GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – All that’s left of a gargantuan ice sheet that once covered nearly 30 percent of North America is a Delaware-size ice cap in Canada. Scientists have found that the ice cap began to expand around 2,000 years ago—a sign of a new ice age—but it started shrinking in the […]
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GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire: Post Courtesy of Carbon Brief The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has concluded that goals for achieving sustainability “cannot be met by current […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Brazil Puts Forward Plan to Wean World Off Fossil Fuels Brazil has released a global roadmap to “help countries wean their economies off oil, gas and coal over the next decade”, John Ainger, reports for Bloomberg It says Brazil committed to producing the roadmap, and one on deforestation, as […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – At COP31, climate minister Bhupender Yadav said that India is “seeking a decision to commence the climate-finance work programme” under Article 9 of the Paris Agreement by Jasjeev Gandhiok, The Hindustan Times It quotes Yadav saying India will also “press for mitigation and the global stocktake to remain party-driven, […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Here’s COP17: Key outcomes agreed at the UN biodiversity conference in Yerevan: See Carbon Brief’s detailed summary of COP17’s key outcomes. The COP17 UN nature talks ended in Yerevan, Armenia on Saturday with countries “agree[ing] to step up efforts”, reports the Financial Times. It says the summit “recognised” that the world […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – Record carbon dioxide levels will impact us for centuries, says UN weather agency The agency’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin indicates an average global concentration of CO2 at 426.8 parts per million (ppm) last year, or 153 per cent of the 1750 pre-industrial baseline. “Every additional part per million matters because it traps additional heat. […]
GlobalWarming & ClimateChange News Desk – On this World Cities Day, we stand just 10 days away from as COP17 ends in Yervan, Armenia and COP31 begins in Antalya, Turkey – the year’s most critical global climate summit With urbanization accelerating at an unprecedented rate, the fight against global warming will be won or lost […]
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