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State of the climate: Global temperatures throughout mid-2023 shatter records

The past four months, in particular, have far exceeded any prior records, with September smashing the prior record by around 0.5°C. In this latest “state of the climate” quarterly update, Carbon Brief...

5 Nov 2023

State of the climate: Global temperatures throughout mid-2023 shatter records

News / Policy & Finance

COP27 climate marchers demand justice despite protest restrictions

...floods and droughts, while indigenous people in the Pacific were losing their homelands. "We cannot accept any decision here without loss and damage reparations," she told the crowd, adding that keepi...

17 Nov 2022

COP27 climate marchers demand justice despite protest restrictions

News / Energy

Assam’s rural solar scheme fails to keep the lights on

...flood-prone, and is considered the most vulnerable to climate impacts of the 12 states in the Indian Himalayan region. Between 2016 and 2021, DDUGJY subsidised the provision of a solar power kit consi...

6 Apr 2023

Assam’s rural solar scheme fails to keep the lights on

News / Cities

Cambodia’s Ream National Park transformed from wildlife haven to development zone

...flooded forests of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, despite the wide belief that they had disappeared from the area years ago. Do they remain in Ream? “It’s entirely possible,” she says, but Muñoz has no cu...

6 Apr 2023

Cambodia’s Ream National Park transformed from wildlife haven to development zone

Labourers carry baskets of coal in Tamil Nadu, India.

News / Energy

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

...flooding] to realise how important it is." Banks and venture capitalists need to take more risks on India's climate entrepreneurs, which have struggling to raise capital. Rather than focus solely on l...

19 Sep 2022

Nuclear tipped to be a 'game-changer' for India's energy transition

News / Carbon & Climate

Cities should invest in nature and reap economic benefits from it: World Economic Forum

...flooding and temperatures, as well as stimulated nearly $2 billion in urban redevelopment, while attracting 64,000 visitors a day. Examples like these suggest that cities should invest more in expandi...

17 Jan 2022

Cities should invest in nature and reap economic benefits from it: World Economic Forum

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Opinion / Policy & Finance

There should be some tough talk on loss and damage at COP27

...flooding in 2018 resulted in the loss of around US$371 million, or two per cent of GDP. At the global level, many NGOs, small-island developing states, least developed countries and a few developing c...

9 Nov 2022

There should be some tough talk on loss and damage at COP27

News / Food & Agriculture

As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

Food prices around the world have soared to record levels this year as the Russia-Ukraine war slashes key exports of wheat and fertiliser from those countries, at the same time as droughts, floods and...

9 May 2022

As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The COP of no return

...floods. Millions of people are already battling for survival. And that is with temperatures having risen by just 1.1 degree Celsius, relative to pre-industrial levels. As the Intergovernmental Panel o...

11 Oct 2022

The COP of no return

Press Releases / The Liveability Challenge

Susteon and TeOra win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2023

...floods of 2022 have made way for record heatwaves in April this year. At the same time, climate change is warming our oceans and making it more acidic. Our marine ecosystems are under severe threat, e...

8 Jun 2023

Susteon and TeOra win S$1 million prize each at The Liveability Challenge 2023

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by timber giant as flooding devastates Sarawak

...floodwaters. It has long been understood that deforestation exacerbates both flooding and drought, as does climate change. Sarawak, a biodiversity hotspot, has experienced some of the most intensive l...

2 Jun 2021

Indigenous communities threatened with legal action by timber giant as flooding devastates Sarawak

Press Releases / International Association for Agriculture Sustainability

Sustainable water management reduces the risk of food crises

...flood irrigation and how it mitigates the global water shortage enabling farmers precise, cost-efficient, and sustainable solutions. Most intriguing session of the webinar was the panel discussion. I...

29 Mar 2022

Sustainable water management reduces the risk of food crises

News / Water

Communities kept in the dark about Thailand's Yuam River diversion impacts

...floods, the wildlife. “City people overlook it,” Ruenhom said. “When they see the river they simply see water, but there is much more than that.” The diversion: Public scrutiny and the Yuam The proje...

20 Jan 2022

Communities kept in the dark about Thailand's Yuam River diversion impacts

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

1.5°C warming limit: Unrealistic but we should stick to it

...floods that killed 1,700 people and brought US$30 billion in economic losses. Not after meeting people like Imran Hossain from Bangladesh, who was at COP27 rallying for climate justice and protesting ...

25 Nov 2022

1.5°C warming limit: Unrealistic but we should stick to it

News / Food & Agriculture

Mumbai heatwave leaves fewer fish in the sea for women sellers

...floods, Patil, 55, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Earlier, women (here) could raise 10 children on their earnings. Now we have no money. My mother couldn't send us to school but she taught us f...

13 Apr 2022

Mumbai heatwave leaves fewer fish in the sea for women sellers

News / Carbon & Climate

Mangroves face overwhelmingly negative impacts from climate change in a 2°C warmer world: study

...floods associated with cyclones also threaten mangrove survivability. Approximately half of the world's mangrove forests are located in cyclone-prone areas. How different climate change impacts will ...

21 Jun 2022

Mangroves face overwhelmingly negative impacts from climate change in a 2°C warmer world: study

News / Carbon & Climate

New York, Beijing among major cities likely to face new cyclone risk, projections show

A new study shows that hurricanes and tropical cyclones, typically scourges of low-latitude regions, could start drifting across a wider range to hit populous mid-latitude cities like New York, Boston...

18 Jan 2022

New York, Beijing among major cities likely to face new cyclone risk, projections show

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

At the UN COP26 climate summit last year, nations agreed to make more ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and boost efforts to prevent the worst impacts of climate change. But a year on, ...

28 Oct 2022

Climate change: 'Unprecedented' economic transformation now needed

News / Energy

Controversial Mekong dam in Laos faces economic and regulatory hurdles

...floodplains to the south. “We often compare the Mekong fish migration to the African Serengeti migration, in which people are enthralled to watch the wildebeests, zebras and other animals,” he says. “...

9 Jan 2023

Controversial Mekong dam in Laos faces economic and regulatory hurdles

News / Energy

Singapore scales up hydrogen fuel plans, pledges 2030 emissions cuts

...floods. The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said earlier this year that global emissions should peak by 2025 and drop by over 40 per cent in 2030. Climate activists have said...

25 Oct 2022

Singapore scales up hydrogen fuel plans, pledges 2030 emissions cuts

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