Posts Tagged ‘Climate’
Climate Change, Population Growth Threats As Malaria Fight Stalls
The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors threatening a resurgence of the potentially fatal disease, campaigners said Tuesday. Insufficient funding for increasingly costly prevention programmes risked efforts against the mosquito-borne illness at a cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of…
Read MoreMigrants Brace For Hostile Climate After Chile’s Election
After a 15-day overland journey during which she feared a heart attack from the high altitude, Venezuelan hairdresser Giovaneska Escobar finally reached Chile, the country where she hoped to rebuild her life with her two young children. Four years later, the 37-year-old says she feels threatened again. Unable to get her papers to live legally…
Read MoreNearly 900 Mn Poor People Exposed To Climate Shocks, UN Warns
Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and deeply unequal burden,” the United Nations warned Friday. “No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and stronger climate change effects like droughts, floods, heat waves, and air pollution,…
Read More‘Good riddance’: Fed clash over scrapping climate risk guidance
RUMBLING discontent over the US Federal Reserve’s guidance on climate change policies spilled into the open on Thursday, when the central bank became the latest regulatory agency to scrap climate-related guidance. In a joint statement, the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said they “do not believe principles for managing climate-related financial risk…
Read MoreClimate Advisers Warn UK To Prepare For 2C Warming By 2050
UK climate advisers warned the government for the first time on Wednesday to prepare for 2C of global warming by 2050, stressing current efforts to adapt to extreme weather are falling far short. Britain is among many countries experiencing record-breaking temperatures this year, with four heatwaves coming alongside below-average rainfall in some areas and prolonged…
Read MoreIn China, Climate Litigation Starts With The State
With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere. Instead of a movement led by activists and NGOs, in China climate litigation is dominated by state prosecutors seeking to enforce existing regulations, rather than…
Read MoreUS Republicans Seek To Shield Oil Giants As Climate Lawsuits Advance
President Donald Trump’s second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables — yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance. Now Republicans are moving to shut them down with a two-pronged strategy: pushing for a federal shield law…
Read MoreBrazil Hopes Amazon Summit Can Unite World For Climate Action
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis. It faces tough odds, with a hostile United States unlikely to show up, waning political appetite for climate action, and eye-watering prices for…
Read MoreScientists Probe Tajik Glacier For Clues To Climate Resistance
Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting — yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last? To find out, a dozen scientists, accompanied exclusively by an AFP photographer, trekked high over one glacier in eastern Tajikistan to…
Read MoreBrazil Hopes COP30 In Amazon Can Unite World For Climate Action
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis. It faces tough odds, with a hostile United States unlikely to show up, political appetite for climate action at a low ebb, and…
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