Climate change

Climate havens or climate destinations are cities that are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure ...

Climate havens or climate destinations are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure to support a larger population. Climate havens or climate destinations are cities that are situated in places that avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and have the infrastructure to support a larger population. And that’s going to be the foundation for the building of a community for tomorrow.”

What role are Africa's creative industries and cultural economy playing in staving off the bleak future that climate change threatens to bring and ensuring ...

Most African countries do not have the financial resources that more developed nations in Asia, Europe, and North America have to mitigate the effects of climate change. The elements are already there for an African future grounded in sustainability. In the quest for sustainability, solar panels are being installed as part of the government’s “Solar Rooftop Programme” to utilize solar energy to power government buildings. African designers are leading in this realm and can continue pioneering new innovations that are both eco-friendly and have design appeal. Three main threads emerge to further cultivate and embed sustainability practices into the process of creativity. This crisis has reaffirmed the need to create sustainable practices in spite of the constraints that are emerging from the pandemic. The greatest areas of innovation are being witnessed in building design, fashion, and visual arts. Khumalo, a celebrated South African fashion designer and recipient of the prestigious 2020 Green Fashion Awards, combines sustainability, social impact, and empowerment in her fashion. In textile and fashion, designers are increasingly using locally sourced, recycled items for production. The rapid urbanization process in African cities leaves room for local artistic and cultural influences to be harnessed. With a population of more than 1 billion and growing, Africa contributes the least of any continent towards global carbon emissions, but stands to lose the most if the projections for climate change are realized. She also charged Africans and the rest of humanity with their responsibility to the Earth, saying, “Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system.”

Carbon dioxide emissions tend to acidify oceans making aquatic species and marine habitats more vulnerable to declines and damage. This ocean acidification ...

The goal is to adopt proper implementation of global strategies that can ensure marine and coastal protection and the conservation of the global oceans in general. The WMO in particular also collaborates with the Food and Agriculture Organisation to understand the impacts of climate change on marine productivity and fisheries. More than hundred countries across the globe responsible for a majority of these emissions, have made national climate commitments and pledges to curb their impacts on the environment. With the Paris Agreement, the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow among others, we can definitely say that we are off to a good start. While 30% of the land on Earth is classified as areas of particular importance for biodiversity protection, in order to reverse the extinction crisis, there needs to be an additional 20% of land that needs to be conserved. To surmise, greenhouse warming has complex and perhaps, severe impacts on the ocean than on land. Countries have also started developing policies and implementing sustainable practices which can conserve the oceans and protect fisheries and marine habitats. On the other hand, La Niña events have also seen a build-up in recent years, and tend to have complex impacts on weather patterns particularly in the Pacific Ocean. Both El Niño and La Niña events are part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), where the former brings warming effects while the latter brings significant cooling or changes in winter seasons in the Pacific regions. The cumulative impacts of deforestation, agricultural runoff, overexploitation of marine resources, overfishing and more also weaken marine ecosystems of the world. Oceans are known to absorb most of the solar energy reaching the Earth, and warming of the oceans is generally slower than the atmosphere, resulting in moderate coastal weather with few hot and cold extremes. While oceans tend to influence regional and weather conditions around the world, changes in the climate can also have profound impacts on the oceans. Oceans absorb almost 90% of the extra energy from greenhouse gas effects, and this has resulted in ocean warming at depths of 1,000 metres.

Global warming is occurring at different rates at different places on Earth. This is due to geophysics and the complexity of Earth's climate systems.

Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that differences in ocean and atmospheric warming are not explained by climate change science. This is also why surface air temperatures over land are warming more quickly than surface air temperatures over the ocean, he said. "There is no single value of temperature change expected for the oceans and atmosphere. While they warm at different rates, both the atmosphere and ocean are warming due to human activity. "If scientists were all correct then rises in ocean temperature and all atmospheric datasets would all be the same – but they are not." According to NASA, 90% of global warming is occurring in Earth's oceans.

Trees, if anything, do the best job to help the earth. They absorb CO2 by their leaves, store it in their bark or roots, or turn it into oxygen, but trees are ...

The climate is changing fast. Climate change is becoming a bigger problem by the second. If we work together, we can slow down and even stop climate change. This is terrible for the environment. *Ice-free Arctic. Arctic sea ice recedes every summer, but still covers millions of square miles of ocean today. When you buy things that took trees — paper, books, wood — try looking for a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label, which means that this company plants a tree for every one cut down.

Across its 17 chapters, it examines climate change mitigation efforts in use (or pledged for use) in everything from agriculture and transport, to energy supply ...

Climate change is a direct result of more than a century of ignored warnings and and unsustainable approaches to using precious resources. Researchers at ETH’s Future Cities Laboratory believe that part of the answer to this is to enable a circular loop within the urban landscape. The authors say that it could “transform cityscapes from their current status as net sources of GHG emissions into large-scale, human-made carbon sinks.” A paper referenced in the report suggests that constructing timber buildings for 2.3 billion urban dwellers (between 2020 and 2050) could store between 0.01 and 0.68 Gt CO2 per year, depending on a number of factors, including the average floor area per capita. This has prompted many to begin a drastic rethink of the materials supply chain, and of the construction, operation, and demolition cycle. A particularly good example of this is the dominance of private cars seen in many urban areas. More than half of the global human population now live in these areas, and that proportion is forecasted to increase to nearly 70% by 2050. The materials most associated with mid- and high-rise urban construction – namely, concrete, steel, aluminum, and glass – all come with significant carbon (and environmental) cost, despite steady improvements in their production efficiency. Smart (and distributed) electric grids are also enabling a more sustainable approach to electricity supply and demand. There is arguably a fourth strategy too – behavioral change – though, this often follows on from the successful implementation of the other three. The huge range of approaches reflects the fact that the causes of climate change are numerous – though, it should be said, we humans are to blame for all of them – and tackling it will take a multi-pronged approach. Across its 17 chapters, it examines climate change mitigation efforts in use (or pledged for use) in everything from agriculture and transport, to energy supply and manufacturing. We are living in a climate crisis, and the time for action is now.

Time-lapse imagery shows the damage climate change has already done to our planet.

As a result, beef is five times more damaging to the climate than white meat and 11 times more than wheat, rice and potatoes. Farmers need around 28 times the land to produce beef over pork or chicken and 11 times the water, according to a 2014 study. In the US, cars and trucks account for almost one-fifth of emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Climate change is transforming the Arctic Ocean in unprecedented ways. One piece of evidence can be seen in the systematic decline in its seasonal ice ...

“She collected water, air dust (aerosol), sea ice, melt pond (small pools of open water that form on sea ice in spring and summer), dirty sediment-laden ice floating in surface water, for her master's thesis work. “The annual increase rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 60 years is about 100 times faster than previous natural increases,” Baskaran continued. In addition, Baskaran said, changes in surface air and water temperatures alter the amount and frequency of precipitation. “Due to warming, the ice/snow melt on the Arctic’s surface is faster,” he said. Thus, the ecosystem in the upper waters may be negatively impacted.” More heat is expected to be added to the surface Arctic waters, leading to further warming.”

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

Most of the data at each site was collected over short periods, and it doesn’t demonstrate how insect populations are declining over time. While the effect needs more investigation to determine exactly what’s going on, the researchers suggest that species in warmer parts of the world may be migrating into these areas. Upon a closer look, the researchers found that tropical regions were at the greatest risk for insect declines. The new study analyzed data from hundreds of studies investigating nearly 18,000 different insect species at thousands of sites across the planet. Places with both significant warming and intense agriculture experienced the greatest losses. Deforestation and expanding agricultural land use are degrading insect habitats, while global warming is altering the climate conditions that many species require to survive.

While climate change is already applying pressure on world insect populations, scientists have found that combined with intensive agricultural, ...

The findings of this study also demonstrate the importance of having large and diverse natural habitats adjacent to agricultural land to ensure insects are not dependent on a single seasonal crop species. “In areas with high-intensity agriculture, there is usually a low diversity of plants. Tropical areas in particular saw the biggest declines in insect biodiversity linked to land use and climate change.

Earth Day 2022 Google Doodle: Throughout the day, the doodle images will change to represent different locations of the earth and the impact of global ...

Several events and campaigns are being held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection. Each image will remain on the homepage for several hours at a time.

In one of the most creative doodles of all time, Google is spreading awareness about Earth Day 2022 with a time-lapse on its home page, which shows the impacts ...

Earth Day is also celebrated to call attention to the various ways people can be more sustainable in their lifestyle and slow down global warming. UN ActNow has also stated several ways through which people can take action against climate change on the occasion of Earth Day 2022. Google further explained that the major cause of climate change on Earth is greenhouse gas emissions.

Can you solve drought by piping water across the country? Is the weather becoming more extreme than scientists predicted? What kind of trees are best to plant ...

NASA scientists, among others, have calculated that any cooling effect would be overwhelmed by the warming effect of all the greenhouse gases we have pumped, and continue to pump, into the atmosphere. The reality is not that clear cut: If the presence of those cryptominers disincentivizes oil and gas companies from piping away that gas to be used elsewhere, any savings effect is blunted. That keeps the number of batteries, and the weight, down. To measure temperatures at the sea’s surface, for instance, the most common method before about 1940 was to toss a bucket overboard a ship, haul it back up with a rope and read the temperature of the water inside. Some researchers put the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave in that category, and are working to figure out whether they need to re-evaluate some of their assumptions. How can we possibly have reliable measures of global temperatures from back then, keeping in mind that oceans cover about 70 percent of the globe and that a large majority of land has never been populated by humans to any significant degree? Given “unexpected” extreme events like the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave and extreme heat in Antarctica that appear to shock scientists, it’s difficult for me to trust the I.P.C.C.’s framing that we haven’t run out of time. The idea of taking water from one community and giving it to another has some basis in American history. And some 2,500 chemical sites are in areas at risk of flooding, which could cause those chemicals to leach into the groundwater. And research “suggests these disruptions to the vortex are happening more often in connection with a rapidly warming, melting Arctic, which we know is a clear symptom of climate change,” said Jennifer A. Francis, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Where the extreme cold occurs depends on the nature of the disruption to the polar vortex. The connection between climate change and extreme cold weather involves the polar jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere, strong winds that blow around the globe from west to east at an altitude of 5 to 9 miles.

Earth Day this year is based on the theme "invest in our planet" amid strong signs from the planet as wildfires, intense floods, and changing climate ...

The major economies of the world, including the US, are yet to deliver on their commitments towards a $100 billion per year climate fund. US Climate envoy John Kerry had said that President Joe Biden is committed to increasing U.S. funding to developing countries to help with climate change. Earth Day this year is based on the theme "invest in our planet" amid strong signs from the planet as wildfires, intense floods, and changing climate threaten its survival.

Milwaukee was selected as one of more than a dozen cities deemed to be "climate havens" - places that could avoid the worst effects of natural disasters and ...

- Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin - Duluth, Minnesota

President Joe Biden's ambitions to finally put the U.S. on the path to confront climate change are crashing into an election-year scramble to lower gas ...

Last month, Biden announced he would release 1 million barrels of oil a day from the country’s strategic reserve, one of several steps to cut gas prices soon. And as the White House tries to starve Moscow of the funds it needs to wage its war in Ukraine, Biden is pushing countries to stop buying Russian oil and gas. They pointed out that Interior Secretary Deb Haaland had used her discretion to significantly cut the amount of land being offered and raise the royalty rate companies must pay. The White House recently greenlighted exporting more U.S. gas to Europe, a step that requires building costly new export terminals that are likely to stay in use for years — even if the current crisis ends. Biden’s newfound focus on lowering gas prices in the near term has opened up rare divisions between his administration and environmental groups, who largely cheered his efforts in his first year to recommit the U.S. on climate change. But the spending proposal died, taking more than half a billion dollars in climate funding with it, denying Democrats what would have been their biggest legislative achievement to run on ahead of the midterms. But there have been no signs of serious, advanced negotiations — including with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a must-have vote — and time is quickly running out before the campaign season makes legislating in Congress nearly impossible. Yet some energy analysts have questioned that logic, arguing that building mammoth new solar and wind farms is not a viable solution to bring down energy costs immediately. “The problem they have is the energy reality we face just doesn’t square with the quick transition that they would like to sell. But that means increasing global production of gasoline, just when Biden is trying to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels. Yet this week, Biden reinstated rules requiring big infrastructure projects to undergo complex reviews for environmental and climate effects before they can get started, a step that could cause significant delays. “It’ll ensure we’re no longer reliant on petrostate autocrats,” Sittenfeld said.

Earth Day is recognised across the planet as a chance to raise awareness of the environmental crisis we all face.

“Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods.” “This is the moment to change it all – the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate,” the Earth Day website states. The theme of Earth Day 2022 is “Invest in Our Planet”.

Mount Kilimanjaro, Sermersooq, Great Barrier Reef, Harz Forests featured in the doodle.

The southwest monsoon contributes 74.9 per cent to the annual rainfall in India and irrigates over half of India’s agricultural land. Selected comments may also be used in the ‘Letters’ section of the Down To Earth print edition. “Quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall is likely to be 99 per cent of the LPA with a model error of ± 5 per cent. It noted that currently, the southwest monsoon is passing through a ‘dry epoch’ which started in the decade of 1971-80. You can further help us by making a donation. Google, which records over 8 billion searches every day, has dedicated its daily doodle to Earth Day several times since the feature was rolled out in 1998. We are a voice to you; you have been a support to us. Scientists have attributed the loss to global warming as well as change in land-use, mostly deforestation. Rising temperatures and severe drought are responsible for this loss of green cover. The images were gathered from The Ocean Agency, an international non-profit that works on marine conservation. You can further help us by making a donation. We are a voice to you; you have been a support to us.

The Earth's average temperature has increased by more than 1C during the 20th and 21st century.

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. “Earth’s climate record, preserved in tree rings, ice cores, and coral reefs, shows that the global average temperature is stable over long periods of time. The Met Office defines a heatwave as at least three consecutive days of temperatures above a certain level. The threshold for a heatwave is 25ºC for most of the country. In March, the Met Office changed the definition of a heatwave to reflect how climate change is already affecting the UK. Climate change is already having a significant effect on our planet, and the importance of taking action is highlighted on Earth Day.

The four featured time-lapse animations shows the retreating glacier on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, drought impacts on the Harz Forests in Germany, coral ...

Within the next 25 years, the entire ice could be gone as a result of climate change. The image database will be updated every year. According to an official statement, "using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet.

Climate change impacts the most vulnerable first and worst and that's why Oxfam is making sure that climate action is central to our fight against ...

3. Black and Indigenous people face the worst impacts of climate change, which causes heat waves, storms, and other disasters. For example, due to the effects of climate change an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia have been displaced in search of water and pasture, just in the first quarter of 2022, despite having done little to cause the climate crisis. It is time that our elected officials give it the urgency, attention, and investment that is necessary.

While there is no silver bullet to address climate change, carbon pricing certainly moves the needle in limiting greenhouse gas emissions and rising global ...

In buildings, energy efficiencies can be achieved with well-insulated homes and factories making efforts to reduce energy use. This scenario limited global temperature rise to 1°C. You can pump in economic growth and still stay under 1.8 °C," he said. It also includes lowering methane and other emissions, limiting deforestation and increasing afforestation. What is critical is that the electricity sources are renewable, like solar and wind. Midgley pointed out that there are very few silver bullets in addressing climate change. Some countries have an emissions performance standard, which puts a limit on the greenhouse gas emissions allowed from power stations or certain industries. Midgley noted that the solutions do not happen in isolation. The simulations have helped policymakers, businesses and academics understand the effects of different climate solutions, which has also benefitted their strategies. The rate is expected to be $2- per ton or ~R300 by 2026. From 2026, the carbon tax will be increased with larger annual hikes to reach $30 per ton or ~R460 per ton by 2030. Combining electrification with energy efficiencies in transport and buildings can limit temperatures further to 2.8°C. Energy efficiencies in the transport sector can be achieved through expanding public transport and promoting the use of hybrid cars.

Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet cities can also do a lot to mitigate climate change and help people adapt to its ...

The children pointed out that they lived in cities such as Cape Town (South Africa), Lagos (Nigeria) and Tabarka (Tunisia) where the impacts of climate change are on the rise. But, without robust action and engagement of children at the local sphere of government, the commitments become empty noise. The Climate Change Act (2016) of Kenya is very clear on the obligations of institutions at the city level in relation to climate governance. I argue that cities can do more to protect children from the impacts of climate change. In a recent study, I explored how city-level climate law and policy protects children in the context of climate change. Almost 1 billion children – nearly half of the world’s children – live in countries that are at extremely high risk of climate change impacts.

Michael Mann to Amitav Ghosh, these environmentalist authors throw light on the alarming situation of the planet and understanding climate change.

This is light-hearted philosophical writing discusses the serious issue of climate change with a pinch of humour. The book gives the vision to dream of a better world and tools to aid that. The author’s personal experiences as the former director of the Centre for Urban Science and Progress at New York University are also added. The author is an American journalist and nonfiction writer whose focus areas are science, health and the environment. Delving into brand-new research, the author uncovers the power of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. Climate change, migrant crisis, and animist spirituality of indigenous communities around the world are the topics discussed in this book. The ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress are also discussed. Named one of the best books of the year 2019 by The New Yorker, it talks about the greater damage of climate change like food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. In this book, the author urges how the climate crisis needs to spur transformational political change. The book explains how the fossil fuel industry had changed its tactics by shifting the burden of climate change responsibility to individuals and denying their role in it. She takes many examples from the country like the cotton fields of Punjab and eco start-ups in Bengaluru to explain the topic. This points to the fact that the last 30 years have been the warmest in the planet’s history (or at least the past 800 years). With the surface temperature rising and the melting of Arctic ice, it is important to understand climate change.

The consensus among scientists is that we are in an era of global heating and extreme weather events, primarily due to the devastating effects of human ...

“[B]y increasing communication from the health system, by promoting healthier lifestyles, we on the one hand promote behavior shifts that determine low-carbon transitions and facilitate those low-carbon transitions. But […] the response to climate change, and commensurate investment, remains inadequate,” it concludes. That alters hydrological cycles and generates other impacts on the climate [and] on our environment that add to the whole combo that we call ‘climate change’.” “One of the most cited examples of how infectious diseases are changing [is] in so-called arthropod-borne diseases. For example, a study that appeared in PNAS in 2019 looked at how efficiently the immune systems of mice reacted to influenza viruses under different temperature conditions. “[Pandemics are] going to happen more and a key driver of this is climate change. “So what happens [as a result] is that, as heat from the Sun reaches the Earth, they act like a blanket, they trap the heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere, and that makes the temperatures go up. “[G]reenhouse gases that have been accumulating in the atmosphere due to human activity are gases like carbon dioxide [and] methane. As climates change animals will change their distribution; they’ll probably group together more allowing viruses to jump more easily between them. So that also is posing limits on […] food productivity,” stressed Dr. Romanello. In our latest installment of the In Conversation podcast, we discuss these aspects at length with two key experts. Why are researchers concerned, and what are the implications for health?

To mark the nation's 52nd Earth Day, Robert Feder, MD, outlines how climate change will exacerbate mental health challenges and the importance of global ...

The first is the direct impact of changes in climate on mental health. Concerns about climate change are now showing up in therapists’ offices.6 Despite accumulating knowledge about how to help with these problems,7 the number of “climate informed” therapists remains low. 7. Feder R. A brief guide to individual therapy for climate-related mental distress. 1. Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaption, and vulnerability. In addition, rising ambient temperatures are associated with higher suicide rates3 and growing emergency room mental health visits.4 The New York Times. Published February 6, 2022. Climate change escalates mental health issues in 2 ways. In addition, there will be a large loss of human habitat through rising sea levels and temperature increases. 6. Barry E. Climate change enters the therapy room. Improved access to mental health services, an increase in the number of mental health providers, and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels will all be necessary to meet this challenge. Approximately 37% of American people currently live in areas that have serious problems with access to mental health care.8 This is likely to get significantly worse in the coming decade as global temperatures warm and climate change creates increasing demand for mental health services. This results in significant psychiatric morbidity with new incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety, as well as exacerbation of pre-existing mental disorders.

Could we save Earth if we treated it like a child? We are in crisis and need to heal the planet. Climate work is not about diluted commitments coldly discussed ...

Zelda Keller is executive director of the Institute for Climate and Peace. She also works with organizations to develop peacebuilding initiatives throughout the Pacific Asia region. We liken the climate crisis to the doldrums. Even the quietest, distant of cries can awaken a mother from a deep sleep, and we must establish similarly visceral bonds for effective and just climate action. It is a feeling, location and knowingness at the same time. During doldrums, the boat might be moving very quickly in the storm while the crew is unable to see the way to safety. Despite the demonstrated successes of locally based efforts like these, governments and philanthropies invest most climate finance in top-down and technology-centric approaches. Positive peaceful climate solutions present the greatest opportunity to build social cohesion, create lasting commitments that survive beyond partisanship, and are sustained beyond each of us. The communities and lands where these projects are based are now stronger, healthier, more connected and better prepared to face climate impacts with resilience. Central to our climate justice work is helping to frame the conversation about what peace is. We are in crisis and need to heal the planet. Their nerves express concern to you with quiet messages designed to tug at your unique receptivity – a tight squeeze, a shifted foot, a tear in the corner of the eye. As mothers, we have often felt engulfed by the gnawing worry of climate change, the jagged feeling akin to that moment when you, as a mother, drop off your child in the care of someone who hasn't yet earned your trust.

Instead of buying sustainable products or putting the climate crisis out of your mind, do something about climate change by giving your time.

This can be seen as shifting the blame to the individual rather than the system, but cities aren’t going to start reconfiguring themselves to be more pedestrian and bike friendly or invest in electric buses if no one is walking, biking or taking the bus. This doesn’t mean you need to, starting this very moment, call yourself a climate activist and glue yourself to the front of a fossil fuel-funding bank. These are all individual actions, yes, but those that have the potential to snowball in your community. The best place to start: 350.org, an international group focused on climate action that has outposts in cities across the globe, and likely one near you. (You can do that another time.) Instead, give the one thing that’s going to make the most difference in the fight against the climate crisis: your time. Better yet, you should join said protesters in your community, whether it’s a general march for climate action or an event about expanding fossil-fuel infrastructure in your community. Volunteering with a climate group near you is also the easiest way to stay up to date on the legislation in your state, because they’re likely keeping track of it. But in the fight for a liveable future, time is not money. The default course of action for many is to buy our way into a sense of safety — whether through a planet-friendly Patagonia hoodie or a donation to an environmental nonprofit — or to simply ignore the problem all together. The time you can devote is much, much more important. We’ve heard the alarm bells sounded by scientists, including in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which included a plea from co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner that “any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.” We’ve championed many companies engaged in the admittedly tough process of decreasing their environmental impact, but today, we’ve got a different message for you: Don’t buy from them.

Climate change is contributing to rising losses from natural disasters, including increased damage to physical assets and disruption to business operations.

Models can also be used to sensitivity test the implemented protection measures against future climate conditions and a comprehensive range of high impact scenarios. When we think about the damage from recent natural disasters, it is important to place climate change in the wider context of what is contributing to rising losses. This includes the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, a global network of business leaders from various industries developing cost-effective solutions to transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Many of the dangerous and costly manifestations of climate change are already here. But for other perils — tornadoes, hurricanes, and other windstorms— the impact is less clear. Climate science is a fast-evolving field of study, and while projections of future environmental outcomes remain uncertain, the need for investments in long-term resilience strategies has never been clearer.

Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to downplay the extent of the ...

Google similarly announced a move to ban advertisements that contradict scientists’ understanding about the existence and causes of climate change. In recent years, tech companies have been introducing new labels and information hubs to elevate accurate information about the environment while taking steps to limit the spread of falsehoods. “We recognize that misleading information about climate change can undermine efforts to protect the planet.”

To commemorate Earth Day, which is celebrated annually on April 22, environmentalists made it clear that climate change was here and needed urgent action ...

Volschenk said southern Africa was already highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as warm and dry regions were projected to become even warmer and drier, with warming in the interior of the region increasing at twice the global rate. It is not imminent – it is happening now. Greenpeace Africa climate and energy campaigner Thandile Chinyavanhu said: “Climate change is unfolding violently before our eyes.

In Africa, the climate crisis is threatening the livelihoods of millions and the availability of food and water. In recent years the continent has seen economic ...

He said the funds come with conditions and restrictions that make it difficult for the nations to use them in ways they would prioritize. Fredrick Owino works with 16 African countries on how best to increase and preserve forests as one of the ways to mitigate global climate change. In recent years the continent has seen economic and population growth that has led to environmental degradation while suffering extreme climatic events such as floods, heatwaves and drought.

Twitter announced a new policy on Earth Day: it now bans ads pushing climate denial. The company says conversations about sustainability and climate change ...

Google told The Verge at the time that it reviewed the content and decided to take “appropriate enforcement actions.” Facebook has also come under fire for failing to label climate misinformation despite its policy on flagging such content. Talk about “sustainability” on the platform has grown by over 150 percent since 2021, Twitter says. Twitter also said that it will soon share more details about how it plans to “add reliable, authoritative context” about climate change on its platform.

The study used Kenya and South Africa as key examples. In many countries, and in these two countries specifically, I observed that city governments have the ...

The children pointed out that they lived in cities such as Cape Town (South Africa), Lagos (Nigeria) and Tabarka (Tunisia) where the impacts of climate change are on the rise. This could include sporting and fun activities, forums and other opportunities for children to be engaged on the climate discourse at community level. The Climate Change Act (2016) of Kenya is very clear on the obligations of institutions at the city level in relation to climate governance. I argue that cities can do more to protect children from the impacts of climate change. In a recent study, I explored how city-level climate law and policy protects children in the context of climate change. Almost 1 billion children – nearly half of the world’s children – live in countries that are at extremely high risk of climate change impacts.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions ...

Twitter's announcement on Earth Day came as it tries to fend off an unwanted takeover bid by billionaire Elon Musk, who has said he thinks people should be ...

Twitter last year introduced a Topic feature to help users find conversations about climate change, and rolled out hubs of "credible, authoritative" information on an array of high-profile topics including the science backing climate change. "We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter, and that misrepresentative ads shouldn’t detract from important conversations about the climate crisis." "Misleading advertisements on Twitter that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy," Twitter global sustainability manager Casey Junod said in a blog post.

To mark the occasion, here's a look at what recent Pew Research Center surveys have found about Americans' views on climate change and renewable energy sources.

A smaller share (36%) says collective action globally will likely be enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change, while another 10% say they don’t view climate change impacts as a problem. About six-in-ten liberal Democrats (63%) say the U.S. should phase out fossil fuels completely, compared with 36% who prefer the country use a mix of fossil fuels and renewables. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (59%) say the U.S. does not have this responsibility, while 39% say it does. About a quarter of Americans (24%) say the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity contributes not too much or not at all to climate change. About a quarter of Americans (24%) oppose this. Larger shares of Republicans say human activity contributes some to climate change (39%) or that it contributes not too much or not at all (44%). Among moderate and conservative Democrats, by comparison, 37% support the U.S. phasing out fossil fuels completely, compared with 61% who prefer a mix of fossil fuels and renewables. In the GOP, for example, a third of conservative Republicans and GOP leaners favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral, while 64% oppose it. The vast majority of Democrats (90%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050. A large majority of Democrats say human activity contributes a great deal to climate change (71%), while just 17% of Republicans say the same. Three-quarters of Americans say that human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, contributes to climate change at least some, with 46% saying it contributes a great deal, a separate January 2022 Center survey found. About four-in-ten U.S. adults (42%) say that dealing with climate change should be a top priority for President Joe Biden and Congress to address this year, according to a Center survey conducted in January 2022.

For Earth Day 2022, we highlight the immense impact trees can have in the continuing fight against climate change - from planting to mapping them.

“It’s time to put nature on the balance sheet,” says founder and CEO Marco Albani. As well as greening city centres, PopUp Forest aims to mobilize civic support for the creation of urban wild spaces through education and community engagement. All the profits go to the investor and three new trees are planted for every one that is cut down. When the tree is no longer able to capture carbon it is felled and the timber sold. But on this year’s Earth Day, it’s important to remember that nature is not only the victim of rising temperatures, it also has a critical role to play in tackling climate change. Based on IPCC data, NASA says that 950 million hectares of new forests will be needed to help arrest climate change.