What the new WEF report says about climate crisis
2 years, 2 months ago

What the new WEF report says about climate crisis

Live Mint  

The ongoing World Economic Forum returned to Davos, Switzerland, earlier this week to engage entrepreneurs, researchers, corporate bosses, and political leaders in discussions about global issues for the year ahead. Ahead of the annual meeting, the WEF released, ‘The Global Risks Report 2023’ on January 12, with key findings about the impact of the climate crisis and the lack of action. Among the respondents in the WEF report, 70% said existing measures to prevent or prepare for climate change have been “ineffective” or “highly ineffective”. Notably, adaptation has not been adequately funded, with “34% of climate finance currently allocated to adaptation worldwide.” The report also emphasised that social and political polarisation may also further reduce the opportunity for collective problem-solving to address these global risks. However, climate change has often been pushed down the priority list at Davos, and this trend might continue this year, as according to the report, the cost-of-living crisis is the most severe risk that the world will be facing in the next two years.

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Only 15 countries have met the latest Paris agreement deadline. Is any nation serious about tackling climate change?
1 week, 3 days ago

Only 15 countries have met the latest Paris agreement deadline. Is any nation serious about tackling climate change?

The Quint  

The latest deadline for countries to submit plans for slashing the greenhouse gas emissions fuelling climate change has passed. Only 15 countries met it – less than 8% of the 194 parties currently signed up to the Paris agreement, which obliges countries to submit new proposals for eliminating emissions every five years. Cop30 host Brazil submitted a pledge to reduce …

Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Top climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'

Raw Story  

Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now "impossible," according to a stark new analysis published by leading scientists. Led by renowned climatologist James Hansen, the paper appears in the journal "Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development" and concludes that Earth's climate is more sensitive to rising …

Climate Change: Why 2025 is a do-or-die year for climate action
2 months ago

Climate Change: Why 2025 is a do-or-die year for climate action

Live Mint  

Donald Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accords was a decision foretold. Trump has never been shy of airing his deep climate denialism, so it was clear as soon as the US presidential results were announced last November that the US would give up on climate action. For poorer nations, which have largely contributed next to nothing to …

Extreme weather events pose the highest risk to the world: WEF report
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Extreme weather events pose the highest risk to the world: WEF report

India Today  

Days after the deadly wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, extreme weather events have been identified as the second highest risk to the world over the next two years and the highest risk over the next decade, according to the latest Global Risks Report released by the World Economic Forum. The report indicates that nearly 14% of experts surveyed view …

WEF report lists biggest global risks
2 months, 2 weeks ago

WEF report lists biggest global risks

China Daily  

Impressions from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, Jan 16. State-based armed conflicts, extreme weather events, and geoeconomic confrontation topped the first three risks for the year, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2025 released on Wednesday. "Rising geopolitical tensions and a fracturing of trust are driving the global risk landscape," Mirek Dusek, …

Earth crossed this climate milestone in 2024. Effects will be visible in 2025
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Earth crossed this climate milestone in 2024. Effects will be visible in 2025

India Today  

The world has officially crossed a significant climate milestone, with 2024 becoming the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This alarming revelation was confirmed by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on January 10, 2025, highlighting the urgent need for action against climate change. The rising greenhouse gas emissions are propelling …

From Trump to a 'game-changing' lawsuit: Seven big climate and nature moments coming in 2025
2 months, 3 weeks ago

From Trump to a 'game-changing' lawsuit: Seven big climate and nature moments coming in 2025

BBC  

From Trump to a 'game-changing' lawsuit: Seven big climate and nature moments coming in 2025 Getty Images Some key events coming up in 2025 have game-changing potential for our planet. Speaking in his New Year's message in late December, secretary-general of the United Nations António Guterres said that the world is witnessing "climate breakdown – in real time". Getty Images …

UN declares ‘decade of deadly heat’, calls for action against climate breakdown
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3 months ago

UN declares ‘decade of deadly heat’, calls for action against climate breakdown

Hindustan Times  

The world has endured a “decade of deadly heat”, with 2024 capping 10 years of unprecedented temperatures, the UN has said. 'I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat,' says UN chief In his new year message, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last decade, …

Humanity is failing to meet its climate change goals. Here's what experts say we can still do
3 months ago

Humanity is failing to meet its climate change goals. Here's what experts say we can still do

Salon  

Last month the Copernicus Climate Change Service, an organization run by the European Union to monitor global heating, revealed that Earth was on track to surpass the 1.5º C threshold. Many people understand the stakes: climate change threatens to kill billions of humans and wipe out millions of species, pushing the definition of “habitability” to the brink. The overwhelming scientific …

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024
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3 months ago

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024

India Today  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Climate myopia: This year’s CoP was a big disappointment but small surprise
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate myopia: This year’s CoP was a big disappointment but small surprise

Live Mint  

The 29th Conference of the Parties to Climate Change came to an end on 24 November 2024 with deep disappointment on the outcomes—not just on finance, but on most other aspects of the agenda. With grossly inadequate mitigation of the crisis, the climate finance that developing countries can legitimately asl for will increase exponentially, leading to continued disappointment from a …

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is
4 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is

LA Times  

To the editor: Climate change is the biggest threat facing us? Soon, that list may include the leaders of North Korea and Iran — and who knows how many others as the nuclear genie multiplies throughout the world? It is long past time for thought leaders to wake up to the world’s most urgent threat and get a real conversation …

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100
4 months, 1 week ago

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100

Daily Mail  

A terrifying new study has predicted exactly how many people will die from climate change by 2100. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry used advanced numerical simulations to estimate the mortality attributable to air pollution and extreme temperatures. Their analysis indicates that a staggering 30 million people could perish by the end of the century thanks to climate …

Action against climate change ‘robust and will endure’ Trump years, UN climate chief tells COP29
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Action against climate change ‘robust and will endure’ Trump years, UN climate chief tells COP29

Firstpost  

Trump’s election sweep has cast a long shadow over proceedings in Azerbaijan, with concerns that the imminent US withdrawal from the landmark 2015 Paris deal could undermine ambition around the negotiating table Participating world leaders and delegates arrive for a family photo during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku. AFP Global action on climate change “is robust and …

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health

China Daily  

Climate change is emerging as one of the most severe threats to humanity, with intensifying global warming leading to more frequent and extreme weather events, causing water and food scarcities, disrupting the natural and social systems that underpin human health, exacerbating inequality, and hindering economic growth. The impacts of climate change on human health are complex and diverse, which can …

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Extreme weather poses threat to people's health

China Daily  

Climate change is emerging as one of the most severe threats to humanity, with intensifying global warming leading to more frequent and extreme weather events, causing water and food scarcities, disrupting the natural and social systems that underpin human health, exacerbating inequality, and hindering economic growth. The impacts of climate change on human health are complex and diverse, which can …

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion
4 months, 3 weeks ago

A shadow ‘financial crisis’ has cost the world $2 trillion

CNN  

CNN — Last month, two major storms, Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, caused a total of between $51.5 billion and $81.5 billion of property damage, mostly to Southeastern US states, according to estimates from CoreLogic. The report from the International Chamber of Commerce, which comes as the United Nations Climate Change Conference begins in Azerbaijan this week, estimated that the …

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels
5 months ago

Health risks of climate change reach record-breaking levels

China Daily  

By Jonathan Powell | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-10-31 21:02 Children play at an improvised soccer field in the dry area of Lake Tefe, amid what the national disaster monitoring agency Cemaden has already called Brazil's worst drought since at least the 1950s, in Tefe, Amazonas State, Brazil October 18, 2024. People worldwide faced an unprecedented 50 extra days of health-threatening …

John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"
9 months, 1 week ago

John Kerry warns that Project 2025 would be "absolutely unimaginable and destructive"

Salon  

During a sweltering rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 9, former President Donald Trump complained to his supporters about "sweating like a dog" in the triple-digit heat. Because climate change is breaking temperature records all over the world, one might have assumed that the aspiring leader's next act would have been to express concern for the other people at …

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat
1 year ago

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat

Al Jazeera  

The World Meteorological Organization warns there is a ‘high probability’ that 2024 will be another record-hot year. The United Nations’ weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-breaking increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and sea ice. “Never have we been so close – albeit on a …

Climate change threatens EU with mass deaths and huge costs: Report
1 year ago

Climate change threatens EU with mass deaths and huge costs: Report

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds of thousands of lives and more than $1 trillion in losses are threatened unless urgent action is taken. “Hundreds of thousands of people would die from heat waves, and economic losses from coastal floods alone could exceed 1 trillion euros per year,” the report read. “If decisive action is not taken now, most climate risks identified could reach critical …

Davos 2024: Extreme weather and misinformation top global risks
1 year, 2 months ago

Davos 2024: Extreme weather and misinformation top global risks

India Today  

Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of years, a World Economic Forum survey released on Wednesday said. While extreme weather was identified as the bigger risk in 2024, misinformation and disinformation came second and were found to be the most severe global risk over the next two …

How the climate crisis hit critical stage in 2023
1 year, 3 months ago

How the climate crisis hit critical stage in 2023

Live Mint  

The word ‘permacrisis’, was voted the word of the year for 2022. It seemed about right, given the fact that people around the world seemed to be stumbling from one crisis to another, be it war, disease, climate impacts or economic devastation. In fact, while December continues to be above average in terms of heat, June to November’s global heat …

2023 set to be hottest year ever: UN
1 year, 4 months ago

2023 set to be hottest year ever: UN

The Hindu  

This year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, the UN said on November 30, demanding urgent action to rein in global warming and stem the havoc following in its wake. The UN's World Meteorological Organization warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving "a trail of devastation and despair". The WMO …

Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges: UN
1 year, 4 months ago

Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges: UN

Al Jazeera  

UN warns world ‘out of road’ for limiting warming to 1.5C ahead of COP28 meeting in Dubai. The world’s emissions-cutting pledges are nowhere near enough to curb the effects of climate change, with Earth on track for warming a potentially catastrophic 2.9C this century, the United Nations has warned. Time to ‘step up’ The 2015 Paris Agreement saw countries agree …

World failing to get a grip on the climate crisis, says UN chief on new report
1 year, 4 months ago

World failing to get a grip on the climate crisis, says UN chief on new report

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Even if nations meet all of their current climate commitments, submitted as nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, the 1.5 degrees C global warming threshold will be breached, a new UN report said on Tuesday. FILE The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming, a new international report calculates The report flagged that …

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.
1 year, 4 months ago

World severely off track to limit planet-heating emissions: U.N.

The Hindu  

The world is “failing to get a grip” on climate change, the U.N. warned on November 14, as an assessment of current climate pledges shows only minor progress on reducing emissions this decade. In a report released just weeks before high-stakes climate negotiations, the United Nations climate change organisation said the world was failing to act with sufficient urgency to …

UN chief calls for an “ambition supernova” as nations make minor progress on climate action
1 year, 4 months ago

UN chief calls for an “ambition supernova” as nations make minor progress on climate action

Associated Press  

Countries’ climate action plans are still far behind what’s needed to curb human-caused warming and limit the devastating effects of extreme heat, storms and droughts, but some nations have taken marginal steps toward slashing emissions, a United Nations analysis of national plans found Tuesday. The U.N. climate chief, Simon Stiell, urged that upcoming international climate talks in Dubai become a …

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report
1 year, 4 months ago

‘Every bit matters’: Six key takeaways from the latest U.S. climate report

LA Times  

The dire effects of human-caused climate change are worsening and they threaten to bring more extreme heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires unless urgent actions are taken, scientists warned in a major national report. Efforts to adapt to climate change and curb the burning of fossil fuels have expanded since the last assessment was issued in 2018, the report says, …

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn
1 year, 5 months ago

Planet Earth Is On Life Support, Scientists Warn

Huff Post  

If Earth were a human, it would already be in the emergency room. An international team of scientists on Tuesday issued a new assessment of planetary health that says the world has entered “uncharted climate territory” and that “life on planet Earth is under siege.” The report, published in the journal BioScience, found that 20 of 35 identified “vital signs” …

U.N. says more needed 'on all fronts' to meet climate goals
1 year, 6 months ago

U.N. says more needed 'on all fronts' to meet climate goals

The Hindu  

The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international talks aimed at stemming the climate crisis. "The Paris Agreement has driven near-universal climate action by setting goals and sending signals to the world regarding the urgency of responding to …

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency
55 years, 2 months ago

10 Facts That Prove the World Is in a Climate Emergency

Wired  

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change does not mince its words when describing the disastrous effect that humans are having on the planet. Without very significant reductions in greenhouse gases—beginning immediately—it is very likely that global surface temperatures will exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. There’s more carbon dioxide in our atmosphere than …

Flirting with climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
1 year, 10 months ago

Flirting with climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There’s a two-out-of-three chance …

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate
1 year, 11 months ago

‘A year of extremes’: What World Meteorological Organization’s 2022 report says about the state of global climate

Firstpost  

The UN agency’s 2022 report has some worrying findings about climate change that has fuelled extreme weather events. Published on Friday, the State of Global Climate 2022 report by the World Meteorological Organization makes some worrying revelations about record-high temperatures, melting glaciers and rising pollution. What have the findings of WMO’s report on the state of global climate revealed about …

A climate change survival guide to act on
2 years ago

A climate change survival guide to act on

The Hindu  

This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report cycle, drawing together key findings from its six most recent reports. Some takeaways The report confirms that human activity is ‘unequivocally’ driving global temperature rise, which has reached approximately 1.1° C above pre-industrial levels. Strikingly, it notes that the projected CO2 emissions over …

Five graphics show UN climate report in brutal detail
2 years ago

Five graphics show UN climate report in brutal detail

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. How each generation will experience climate crisis - depending on decisions made this decade open image in gallery What …

Warnings About Humanity’s Future Don’t Get More Dire Than This
2 years ago

Warnings About Humanity’s Future Don’t Get More Dire Than This

Wired  

Today, the plummeting price of renewables is helping humanity decarbonize: Wind energy prices dropped by 55 percent in the 2010s, the new report notes, while solar power and lithium ion batteries got 85 percent cheaper—much cheaper than researchers had anticipated. The report “makes it clear that the world has made some progress on climate change—there is some good news,” says …

Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says
2 years ago

Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

Salon  

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to "secure a liveable future for all." Drawing on the IPCC's previous publications, the report says global temperatures have risen 1.1 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times, and that this warming has "unequivocally" been caused by human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels. …

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future
2 years ago

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future

Al Jazeera  

Hitting the 2015 Paris Agreement temperature goals will require a massive reduction in fossil fuel use and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, IPCC reports say. Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by global warming could be a foretaste as planet-heating fossil fuels put a “liveable” future at …

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action
2 years, 1 month ago

Climate Change ‘Doom Loop’: How to reclaim the narrative of urgent climate action

Live Mint  

The fight to battle climate change and global heating has always been one led by narrative. Despite decades of irrefutable scientific work that has shown the extent to which we are skirting with global disaster, the reality of climate change and its reason—our energy dependence on fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas—needed to overcome the denial and obfuscation of …

Addressing Climate-Related Risks, The Key To Development
2 years, 2 months ago

Addressing Climate-Related Risks, The Key To Development

News 18  

Climate change is a global threat having social, economic and environmental consequences. Generally, climate-related risks may broadly be classified into transitional and physical risks. The transitional risks are those which may arise due to the transition to a low-carbon economy which include technological risks, policy and legal risks, reputational risks and market risks. Tackling climate-related risks may, in utmost circumstances, …

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster
2 years, 2 months ago

Editorial: 2022 brought more heat and pollution. We’re still careening toward climate disaster

LA Times  

New climate data show that 2022 was among the hottest years on record but that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions just keep rising. Another study showed the amount of heat being taken up by Earth’s oceans reached another record high last year. And it’s another stark reminder that despite some recent progress on climate policy, such as the passage of the …

Cost-of-living crisis overshadows ‘unavoidable’ climate action
2 years, 2 months ago

Cost-of-living crisis overshadows ‘unavoidable’ climate action

Al Jazeera  

Rising cost of living, energy and food supply crunches, and heavy national debt threaten to thwart the collective will needed to address the climate crisis, new report says. Climate change is the global economy’s biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems led by a cost-of-living crisis, the World Economic Forum said …

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report
2 years, 2 months ago

90% of humans will suffer extreme heat, drought due to climate change: report

Salon  

If you are reading this article, there is a 9 out of 10 chance that you live somewhere that will experience future extreme heat weather events due to climate change. In an analysis published for the scientific journal Nature Sustainability, Oxford's Professor Louise Slater and Wuhan University's Dr. Jiabo Yin explain that as the planet's temperature continues to rise, there …

Loss and Damage decisions, pitfalls and promises
2 years, 4 months ago

Loss and Damage decisions, pitfalls and promises

The Hindu  

A major takeaway from COP27 in Egypt, as far as loss and damage is concerned, is the decision relating to new funding arrangements focusing on L and D — those particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Past, present and the future In the entire climate change negotiations, the developed countries have consistently opposed being made liable for …

Earth is still 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after the COP27 deal
2 years, 4 months ago

Earth is still 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after the COP27 deal

Daily Mail  

This includes those on phasing out fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions However, some attendees were 'disappointed' by other 'weakened' pledges This will give financial aid to poorer countries more vulnerable to climate change The planet remains 'on the brink of climate catastrophe' after a deal was struck at the end of the COP27 summit yesterday, according to climate experts. …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 4 months ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

Ways climate change and population combine to threaten public health
2 years, 4 months ago

Ways climate change and population combine to threaten public health

The Hindu  

There are questions that worry me profoundly as a population- and environmental-health scientist. These risks all have three things in common: health, climate change and a growing population that the United Nations forecasts will reach 8 billion people around November 15, 2022 – double the population of just 48 years ago. Often, the most vulnerable people in these countries face …

Effects Of Climate Change In The U.S. Already Terrible And Widespread, Report Finds
2 years, 4 months ago

Effects Of Climate Change In The U.S. Already Terrible And Widespread, Report Finds

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The effects of climate change in the United States are already “far-reaching” and getting worse, but there remains hope that a rapid transition to a net zero economy can stave off the worst impacts of a warmer world, according to a sweeping new report. “Americans are feeling the effects of climate change in their everyday lives, as …

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