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Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

Speeding up progress on reducing carbon emissions would save millions of lives, mostly in metropolitan areas of Africa and Asia.To keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world would need t...

5 Apr 2018

Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target

The coastline of Sulawesi, Indonesia, where languages and cultures are threatened by climate change. Anastasia Riehl,

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The impact of climate change on language loss

Images of extreme weather and alarming headlines about climate change have become common. Last month, dire predictions about our warming planet from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Clim...

27 Nov 2018

The impact of climate change on language loss

Research / Marsh & McLennan Companies

How Climate Resilient is your Company? Meeting a Rising Business Imperative

...carbon economy. Direct physical risks such as hurricanes, droughts and other extreme weather events are happening more frequently, and with greater severity. Further, policy-makers are enacting new r...

13 Jun 2018

How Climate Resilient is your Company? Meeting a Rising Business Imperative

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

How grocery lists can green the world

Two global reports on biodiversity and the climate crisis have given us stark warnings about the devastating impact of our food system. With global food production required to increase by 56 per cent ...

6 Jun 2019

How grocery lists can green the world

News / Carbon & Climate

High-tech weather forecasting aims to bring new hope to Indian farmers facing the devastation of climate change

Shanker Katekar, a 46-year-old farmer in the Indian state of Maharashtra, was discovered lying next to an empty well in the middle of 12 acres (5 hectares) of parched agricultural land. Next to him wa...

28 Aug 2019

High-tech weather forecasting aims to bring new hope to Indian farmers facing the devastation of climate change

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square miles of the rainforest this year. Don’t blame dry weath...

27 Aug 2019

The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest

Polish firefighers battle the blaze in Karbole, Sweden

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Wealthy countries can no longer pretend that climate change won’t affect them

...carbon emissions, avert catastrophic losses and avoid consequent greater costs. Taken together, the commitments governments have made to implement the Paris Agreement, would still result in a global t...

20 Aug 2018

Wealthy countries can no longer pretend that climate change won’t affect them

News / Energy

An idea to electrify 1 million boats in Southeast Asia—inspired by Ikea

All around Southeast Asia, experiments in the electrification of transport are underway. Buses in Thailand, cars in Malaysia, scooters in Myanmar, bicycles in Singapore, and jeepneys in the Philippine...

26 Aug 2019

An idea to electrify 1 million boats in Southeast Asia—inspired by Ikea

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

7 signs of progress: a year of national climate action

...carbon capture and storage. Led by the United Kingdom and Canada and including Finland, Denmark, Mexico and Angola, among others, this alliance also includes businesses and sub-national governments. ...

4 Jun 2018

7 signs of progress: a year of national climate action

News / Transport

Electric vehicle sales promise shock for Big Oil

...Carbon Tracker (CT), an independent financial think-tank carrying out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets. It says fossil fuel companies have taken into account...

9 Jul 2018

Electric vehicle sales promise shock for Big Oil

News / Food & Agriculture

Meat from plants—Does Asia have an appetite for Impossible Foods?

...carbon dioxide levels would drop because plant biomass that’s currently grazed on by cattle would recover. You would be turning back the clock on climate change. Do you have any advice for young susta...

13 Mar 2019

Meat from plants—Does Asia have an appetite for Impossible Foods?

News / Energy

In-depth: Is Shell’s new climate scenario as ‘radical’ as it says?

...Carbon Brief will explore in more depth in the coming weeks – present five possible future worlds that differ in their population, economic growth, energy demand, equality and other factors. Carbon Br...

2 Apr 2018

In-depth: Is Shell’s new climate scenario as ‘radical’ as it says?

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland

...carbon. If left unaddressed, these threats could cause the Congo peatlands to turn from a carbon sink to a carbon source, the study says. This means that the peatlands could contribute to climate chan...

26 Jan 2018

Climate change and deforestation threaten world’s largest tropical peatland

News / Carbon & Climate

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed. Smartphones alr...

29 Jul 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

News / Policy & Finance

RSPO should ban deforestation, say investors with $6.7 trillion in assets

...carbon stock” forest, which is essentially a reference to all forest.) They also want to the RSPO to mandate that companies come up with “management plans for the conservation” of forest in their conc...

15 Aug 2018

RSPO should ban deforestation, say investors with $6.7 trillion in assets

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate

...carbon footprint, they ignored impacts on the climate from manufacturing vehicle materials and parts, assembling vehicles and maintaining roads, bridges and airports. Instead, they only considered the...

31 Oct 2018

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate

News / Energy

What does ‘subsidy-free’ renewables actually mean?

...carbon prices that are below the cost that CO2 imposes on society, known as the social cost of carbon. From this perspective, raising CO2 prices removes hidden subsidies to the fossil fuel sector. Ano...

28 Mar 2018

What does ‘subsidy-free’ renewables actually mean?

News / Corporate Responsibility

‘Going green’ is good business says private sector at UN’s COP24 climate conference

...carbon-neutral, to developing cleaner cooling systems, or producing stainless steel more efficiently and more economically, the pioneer hopes the initiative will help make the case that climate action...

11 Dec 2018

‘Going green’ is good business says private sector at UN’s COP24 climate conference

News / Carbon & Climate

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

...carbon emissions were not made. The report also warned that the costs and impacts of global warming will be more severe than expected, including worse storms, more dangerous heat waves, turbulent weat...

9 Oct 2018

RBF 2018 to spur action on SDGs

News / Carbon & Climate

UN forest project ‘does more harm than good’

...carbon market, and says only five have established national legal frameworks to regulate their trade in carbon. So far, none of the 24 has set up a system for sharing the benefits earned on the carbon...

15 Mar 2018

UN forest project ‘does more harm than good’

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