The Covid pandemic is an unexpected chance to tackle the climate crisis – here’s what we should do
4 years ago

The Covid pandemic is an unexpected chance to tackle the climate crisis – here’s what we should do

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement on the climate crisis, a promising movement for carbon neutrality is taking shape. Every country, city, financial institution and company should adopt plans for net zero – and act now to get on the right path to that goal, which means cutting global emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 compared with 2010 levels. In advance of next November’s UN climate conference in Glasgow, governments are obligated by the Paris Agreement to be ever more ambitious every five years and submit strengthened commitments known as Nationally Determined Contributions. It is time to put a price on carbon; end fossil fuel subsidies and finance; stop building new coal-power plants; shift the tax burden from income to carbon, from taxpayers to polluters; make climate-related financial risk disclosures mandatory; and integrate the goal of carbon neutrality into all economic and fiscal decision-making.

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

Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn
2 months, 1 week ago

Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn

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. “It will, however, amplify climate warming, and can also strengthen precipitation change and extreme events in many regions.” This …

Decarbonisation must not cause ‘undue disturbance’ to public, says Tory MP
1 year, 7 months ago

Decarbonisation must not cause ‘undue disturbance’ to public, says Tory MP

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 public will not accept changes needed to stop climate change if they cause “undue …

The next pandemic is coming – and the world isn’t ready
1 year, 8 months ago

The next pandemic is coming – and the world isn’t ready

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One thing is clear – despite …

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 …

Cop27: At Cop26, I asked world leaders to open their hearts – now they must open their eyes
2 years, 2 months ago

Cop27: At Cop26, I asked world leaders to open their hearts – now they must open their eyes

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 one priority of Cop27 must be for leaders to ensure that finance is mobilised urgently through a loss …

Failure to ditch fossil fuels putting health of ‘all people alive’ at growing risk, major report warns
2 years, 2 months ago

Failure to ditch fossil fuels putting health of ‘all people alive’ at growing risk, major report warns

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. Multiple crises are being exacerbated by the impacts of fossil fuel usage, putting additional strain on health systems around …

Op-Ed: Climate change is nudging us toward the next pandemic
2 years, 3 months ago

Op-Ed: Climate change is nudging us toward the next pandemic

LA Times  

The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Much like climate change’s effects on our environment, its effects on our health seem insidious — until they aren’t. A climate in flux brings us closer to thousands of potentially destructive viruses — a clear cause for concern, given that we are reaching nearly three years …

Does the climate crisis fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to
2 years, 5 months ago

Does the climate crisis fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to

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. Most people don’t want to read depressing news all the time, according to research – they just switch to …

Greenwashing ‘creates false confidence about climate crisis’
2 years, 6 months ago

Greenwashing ‘creates false confidence about climate crisis’

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. Achieving climate resilience and nature recovery will require “robust, consistent and trusted data”, Emma Howard Boyd is expected to …

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

The best climate change books that help you to understand the crisis

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Today is Earth Day 2022 – which means the …

‘At a crossroads’ to a liveable future: UN report urges rapid action
2 years, 9 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, …

Fragile countries must be supported in tackling the climate crisis
3 years, 2 months ago

Fragile countries must be supported in tackling the climate crisis

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. As global warming threatens to spiral out of control, bringing with it increasingly extreme weather and climate shocks, the …

Cop26: Gen Z climate activists on how we can save the planet
3 years, 2 months ago

Cop26: Gen Z climate activists on how we can save the planet

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. “Over the next 30 years we will see our futures destroyed due to the selfishness and lack of action …

Less meat and fewer flights needed to tackle climate change, world scientists say
3 years, 2 months ago

Less meat and fewer flights needed to tackle climate change, world scientists say

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. Sir Patrick Vallance said that along with “rapid, urgent and sustained action” from world leaders to address the problem, …

Climate action cannot wait for pandemic to end, medical journals warn
3 years, 4 months ago

Climate action cannot wait for pandemic to end, medical journals warn

India Today  

Global warming is already affecting people's health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot be put on hold while the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, medical journals across the globe warned on Monday. "Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world," read an editorial published in more than 220 …

Bhumi Pednekar on World Nature Conservation Day: ‘Hoping climate change issue hasn’t taken backseat with governments'
3 years, 5 months ago

Bhumi Pednekar on World Nature Conservation Day: ‘Hoping climate change issue hasn’t taken backseat with governments'

Firstpost  

“Even though mother nature got some time to heal, the looming danger has not yet been averted,” Bhumi Pednekar said of climate change Bhumi Pednekar spoke about the social media initiative Climate Warrior that aims at raising awareness towards protecting nature. On World Nature Conservation Day today, Bhumi said she hoped that the pandemic hasn’t made governments across the world …

Climate change should be treated as emergency like Covid pandemic, study says
3 years, 5 months ago

Climate change should be treated as emergency like Covid pandemic, study says

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. Participants in the study observed that climate change, "despite being more deadly than the virus", has "failed to elicit …

Include funds for climate adaptation projects in post COVID-19 recovery urges environment group
3 years, 11 months ago

Include funds for climate adaptation projects in post COVID-19 recovery urges environment group

Firstpost  

An organization that promotes efforts to adapt the environment to cope with the effects of climate change is calling on governments and financiers around the globe to include funding for adaptation projects in their COVID-19 recovery spending. “As governments begin spending trillions of dollars to recover from the pandemic, the world has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a more resilient, …

Global carbon emissions dropped a record 7% due to COVID-19. Don’t count on it to last
4 years ago

Global carbon emissions dropped a record 7% due to COVID-19. Don’t count on it to last

LA Times  

The 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles with unusually light traffic on March 20, while the state was under coronavirus stay-at-home orders. The COVID-19 pandemic reduced global greenhouse gas emissions by a record 7% this year, according to new estimates released Thursday by an international group of scientists. Le Quéré said the emissions drop from the pandemic could be fleeting …

Lessons learned from COVID-19 can help us fight climate change
4 years, 1 month ago

Lessons learned from COVID-19 can help us fight climate change

Al Jazeera  

The pressing need to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and make it available to everyone everywhere to bring an end to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic resulted in a rare collaboration between world governments, scientists and private drug manufacturers. Scientists say we have a critical and rapidly closing window of opportunity to curb the devastating effects of climate change …

Global warming bigger threat than coronavirus: Red Cross
4 years, 1 month ago

Global warming bigger threat than coronavirus: Red Cross

Al Jazeera  

Red Cross says the world has been hit by more than 100 climate change-related disasters since the WHO declared the pandemic. The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as is to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross says, warning that global warming poses a greater threat than COVID-19. ‘No vaccine for climate change’ But, he warned, …

David Attenborough warns coronavirus pandemic is threat to global climate action
4 years, 2 months ago

David Attenborough warns coronavirus pandemic is threat to global climate 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 94-year-old naturalist and broadcaster also threw his support behind Greta Thunberg’s school strike for climate movement, saying she …

‘I believe we are too late’: Rod Stewart says planet cannot be saved from climate change and lets rip on Trump
4 years, 3 months ago

‘I believe we are too late’: Rod Stewart says planet cannot be saved from climate change and lets rip on Trump

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 Rod Stewart has dubbed Donald Trump that “p**** in the White House" for pulling out …

Human exploitation of nature is driving pandemics like coronavirus, say UN and WHO
4 years, 6 months ago

Human exploitation of nature is driving pandemics like coronavirus, say UN and WHO

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 Humanity’s broken relationship with nature has led to the coronavirus and other pandemics will follow, …

Recovery must take into account the climate crisis
4 years, 7 months ago

Recovery must take into account the climate crisis

Hindustan Times  

As the coronavirus disease continues to engulf the world, the other big agenda of our time — the climate crisis — has begun to re-emerge from the shadows. Climate champions — NGOs, think tanks, academia, activists around the world — should produce evidence to demonstrate to governments the long-term economic and resilience gains from economic stimulus programmes that prioritise investments …

It Took A Pandemic To Prove Individual Actions Alone Won't Solve The Climate Crisis
4 years, 8 months ago

It Took A Pandemic To Prove Individual Actions Alone Won't Solve The Climate Crisis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Absent any sort of end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic — or even the hint of an exit strategy from U.S. leaders, aside from a willingness to sacrifice lives on the altar of capitalism — a lot of people are, understandably, looking for a silver lining. To reach net zero by 2030 — or even 2050, …

Mailbag: Op-ed likening coronavirus and climate crises made excellent points
4 years, 8 months ago

Mailbag: Op-ed likening coronavirus and climate crises made excellent points

LA Times  

Jordan Pritzl of Aliso Viejo, left, and Merina Addonigio, both from Suka University, hold protest signs during the Climate Strike climate change protest, at Main Beach Park in Laguna Beach in September 2019. Alongside the troubling reports of people protesting sensible, medically based restrictions that safeguard our public health, I was heartened to read a science-based commentary comparing the current …

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn

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. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity.” They warn: “Rampant …

We need to tackle two crises at once — Coronavirus and climate change, says activist Greta Thunberg
4 years, 8 months ago

We need to tackle two crises at once — Coronavirus and climate change, says activist Greta Thunberg

Firstpost  

UN chief echoed Thunberg’s words urging governments to use their economic responses to the pandemic to tackle climate change. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined calls for a combined effort to tackle coronavirus and the climate crisis, saying the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday was the time to choose a “new way forward”. Together U.N. chief Antonio Guterres echoed …

COVID-19 and the crumbling world order
4 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19 and the crumbling world order

The Hindu  

COVID-19 will fundamentally transform the world as we know it: the world order, its balance of power, traditional conceptions of national security, and the future of globalisation. The pre-existing structural weakness of the global order and the COVID-19 shock will further feed states’ protectionist tendencies fueled by hypernationalism. Instead, as former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon warns, “we are headed …

Will we learn lessons for tackling climate change from our current crisis?
4 years, 9 months ago

Will we learn lessons for tackling climate change from our current crisis?

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Ban Ki-moon served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and Patrick Verkooijen is CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation, a group that seeks to facilitate climate adaptation by working with the public and private sectors. Inger Andersen, head of the United Nations Environment Programme, says Covid-19 is a “clear warning shot” given that 75% of …

Coronavirus: UK's COP 26 international climate summit postponed until 2021
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: UK's COP 26 international climate summit postponed until 2021

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Cop26 climate talks have been postponed until 2021 - …

The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis
4 years, 9 months ago

The coronavirus outbreak is part of the climate change crisis

Al Jazeera  

Therefore, climate action should be central to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These sweeping and unprecedented measures taken by the government and international institutions could not but make some of us wonder about another global emergency that needs urgent action – climate change. In fact, one may argue that the pandemic is part of climate change and therefore, our …

Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like
4 years, 9 months ago

Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like

LA Times  

Environmental factors including deforestation, air pollution and urbanization contribute to the severity of pandemics like COVID-19. “We can’t really solve the climate crisis without having support for people’s healthcare, and support for people being able to survive wage-wise and job-wise,” she said. And whether it’s disease prevention or climate change, Skelton said, “the gross amount of money spent, and the …

Here’s Why We’ll Never Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As The Coronavirus
4 years, 9 months ago

Here’s Why We’ll Never Treat The Climate Crisis With The Same Urgency As The Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The vast majority of climate stories these days are various takes on how to view the issue through the lens of the coronavirus and vice versa. Time magazine cautions that coronavirus gives us a window into pandemics that catastrophic climate change will bring, except they’ll likely come alongside extreme weather events, too. “Comparing coronavirus to climate change …

The world is coming together to fight coronavirus. It can do the same for the climate crisis
4 years, 9 months ago

The world is coming together to fight coronavirus. It can do the same for the climate crisis

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on March 18 and has been updated to reflect the latest numbers on confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths from Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center. CNN — While the coronavirus pandemic and climate change are inherently different issues, they share two important characteristics: both are global crises that threaten the lives of millions …

Why We Panic About The Coronavirus But Not About The Climate Crisis
4 years, 9 months ago

Why We Panic About The Coronavirus But Not About The Climate Crisis

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING We face two global crises. We spoke to six experts in climate change to try to understand why people cannot muster the kind of strong and wide-reaching action for the environment that they can for the coronavirus. Lise Van Susteren Lise Van Susteren Lise Van Susteren, a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist with a special interest in the psychological …

Climate crisis: Citizens’ assembly to decide tough measures to achieve net zero emissions commitment
4 years, 11 months ago

Climate crisis: Citizens’ assembly to decide tough measures to achieve net zero emissions commitment

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A citizens’ assembly will decide the tough measures required for the …

Hundreds of climate sceptics to mount international campaign to stop net-zero targets being made law
5 years, 3 months ago

Hundreds of climate sceptics to mount international campaign to stop net-zero targets being made law

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World facing ‘acute risk of devastating disease pandemics’ which would kill millions, WHO warns
5 years, 3 months ago

World facing ‘acute risk of devastating disease pandemics’ which would kill millions, WHO warns

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a new body assembled by the World Bank and the …

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