Browsing Category
Climate Change
UN Chief Antonio Guterres calls for urgent action on climate change, AI
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged leaders to tackle the existential threats posed by climate change, the unchecked development of artificial intelligence (AI) and international governance reforms.
"Despite climate…
Read More...
Read More...
The cost of climate change on households and families in the EU
This study investigates the major climate-related risks for households in the EU by quantifying the relationship between a set of selected climate-hazards metrics, households’ income by source, and sector-specific expenditures, capturing…
Read More...
Read More...
AI and climate change threaten nearly half the world’s businesses
Almost half of global chief executives said their business models won’t be viable within a decade due to the pace of technological advances such as AI and climate pressures, according to a survey.
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ poll of 4,702…
Read More...
Read More...
Takeaway point from International Conference on climate change
It’s been about a month since the gavel came down on COP28 in Dubai, but it’s already time to start looking ahead to COP29.
The 28th United Nations climate conference took place in a Middle Eastern petrostate last year; this year’s summit…
Read More...
Read More...
2024 Could Be Hotter Than “Record-Shattering” 2023, Warns UN
This year could be hotter under El Nino's influence than the record-shattering 2023, the United Nations warned Friday, as it urged drastic emissions cuts to combat climate change.
The UN's World Meteorological Organization said new monthly…
Read More...
Read More...
Snow-Capped Mountains at Risk from Climate Change
Humans store water in huge metal towers and deep concrete reservoirs. But nature’s water storage is much more scenic – the snowpack that tops majestic mountains.
Even if we don’t realize it, humans rely on those natural water towers just…
Read More...
Read More...
Global warming pushes ocean temperatures off the charts: study
In 2023, the world’s oceans took up an enormous amount of excess heat, enough to “boil away billions of Olympic-sized swimming pools,” according to an annual report published Thursday.
Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet and have kept…
Read More...
Read More...
COP29 host country priming the pumps for a huge hike in gas production
Azerbaijan, host of next year’s COP climate summit, is set to boost its gas production by a third over the next decade, with fossil fuel companies forecast to spend $41.4 billion on the country’s gas fields, according to new analysis.…
Read More...
Read More...
Jaipur Literature Festival 2024 to Showcase a Rich Tapestry of Climate & Environmental…
Sessions to focus on climate change shaping civilisations, transition from fossil fuel era, mystique of tiger tales and the story of conservation efforts intersection of AI with climate and environmental challenges, migration of both humans…
Read More...
Read More...
Earth shattered global heat record in ‘23 and it’s flirting with warming limit, European agency says
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.
The European climate agency Copernicus said…
Read More...
Read More...