Vanuatu’s climate change minister said the COP27 climate talks will be considered a “failure” if they do not end with a new fund for compensation of vulnerable countries to address “loss and damage” caused by global warming. Vanuatu, according to Ralph Regenvanu, was the first country to use the term “loss and damage” at the …
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Delegates at the COP27 conference in Egypt have decades of research into warming trajectories published by the United Nations Climate Science Agency to inform their decisions. They have all information about climate change. Every five years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes reports that represent a global scientific consensus on climate change, its …
According to the most recent Copernicus Climate Change Service Data, Europe just had the warmest October on record, with temperatures nearly two degrees above the 1991-2020 average. This is due to the highest greenhouse gas concentration levels. These October figures are part of a much larger trend. Europe is warming at a much faster rate …
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Mexico has pledged to deploy a further 30 gigatonnes of renewable energy capacity by 2030, consistent with a statement issued by the country’s Foreign Ministry on Monday because the country cooperates with the US to fulfill new climate goals by doubling renewable energy sources. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard traveled to Egypt for the COP27 climate …
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According to insurers and risk modeling experts, climate change has increased the cost of natural disasters by increasing the frequency and severity of flooding and wildfires. The ten most expensive events of the last decade, as provided to Reuters by risk modeling firm RMS, all occurred within the last five years. While richer countries with …
We cannot count climate natural disasters, but we can count the loss Read More »
According to scientists, the Earth’s long-term average global air temperature has never varied by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above a stable 14 degrees Celsius since the last Ice Age ended nearly 12,000 years ago and human civilizations developed. However, fossil fuel emissions accumulating in the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s energy are …
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On any given morning at the COP27 climate conference, you can expect a parade of anti-meat protesters dressed as pigs and cows, holding banners decrying livestock’s carbon footprint and chanting slogans like “Let’s be vegan, let’s be free.” Activist groups and corporate startups have descended on Egypt’s two-week climate summit to put pressure on the …
With the annual United Nations climate summit in its final week, many of the world’s environment ministers gathered in Egypt have begun to look ahead to another high-stakes meeting for nature next month. Experts say that for those environmental talks to be successful, governments must control global warming. Climate change is one of the major …
If COP27 climate talks succeed, then next month’s U.N. nature summit will be okay Read More »
Germany is investing in LNG terminals as part of its efforts to diversify away from Russian gas. In May, it leased four floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), each of which can import at least 5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of seaborne gas per year. The competition of first one was yesterday in Wilhelmshaven. Uniper …
Carlyle Group Inc, a private equity firm, has formed a unit to build solar and other renewable energy plants as part of a push to build infrastructure to address the global shift away from climate-warming fossil fuels. Carlyle did not say how much it expected to spend to reach the new unit’s target project pipeline …
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