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网页Green Climate Fund restructures, aiming to become donors’ “partner of choice”. 9 September 2024. Interview GCF chief Mafalda Duarte tells Climate Home how she plans to boost the fund’s impact and position it to secure more resources. Latest news. Become a …
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网页London airport expansion spotlights danger of “false hope” Jet Zero strategy. 23 August 2024. The UK government decided expansion is compatible with its plan to cut aviation emissions, raising questions about its reliance on unproven techno-fixes …
Five takeaways from the IPCC's 2021 climate science report
网页2021年9月8日 · Here we round up five key messages from this landmark report. 1. We are set to pass 1.5C warming by 2040. The warming of recent decades has not been seen for millennia, is happening rapidly and almost everywhere on earth and has reversed a long-term global cooling trend. We need to go back around 125,000 years to find evidence of warmer global ...
Nine must-read climate change stories of 2021 from around the …
网页2021年12月28日 · Photo: Alejandra Loreto. 5.Ocean fire exposes weak regulation of Mexico’s oil and gas sector. In July, a photo of the sea on fire in the Gulf of Mexico went viral, becoming an emblem of all that is wrong with the global economy’s dependence on fossil fuels. Isabelle Gerretsen looked at the story behind the image.
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网页The UN can set a new course on “critical” transition minerals. A high-level panel is working to define principles for responsible mining, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in September. 1. 2. 3. ›. Latest climate change news, analysis, commentary, video and podcasts.
As 1.5C overshoot looms, a high-level commission will ask: what …
网页2022年4月22日 · A temporary overshoot of climate goals is dangerous for human societies and ecosystems. “Many human and natural systems will face additional severe risks, compared to remaining below 1.5C,” the IPCC’s impact report warned. Some impacts, such as ice sheet and glacier melt and sea level rise, “will be irreversible”.
China-US announce deal at Cop26 to accelerate climate action this …
网页2021年10月11日 · China and the US have announced a deal to strengthen their cooperation on climate action and accelerate emissions cuts this decade, in a boost to the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow, UK. The world’s two biggest emitters released a surprise joint statement on Wednesday evening setting out their intention to …
Around the world, climate change committees are steering government action
网页2021年7月30日 · It set up an independent climate change committee to advise successive governments on what emissions targets to set and how to meet them. Gordon Brown, prime minister at the time, tasked the committee with examining whether the UK’s target to reduce emissions by 60% by 2050 “should be even stronger still”. The answer came back: yes.
Five takeaways from the UN's 2022 climate impacts report
网页2022年2月28日 · The UN’s climate science body today released a major report on the impacts that climate change will have on humans and the planet, and how we may adapt to them.. It is the first such assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2014 and reflects large advances in scientific understanding of the effect global heating is having on us all.
Biden and Xi unshackle Cop27 climate teams to formalise talks
网页2022年11月14日 · The US and China are set to resume formal climate cooperation after their leaders Joe Biden and Xi Jinping held a four-hour late night meeting in Bali, Indonesia. China had suspended climate talks after the leader of the US congress’s lower house, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan in August.
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