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Scientists warn a third of people face life in climate hotspots

About 1.6 billion people now live in climate change "vulnerability hotspots", a number that could double by 2050 if fossil fuels continue being used at the rate they are today, scientists warned at t...

11 Nov 2022

Scientists warn a third of people face life in climate hotspots

News / Carbon & Climate

Springs dying across Himachal Pradesh

...flooded, and the water moves downstream rapidly. The other result: springs dying quickly. “Now there is either flood in the monsoon or drought in the entire year. My apple and cauliflower crops get da...

24 Nov 2021

Springs dying across Himachal Pradesh

Australian drylands viewed from the air.

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

We’re worried about a tipping point in how ecosystems absorb carbon

...floods and bushfires. The biggest absorbers of atmospheric carbon dioxide in Australia are savannas and temperate forests. But as the effects of climate change intensify, ecosystems such as these are ...

26 Mar 2022

We’re worried about a tipping point in how ecosystems absorb carbon

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Green development is now the only option

...floods, famines, and instability. Moreover, the idea that highly polluting economic growth should be prioritised over green investments rests on the premise that there will be a market for highly poll...

13 Sep 2022

Green development is now the only option

Press Releases / Eco-Business

Sustainable finance key lever for net-zero transition and social stability in the face of disruption

...floods, heatwaves, and extreme weather. The recent energy crisis and the restarting of activities as economies open up have resulted in emission spikes. Against this light, it is important that the su...

26 Sep 2022

Sustainable finance key lever for net-zero transition and social stability in the face of disruption

News / Carbon & Climate

24 hours with… mangrove specialist Daniel Friess

...flooded by the tides daily – have gained prominence as global warming has worsened in recent years. They can suck up larger amounts of Earth-heating carbon dioxide from the air than dryland trees, and...

26 Jul 2022

24 hours with… mangrove specialist Daniel Friess

News / Policy & Finance

Southeast Asia's biodiversity protection challenge, by the numbers

...floods in Malaysia. Countries such as Thailand and the Philippines could be “reaching their potential” in protecting more forests, since they presently have relatively low forest cover, said Surin. He...

29 Dec 2022

Southeast Asia's biodiversity protection challenge, by the numbers

News / Food & Agriculture

Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

...flooding, drought is becoming increasingly common in the Barind region, which covers most of Rajshahi and some of Rangpur district. The area's annual average rainfall is about 1,100 mm (43 inches) - l...

28 Dec 2022

Bangladesh farmers swap rice for vegetables as water dries up

News / Water

Reservoir seen to revitalise Nepal’s 'ecologically dead' holy river

...flood warning system. Critics, and even officials, say that while all these efforts are likely to improve the condition of the river, they won’t be enough to revive it. “There are many issues that nee...

9 Sep 2022

Reservoir seen to revitalise Nepal’s 'ecologically dead' holy river

Opinion / Policy & Finance

How developing countries can reach net-zero

...floods. While Asia accounts for the world’s largest emissions of greenhouse gases with the highest carbon intensity, it is also home to 99 of the world’s 100 most climate-vulnerable cities. The net-ze...

4 Nov 2022

How developing countries can reach net-zero

Opinion / Transport

A faster route to greener shipping

...flooding. The UN Ocean Conference declaration stated that the IMO must urgently align its climate ambition with the Paris agreement’s global-warming targets and set “clear interim goals” to start redu...

6 Sep 2022

A faster route to greener shipping

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change made India and Pakistan’s 2022 early heatwave ‘30 times more likely’

...floods in South Africa, damaging cyclones in southern Africa and record heat in the US, among hundreds of other extreme weather events. Heat goes on Parts of South Asia, including India and Pakistan, ...

28 May 2022

Climate change made India and Pakistan’s 2022 early heatwave ‘30 times more likely’

Workers harvest paddy from a flooded field in Bangladesh

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

We need a clearer roadmap to a resilient food system

...floods in Bangladesh devastating crops, and heatwaves in India and the United States causing reduced wheat yields and livestock deaths. This, on top of the Ukraine crisis and the ongoing impacts on su...

3 Aug 2022

We need a clearer roadmap to a resilient food system

A farmer plants rice in a drought farm in China

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Making net-zero pledges count

...floods and fires, we must close the gap between the promises we hear and the action we need. Catherine McKenna, former Canadian minister of environment and climate change, is Chair of the United Nati...

30 Sep 2022

Making net-zero pledges count

News / Policy & Finance

Filipino activists: Loss and damage fund a win, but what about fossil fuel phaseout?

...floods, droughts, storms. This is most worrisome for our country,” said Pedrosa. “ Many others, like the Philippines’ own delegation, shamefully kept mum despite representing highly vulnerable peopl...

23 Nov 2022

Filipino activists: Loss and damage fund a win, but what about fossil fuel phaseout?

News / Policy & Finance

Insurance woes plague efforts to cut growing wildfire risks

...floods and storms, access to insurance protection from them also is weakening. That is leaving many more families, organisations and governments at growing financial risk, they say. Anxious insur...

12 Apr 2023

Insurance woes plague efforts to cut growing wildfire risks

News / Cities

Why forests are key to the climate—and not just to absorb carbon

...flooding, as trees provide more permeable land to absorb rainwater. In Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown, for example, after devastating landslides in 2017, the mayor's recovery plan included trainin...

26 Oct 2022

Why forests are key to the climate—and not just to absorb carbon

News / Carbon & Climate

Interconnected disasters ‘the tip of the iceberg’

...floods in Vietnam, Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh and India, and locust outbreaks across multiple countries, as well as Covid-19, and the Arctic heatwave. “The world witnessed a number of record-breakin...

10 Sep 2021

Interconnected disasters ‘the tip of the iceberg’

News / Policy & Finance

Unaccounted deaths plague sand mining operations in India

...flood or any other reason has not been prescribed.” Sub-inspector Manmohan Singh, who prepares road accident data for the NCRB, points out that there are 35 categories of road accident deaths such as ...

9 Jun 2022

Unaccounted deaths plague sand mining operations in India

News / Policy & Finance

Global climate finance coalition opens APAC office to spur funding, promote net-zero target

...flooding as global warming worsens. About 50 GFANZ members are from the region as of end-2021. They hold about US$15 trillion in assets. “What happens in Asia Pacific will determine whether the world ...

9 Jun 2022

Global climate finance coalition opens APAC office to spur funding, promote net-zero target

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