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Opinion / Policy & Finance

Investors and businesses—our best chance to avert climate change?

...floods, droughts and ocean acidification. So how can we start to address this? Financial sector as a strategic driver for change Given a failure of government to effectively tackle the issues, it is i...

20 Nov 2018

Investors and businesses—our best chance to avert climate change?

News / Water

Irrigation, drought, sea level rise and more are causing salt to build up in soils around the world. What can we do?

...flood risk and damage playing a larger role,” says Chen. Spectrum of solutions Soil salinity can be reversed, but it takes time and is expensive. Solutions include improving the efficiency of irrigati...

13 Apr 2019

Irrigation, drought, sea level rise and more are causing salt to build up in soils around the world. What can we do?

News / Green Buildings

Flat-packed cities: wooden skyscrapers sprout over concrete concerns

...flooding, and made cities hotter, environmentalists say. In contrast, wood requires fewer fossil fuels to transport and assemble, and also effectively stores large amounts of carbon - trapped as the t...

21 Aug 2019

Flat-packed cities: wooden skyscrapers sprout over concrete concerns

News / Carbon & Climate

Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

Antarctica is losing ice at a rate that’s about six times faster than in the late 1970s, and that’s pushed up the global sea level by around 14 millimeters (0.55 inches) in that time frame. Those are ...

15 Jan 2019

Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

News / Food & Agriculture

World hunger levels rise for third year running - UN

...floods, the report said. On Monday, the charity Save the Children warned 600,000 children in war zones could die from extreme hunger by the end of this year as funding shortfalls kick in and warring p...

13 Sep 2018

World hunger levels rise for third year running - UN

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change a 'man-made problem with a feminist solution'

Women must be at the heart of climate action if the world is to limit the deadly impact of disasters such as floods and storms, former Irish president and UN rights commissioner Mary Robinson said on ...

19 Jun 2018

Climate change a 'man-made problem with a feminist solution'

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World's top aid agency to promote resilience with new body

...floods and droughts to economic shocks and health epidemics - is seen as increasingly important if international aid is to work. "The extraordinary cost of going back to the same places every three to...

19 Nov 2018

World's top aid agency to promote resilience with new body

Extinction Rebellion protests near Waterloo Bridge, central London.

News / Carbon & Climate

'Rebel or sink': Rallies against government inaction on climate change go global

...flood much of the train network, the world's largest metro system. One poster called the climate crisis "a racist crisis," as climate change will hit the world's poorest countries the hardest, includ...

16 Apr 2019

'Rebel or sink': Rallies against government inaction on climate change go global

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Hurricanes to shake up ballot box

...floods in Hawaii, southern India, and elsewhere in South Asia. As Florence was tearing through the Carolinas, Typhoon Mangkhut was swamping the Philippines and southern China. “ While domestic issues...

21 Sep 2018

Hurricanes to shake up ballot box

News / Energy

Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

...flooding—would lead to acid rain and the deposition of toxic heavy metals on farmland. However, the ruling does not spell the end of the plant. Amu Power has 30 days to appeal the decision and restore...

8 Jul 2019

Backers of Lamu coal project lose court case

Adapting migratory pastoralists to climate change in Rajasthan, India

News / Carbon & Climate

More variable climate means a less just world

...flood, as increasingly violent windstorms batter the shantytowns and jerry-built housing of the rapidly expanding cities in the developing world, and as poorer farmers are forced off marginal land tha...

9 May 2018

More variable climate means a less just world

News / Cities

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

...flooding in Jakarta and Indian cities, but people don't tie any of this back to land use. But now there's enough evidence that all of this is occurring because of overdevelopment where services aren't...

1 Feb 2019

Cities need to grow up—not out—to survive, researchers warn

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate threats drive migration, Indian women find opportunities

...flooded every year," she said. With 80 percent of residents dependent on farming, and many of them poor, the region amounts to one of the most climate-vulnerable areas in India's delta region, she sai...

18 Oct 2018

As climate threats drive migration, Indian women find opportunities

News / Carbon & Climate

Drought and conflict can spur climate refugees

Austrian researchers have made it simpler to identify climate refugees, claiming to have established a direct causal link between climate change, conflict and the numbers of migrants. They are not the...

28 Jan 2019

Drought and conflict can spur climate refugees

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The masses are mobilising against climate change

...Floods, droughts, and wildfires are becoming deadlier, and weather patterns more severe. Later this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ scientific taskforce...

11 Sep 2018

The masses are mobilising against climate change

Opinion / Cities

When climate comes unhinged, we need to re-think how to build our cities

...flood cannot be buffered or balanced by bioswales or lawns along a floodplain; but it can reduce peaks and make flood velocity lower and give people more time to react. Find out more about Dagmar Haas...

12 Feb 2018

When climate comes unhinged, we need to re-think how to build our cities

News / Carbon & Climate

Governments leading world to disastrous warming: UN

...floods and droughts, while the sea level is rising, and rainfall is getting more uncertain, affecting farm production. See: Floods and droughts – weather extremes beyond 1.5 Celsius As for emissions, ...

29 Nov 2018

Governments leading world to disastrous warming: UN

News / Policy & Finance

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

...floods and soil loss. He urged delegates to be mindful of the opportunities for change that are opening up, and take action. The response of governments from developed countries will decide how useful...

10 Sep 2019

India promotes South-South cooperation, but key questions unaddressed

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

...floods killed 1,300 people in India and Pakistan. Fires burned more than 22 million acres (9 million hectares) in California, Amazonia and most recently, Australia, destroying forests, homes and human...

17 Jan 2020

8 environment and development stories to watch in the new make-or-break decade

News / Carbon & Climate

Could developing-world cities make or break the 1.5C warming goal?

...floods. But greater efforts are needed to make similar changes in developing-world cities, particularly as many smaller ones lack the knowledge and financial resources to do it, experts said. "We know...

12 Oct 2018

Could developing-world cities make or break the 1.5C warming goal?

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