Burgundy wine grapes suggest global warming has accelerated in last 30 years
Aug. 29 (UPI) -- According to a new survey of Burgundy wine grape harvests in France, picking has begun an average of 13 days earlier over the last 30 years than during the previous 650 days.
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#1218662019-08-09
Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes
NAIROBI, Aug 9 2019 (IPS) - The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come.
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#1239362020-01-24
Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and flash floods: two weeks in apocalyptic Australia
In Australia this summer, talking about the weather inevitably leads to talking about the apocalypse.“When’s the plague of locusts going to arrive?” jokes one Sydney resident after hearing reports that her city is to receive another storm of giant hailstones on Friday afternoon, just a day after ...
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#1339112022-04-01
Butterfly survival reduced by warmer and longer autumns
Pupae of the green-veined white butterfly use more energy if autumn is long and warm, which leaves them too weak to emerge as butterflies in spring - and the results might apply to other butterfly species too.
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#1210602019-05-14
Butterfly temperature research 'could boost survival chances'
Thousands of wild butterflies have had their temperatures taken by researchers who hope the results could help safeguard the species' future.
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#1322442021-12-21
By ditching landmark climate legislation, America makes the world unsafe
The rest of the world needs to start treating the US as what it is: a dangerous country that needs to be reined in.
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#1224042019-09-27
COMMENTARY: Is climate change changing the political climate?
Will the impassioned speech of Greta Thunberg at the United Nations affect Canadian voters? Will the walk-out of so many students move people to care about the environmental platforms of the various parties?
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#1320302021-12-03
COP-26 Results: High Hopes for Low Temperatures
At the opening ceremony of COP-26, Chairman Alok Sharma stated that the decisions made in Glasgow should be more vigorous than those of Paris. In Scotland’s largest city, the parties to the UNFCCC, after several unsuccessful attempts made in previous years, were again trying to hammer out the ru ...
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#1189982018-12-12
COP24 Overnight Briefing: Sports industry joins race against climate change
Sporting royalty, and indeed plain royalty, gathered at COP24 on Tuesday to present the UN's first Sports for Climate Action Framework. The framework seeks to galvanise action from sports clubs, athletes, and fans around the world to reduce emissions from the sports industry and spread the word ...
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#1189862018-12-11
COP24: UN science panel chief calls for more action to curb warming
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chair Hoesung Lee told delegates at the COP24 climate summit in Katowice that the world needed to “do more and faster” to avoid dangerous climate change, reports the Associated Press. He said: “The report shows that not just action, but urgent act ...
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#1231942019-12-02
COP25 begins in Madrid amid bleak assessments of climate change
Dozens of world leaders gathered at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Spain Monday amid a sense of urgency sparked by a pair of alarming scientific reports issued last month.
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#1232232019-12-03
COP25: UN Secretary-General concerned over 'utterly inadequate' efforts against climate change
Concerned about that the world’s efforts to stop climate change have been “utterly inadequate” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres paid a “surprise” visit to Madrid on Sunday, ahead of the official start of the 25th round of the UN-sponsored climate change talks.
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#1231722019-11-29
COP25: UN climate change conference, 5 things you need to know
Climate change is happening—the world is already 1.1°C warmer than it was at the onset of the industrial revolution, and it is already having a significant impact on the world, and on people’s lives.
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#1321312021-12-10
COP26 Cop-out?
Did the 26th UN Conference of the Parties on climate change in Glasgow produce any useful results, other than boosting airline and travel industry profits?
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#1318512021-11-19
COP26 failed to address ocean acidification, but the law of the seas means states must protect the world's oceans
The COP26 summit may come to be regarded as a failure or an important milestone, but it certainly failed to address the "other" climate change problem: ocean acidification.
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#1305852021-09-30
COP26's success rests partly on global climate fund promised in 2015 — and it's short billions
Climate scientist Saleem Huq says the world should prepare for a big letdown when the UN climate conference gets under way next month in Glasgow, Scotland.
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#1280552021-04-14
COP26: Delaying key climate meeting preferable to 'messing it up'
A former UN climate chief says that delaying the critical Glasgow meeting this year would be preferable to risking a failed conference.There have been doubts over the wisdom of having thousands of delegates attending the event - known as COP26 - while concerns linger over Covid-19.
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#1309402021-10-19
COP26: Does a climate summit need 25,000 people? And more questions
It's two weeks until the start of the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow - one of the biggest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming. But what's it all about? BBC News environment correspondent Matt McGrath answers some of your questions.
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#1266622021-01-19
COP26: Photographer to highlight climate change in exhibition
A photographer is hoping to raise awareness around climate change by displaying wildlife pictures at a summit of world leaders.Brian Matthews, from Hartlepool, travels the world photographing animals, from polar bears in Canada to orang-utans in Borneo.
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#1305802021-09-30
COP26: The biggest climate change conference in the world and why it matters
The planet, you've likely heard, isn't doing so well. The latest report from the United Nations' chief climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shows global temperatures are very likely to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the next few decades. Human-gene ...
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#1317522021-11-17
COP26: The truth behind the new climate change denial
As world leaders met at the COP26 summit to debate how to tackle climate change, misleading claims and falsehoods about the climate spiralled on social media.
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#1320172021-12-02
COP26: UK 'nowhere near' meeting targets agreed at Glasgow climate summit
The UK is "nowhere near" meeting emissions targets enshrined at the Glasgow climate summit, official advisers have warned.
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#1284282021-05-05
COP26: UK and India pledge to 'deepen work on climate change'
Virtual meeting between Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Narendra Modi sees UK and India agree joint roadmap to combat climate change by 2030
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#1306102021-10-06
COP26: billions are being spent tackling climate change – where is it all going? Climate Fight podcast part 1
As hosts of COP26 – this year’s annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the UK has asked attendees to step up efforts to mobilise public and private sources of financial aid.
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#1272192021-02-19
COVID-19 has not Made People any Less Concerned About Climate Change
The study has discovered that for one year and two months—inclusive of the first three months of the COVID-19 lockdown—neither the worry regarding climate change nor the opinion about the severity of the issue reduced in the United Kingdom.
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#1250442020-04-09
COVID-19 provides lessons on climate adaptation for cities
It is an extremely challenging time for cities. With the novel coronavirus COVID-19 infiltrating cities across the U.S., leaders and staff are working around the clock to develop and implement policies aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, adequately caring for those infected, providing a ba ...
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#1258252020-11-24
COVID-19 response shows there's hope for fighting climate change, experts say
For many governments around the world, COVID-19 has forced the injection of tens of millions of dollars into their economies to maintain quality of life and prevent several industries from crashing.
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#1269842021-02-10
California's rainfall is at historic lows. That spells trouble for wildfires and farms
Precipitation fills reservoirs, limits fire danger and feeds important crops. But the state has seen only 30% to 70% of what it would expect
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#1286552021-05-14
California’s volunteer ‘Climate Action Corps’ helps fight climate change
The state recently launched the California Climate Action Corps. The program’s fellows work full-time on community climate projects in exchange for a monthly stipend and an education grant.
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#1271712021-02-18
Call to tax international flights to raise climate funds for poor countries
Taxes on international transport could provide new flows of finance to developing countries to help them reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cope with the impacts of climate breakdown, a group of climate finance experts have said.
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#1296742021-07-26
Can Arctic Animals Keep Up With Climate Change? Scientists are Trying to Find Out
New studies suggest that rising temperatures may prove disastrous for species of birds, fish and other animals that are adapted to the cold of Arctic climes.
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#1208552019-04-25
Can Humans Help Trees Outrun Climate Change?
SCITUATE, R. I. — Foresters began noticing the patches of dying pines and denuded oaks, and grew concerned. Warmer winters and drier summers had sent invasive insects and diseases marching northward, killing the trees.
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#1205112019-03-26
Can Soil Microbes Slow Climate Change?
With global carbon emissions hitting an all-time high in 2018, the world is on a trajectory that climate experts believe will lead to catastrophic warming by 2100 or before. Some of those experts say that to combat the threat, it is now imperative for society to use carbon farming techniques tha ...
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#1339132022-04-01
Can carbon markets supercharge nature-based solutions to climate change?
Market economics have done much to c ause the climate crisis. But can they help solve it? Carbon markets and sustainable finance taxonomy are two rapidly growing market mechanisms that promise a surge in climate finance and a simultaneous decline in greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1267732021-01-29
Can climate change action lead to better inclusion?
From Beijing to London, Stockholm to Tokyo and Paris to Seoul, government and business leaders are responding to climate change by making momentous decisions that will transform their business strategies and practices. As leaders seek to address the issues of climate change, this is the time to ...
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#1252972020-04-28
Can climate change cause conflicts?
Climate change is a global threat to security in the 21st century. The United Nations climate panel, the IPCC, gave the world just 12 years to make the drastic but necessary changes. Its report said emissions had to be cut by 45% before 2030 if warming was to be restricted to 1.5-degree Celsius.
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#1302562021-09-02
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.
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#1350652022-06-28
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.
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#1318632021-11-19
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.
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#1242202020-02-18
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.
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#1245812020-03-09
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.
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#1307332021-10-13
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.
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#1250172020-04-08
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.
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#1201892019-03-04
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.
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#1351212022-06-29
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
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#1186842018-10-26
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 ...
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#1203192019-03-12
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.