The Carbon Brief Profile: Canada
In the latest article in a series on how some of the world’s key emitters are responding to climate change, Carbon Brief considers Canada’s relationship…
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London and NYC Mayors Call on Every Major City in the World to Divest From Climate-Destroying Fossil Fuels
“Instead of having to move cities, let’s move money!” Ahead of a forum for local leaders from across the globe scheduled for March, Mayors Bill…
National greenhouse gas reporting needs an overhaul – it’s time to directly measure the atmosphere
How much greenhouse gas is emitted by any individual country? With global emissions of carbon dioxide hitting a record of 36.8 billion tonnes this…
Mourning a glacier
Swiss and Icelandic scientists held funerals to mark the loss of their rivers of ice. They came dressed in black, giving sombre speeches as others…
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El Niño linked to widespread crop failures
The El Niño climate cycle has been responsible for widespread simultaneous crop failure in different regions of the world, a study has found, putting pressure…
We can’t expand airports after declaring a climate emergency – let’s shift to low-carbon transport instead
Jefim Vogel, University of Leeds; Joel Millward-Hopkins, University of Leeds, and Yannick Oswald, University of Leeds The world may finally be waking to the reality…
Toward greener plastics
By Marcus Woo Researchers and companies are working on new kinds of biodegradable packaging, bottles and other products that break down like compost. Plastic is kind of a wonder material….
Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds
An “unprecedented” loss of global biodiversity threatens the progress of more than 80 per cent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and puts 1 million…
Four stories capture the impacts of climate change in the Andes
Travel with these journalists as they explore how people in Peru and Colombia are coping with rising temperatures. It’s not news that climate change is…
Why ministers of finance are critical in the fight against climate change
Recent studies indicate that bold climate action could trigger about $26 trillion in economic benefits by 2030, create over 65 million new jobs and avoid…
One Earth Climate Model
A state-of-the-art climate model, funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and released by the prestigious scientific publisher Springer Nature, offers a roadmap for meeting — and…
The Green New Deal as a catalyst for smoothing out social inequality
Humanity has a decade to reduce carbon emissions or face climate change devastation, reckons the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The United Nations’ group is…