How to defuse the climate change time bomb
1 year, 9 months ago

How to defuse the climate change time bomb

Live Mint  

“The climate time bomb is ticking. Prepared by the UN’s top climate science body, the IPCC, the Assessment Report 6 cycle formally came to an end with the publication of the concise Climate Change 2023 report on 20 March. This fact was firmly established by one of the special reports of the AR6 cycle—the so-called “1.5-degree report” from 2018—which fundamentally reset the frame of reference for climate action. “We don’t have a dynamic and ongoing process on risk assessment, or on climate science, or on greenhouse gas inventories,” she says, adding that such reports would also facilitate cross-learning between states, cities and regions. “It has been a very interesting, exciting, overwhelming process for me as a person and a scientist,” says Pathak, “It has helped me grow as a person.” Mukherji’s IPCC journey began as a review editor for the 2019 special report on the effects of climate change on the ocean and cryosphere.

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Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
4 weeks ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 31, 2024. At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of …

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
4 weeks ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

A view shows a sign of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference with a backdrop of the cityscape in Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct 31, 2024. At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of …

Letters to the Editor: Climate change is a global threat, but it isn’t the worst one. This is
4 weeks, 1 day 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 …

2015-2024 declared hottest decade ever as COP29 kicks off in Baku
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1 month, 1 week ago

2015-2024 declared hottest decade ever as COP29 kicks off in Baku

India Today  

As COP29 convenes, the global community is met with a dire warning from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. The WMO’s State of the Climate 2024 Update issued a red alert, pointing at the swift acceleration of climate change within a single generation. From January to September 2024, global mean surface air temperatures were 1.54°C above pre-industrial levels, a significant increase …

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained
7 months ago

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained

The Hindu  

Just a couple of decades ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argued that individual weather events could not be attributed to climate change. The science has since evolved, albeit with all its attendant uncertainties, and now we regularly hear of researchers having been able to attribute some individual extreme events to climate change. Economically developing countries, in particular …

IPCC work on seventh climate assessment threatened by shorter timelines | Explained
10 months, 2 weeks ago

IPCC work on seventh climate assessment threatened by shorter timelines | Explained

The Hindu  

Established in 1988, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been bringing out climate change assessment reports on a periodic basis. The second GST is due in 2028 and submissions so far from member countries have requested the IPCC to publish its AR7 assessment reports before the stocktake. The full assessment reports – which nearly all the member countries …

A climate conference hosted by an oil-rich country. That’s just one of the contradictions at the Dubai talks
1 year ago

A climate conference hosted by an oil-rich country. That’s just one of the contradictions at the Dubai talks

Associated Press  

The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said. “So things aren’t as bad as they could have been or as we worried they might be 20 years ago, but they’re still far from where we need …

Climate 'countdown clock' report launched ahead of key UN talks
1 year, 2 months ago

Climate 'countdown clock' report launched ahead of key UN talks

The Hindu  

Top scientists have launched a yearly report series to plug knowledge gaps ahead of crunch climate talks, with their global warming "countdown clock" vying for the attention of world leaders and ordinary citizens alike. "We cannot afford to wait" for the next IPCC assessment report in this "decade of action", said Peter Thorne, a professor of physical geography at Maynooth …

Are we headed into a climate hell? Is IPCC the one to save us?
1 year, 4 months ago

Are we headed into a climate hell? Is IPCC the one to save us?

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 03, 2023 15:24 IST - 11 MINS READ One cannot go anywhere in the world without being bombarded with information about climate change, extreme events, and other disasters. Climate change messaging for the developing world We also need to ask if a country like India or the developing world at large needs scary messages without regional and …

Climate Clock ticks down: Five years left to limit temperature rise to 1.5C
1 year, 5 months ago

Climate Clock ticks down: Five years left to limit temperature rise to 1.5C

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. Read our privacy policy The so-called “Climate Clock” looming over New York’s Union Square passed a critical milestone on …

We need decisive climate action, can COP28 deliver?
1 year, 8 months ago

We need decisive climate action, can COP28 deliver?

Al Jazeera  

Climate scientists are warning yet again that we are off target on climate action; COP28 can offer an opportunity to change that. But COP28 has the potential to achieve even more than that; it can become a watershed where COP meetings transition from multilateral negotiations to bold decision-making to advance climate action. While being a bona fide climate pioneer and …

A climate change survival guide to act on
1 year, 9 months 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 …

Final solution: The Hindu Editorial on giving earth a chance to escape climate change effects
1 year, 9 months ago

Final solution: The Hindu Editorial on giving earth a chance to escape climate change effects

The Hindu  

The influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made public its final ‘Synthesis’ report, which is part of the Sixth Assessment Cycle. Since 1990, when the IPCC began publicising its compilation of global scientific research linking greenhouse gas emissions with changes in weather and climate, the evidence that human actions are nudging the world closer to irreversible cataclysms has only …

World’s scientists say 1.5C still achievable but ‘humanity on thin ice’
1 year, 9 months ago

World’s scientists say 1.5C still achievable but ‘humanity on thin ice’

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. Read our privacy policy After five years of meetings, reports and debate, the world’s scientific community has delivered an …

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future
1 year, 9 months ago

U.N. panel calls for rapid action against climate change to secure a liveable future

The Hindu  

Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health and there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report on March 20, 2023. “Mainstreaming effective and equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages for nature and people, …

Climate scientists deliver final warning: Time is running out
1 year, 9 months ago

Climate scientists deliver final warning: Time is running out

Live Mint  

Consider this the final warning: Climate scientists stated unequivocally today that rising greenhouse gas emissions have to be checked immediately. The Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report is a culmination of a cycle of reports that started in 2018, which states clearly that in order to limit the effect of global warming to minimum, the world has to cut emissions by …

Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing, says IPCC
1 year, 9 months ago

Window of opportunity to preserve liveable climate rapidly closing, says IPCC

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. Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said there needs to be drastic and deep GHG emissions cuts …

UN calls for rapid, ambitious action to tackle climate crisis
1 year, 9 months ago

UN calls for rapid, ambitious action to tackle climate crisis

Al Jazeera  

IPCC’s world-leading scientists say resources and knowledge are sufficient to tackle the global climate crisis. The world has the tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure a sustainable future if more ambitious actions are taken, a United Nations report has said, noting that actions taken so far are not enough to tackle the growing threats posed by climate …

The UN’s climate handbook for a ‘liveable’ future
1 year, 9 months 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
1 year, 10 months 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 …

Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27?
2 years, 1 month ago

Explained | Why are talks on 1.5°C at a cliff edge at COP27?

The Hindu  

The story so far: After the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change of 2015, the focus is on voluntary national actions to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in average global temperature to well below 2°C and as close to 1.5°C as possible by the end of the century. But the scientific community is losing …

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change
2 years, 1 month ago

What the latest IPCC science says about climate change

Al Jazeera  

COP27 delegates will be relying on UN climate science agency studies to make decisions about future energy plans. At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the UN climate science agency to sway decisions about future energy plans and global warming trajectories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change produces reports roughly …

UN sums up climate science: world heading in wrong direction
2 years, 3 months ago

UN sums up climate science: world heading in wrong direction

Associated Press  

GENEVA — With weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming, the world is “heading in the wrong direction,” the United Nations says in a new report that pulls together the latest science on climate change. “This year’s United in Science report shows climate impacts heading into uncharted territories of destruction.” “Yet each year we double-down …

IPCC reports are a climate science beacon. So why do these scientists say they have to stop?
2 years, 3 months ago

IPCC reports are a climate science beacon. So why do these scientists say they have to stop?

ABC  

In 1990, scientists from around the world published a report that spelled out that the climate was changing and that we — human beings — were the cause. Late last year, Australian and New Zealand-based scientists Tim Smith, Iain White, and Bruce Glavovic published a paper in the journal Climate and Development, called "The Tragedy of Climate Change Science". "We …

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’
2 years, 4 months ago

‘Climate endgame’: Potential for environmental crisis to end humanity is ‘dangerously underexplored’

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. “There are plenty of reasons to believe climate change could become catastrophic, even at modest levels of warming,” said …

5 authentic sources to keep yourself updated on climate change
2 years, 5 months ago

5 authentic sources to keep yourself updated on climate change

Live Mint  

A 2021 study by The Conversation and YouGov on 1,722 respondents living in the UK found that 50% of them couldn’t identify misinformation about climate change online, and a staggering 44% were unable to identify that they had been exposed to misinformation in the first place. “Every falsehood, distortion, and conspiracy theory about climate change is an obstacle to meaningful …

Explained | What are the takeaways from the latest IPCC report on climate change?
2 years, 8 months ago

Explained | What are the takeaways from the latest IPCC report on climate change?

The Hindu  

The story so far: In its latest assessment report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has laid out several scenarios on the steps that ought to be taken to keep temperatures below 2°C. According to the scientists, limiting warming to around 1.5°C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by …

What the latest IPCC climate report has to say
2 years, 8 months ago

What the latest IPCC climate report has to say

Live Mint  

The fossil fuel age is effectively over. This is the message of the third major climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the UN’s apex climate science body. The report, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation Of Climate Change, was released on 4 April, hard on the heels of two earlier reports: one in August last year that conclusively proved …

‘At a crossroads’ to a liveable future: UN report urges rapid action
2 years, 8 months ago

‘At a crossroads’ to a liveable future: UN report urges rapid action

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. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change science body has released the third part of its sixth assessment report, …

Landmark UN climate report ‘agreed’ after negotiations overrun
2 years, 8 months ago

Landmark UN climate report ‘agreed’ after negotiations overrun

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. Read our privacy policy Scientists and government officials have reportedly reached agreement on the third chapter of a definitive …

Calls for shift from fossil fuels as UN prepares to release new climate report
2 years, 8 months ago

Calls for shift from fossil fuels as UN prepares to release new climate report

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. The latest report from UN science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sets out solutions needed to curb …

IPCC report shows nations need to act
2 years, 9 months ago

IPCC report shows nations need to act

Hindustan Times  

We know that the world is running out of carbon space, time and options to avert the catastrophic impacts of a warming climate. In the 2021 IPCC assessment report of its Working Group 1 on the science of the climate crisis, the message was that it is “code red” for the planet. IPCC’s Working Group II also has, for the …

NSW and Queensland flooded the same week a major climate report was released. We need to talk about it
2 years, 9 months ago

NSW and Queensland flooded the same week a major climate report was released. We need to talk about it

ABC  

As the rain bucketed down 10 days ago, residents of a nearby house in our neighbourhood in the outskirts of Brisbane were woken by a loud cracking. Explore Mt Resilience Go on a "virtual field trip" to an Australian town that's been designed around the impacts of climate change and extreme weather in ABC Science's award-winning AR project. Some of …

Climate emergency unfolding in 'deadly ways': IPCC
2 years, 9 months ago

Climate emergency unfolding in 'deadly ways': IPCC

The Hindu  

A stark picture of an unfolding climate crisis that is especially impacting vulnerable communities fills the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. "Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership," said U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres. Themed …

Editorial: Climate catastrophe is already here. What will it take for the world to act?
2 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: Climate catastrophe is already here. What will it take for the world to act?

LA Times  

A new United Nations report blares dire warnings of the escalating effects of climate change: Our planet is no longer on the brink of catastrophe; the catastrophe is well underway. In a sweeping assessment released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scientists from across the globe found that climate change is causing “dangerous and widespread disruption” to billions …

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report
2 years, 9 months ago

Half the world threatened by climate crisis: Latest IPCC report

Hindustan Times  

At least half the world’s population lives in regions vulnerable to the climate crisis, which has become complex, with several interacting factors likely to increase food prices, reduce household incomes, and lead to malnutrition and climate-related deaths, especially in tropical regions, according to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was released Monday. Mass mortality events …

The climate crisis worsens
2 years, 9 months ago

The climate crisis worsens

Hindustan Times  

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, released on Monday, is an unvarnished account of the expanding footprint of the climate crisis on the world. Mass mortality events on land and ocean; first climate-driven extinctions; loss of hundreds of local species; death and disease due to extreme heat are some of the …

Over three billion people vulnerable to climate change: IPCC report
2 years, 9 months ago

Over three billion people vulnerable to climate change: IPCC report

India Today  

The United Nations on Monday released the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that stated that 3.6 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change. The report identifying human-induced action as the prime cause of climate change stated that it is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. People …

UN’s landmark IPCC report for first time will include impacts of climate crisis on mental health
2 years, 10 months ago

UN’s landmark IPCC report for first time will include impacts of climate crisis on mental health

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. Don’t expect a flowery valentine to the planet: instead an activist group predicted “a nightmare painted in the dry …

UN to finalize science report on how warming hits home hard
2 years, 10 months ago

UN to finalize science report on how warming hits home hard

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Scientists and governments met Monday to finalize a major U.N. report on how global warming disrupts people’s lives, their natural environment and the Earth itself. Don’t expect a flowery valentine to the planet: instead an activist group predicted “a nightmare painted in the dry language of science.” The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a collection of …

Jordan Peterson says he got his climate info from an Exxon-funded climate denir
2 years, 10 months ago

Jordan Peterson says he got his climate info from an Exxon-funded climate denir

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. “And that’s a huge problem when you’re trying to model over 100 years because the errors compound just like …

Climate change is an emergency for everyone, everywhere
3 years, 1 month ago

Climate change is an emergency for everyone, everywhere

Al Jazeera  

A devastating convergence of conflict and climate change is driving displacement and making life even more precarious for those forced to flee. Ninety percent of refugees under UNHCR’s mandate, and 70 percent of people displaced within their home countries by conflict and violence, come from countries on the front lines of the climate emergency. What we are seeing now is …

‘Code red for humanity’: 5 key climate change facts
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Code red for humanity’: 5 key climate change facts

Al Jazeera  

Effects of human-caused global warming are happening now and will only worsen if action to decarbonise is not urgently taken, researchers say. As the COP26 climate change conference gets under way in Glasgow on Sunday, world leaders will likely have their last chance to curtail the deadliest consequences of human-induced planetary warming. Here are five things to know about the …

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks
3 years, 1 month ago

‘Everything is at stake’ as world gathers for climate talks

Associated Press  

More than one world leader says humanity’s future, even survival, hangs in the balance when international officials meet in Scotland to try to accelerate efforts to curb climate change. We cannot drink oil, and we cannot breathe so-called natural gas.” Her words were echoed by a man tasked with steering one of the world’s richest economic blocs through the climate …

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real
3 years, 3 months ago

IPCC Report 2021: Climate change is very real

The Hindu  

Several of Bihar’s 38 districts are flood-hit — people have lost lives, homes continue to get damaged, and countless agricultural fields have been inundated. These are numbing data, as numbing as the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ’s Sixth Assessment Report. It adds that these temperature changes are further ‘amplified at the regional scale by regional processes such as …

IPCC calls for immediate action rather than rhetorical references to a “climate crisis”
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC calls for immediate action rather than rhetorical references to a “climate crisis”

The Hindu  

The recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, titled “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”, is undoubtedly an important advance in the assessment of the current state of the climate system, of how the world’s climate got to where it is today, how the climate is likely to respond to greenhouse gas emissions in the near- …

IPCC report: 14 ways to fight the climate crisis after publication of ‘Code Red’ warning
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC report: 14 ways to fight the climate crisis after publication of ‘Code Red’ warning

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. Read our privacy policy The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, considered the most robust accounting of the climate …

IPCC report 2021: World’s 1.5C temperature goal slipping beyond reach without urgent action, warn hundreds of scientists
3 years, 4 months ago

IPCC report 2021: World’s 1.5C temperature goal slipping beyond reach without urgent action, warn hundreds of scientists

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. The group of 234 scientists from 66 countries found “it is more likely than not” that the world will …

Eight key takeaways from the IPCC report that prove we need to put in the work to fight climate change
3 years, 4 months ago

Eight key takeaways from the IPCC report that prove we need to put in the work to fight climate change

Firstpost  

The new IPCC report is “a code red for humanity”, says UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “This report tells us that recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid and intensifying, unprecedented in thousands of years,” said IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett. Michael Mann told the Independent the effects of climate change will be felt in all corners of the world and …

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