Climate News
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Climate change and Covid land Nepal's tea production in hot waterLabour and fertiliser shortages due to the pandemic, combined with heavy rains and diseases, have damaged tea yields and quality, cutting incomes for small-scale farmers. -
Melting Arctic needs new name to match realityChange in the far north is happening so fast that soon the melting Arctic won’t be arctic any more.
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Mass migration set to increase as world warmsClimate change is now driving mass migration, which will only worsen unless governments take global heating seriously. -
Hotter oceans harm seabed life survival prospectsSeabed life is tough: only the young can migrate. But climate change is taking many of them the wrong way.
Climate Opinion
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Will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?– Absolute temperatures are expected to rise more slowly in the tropics than in higher latitudes and polar regions, but the combination of heat and rising humidity will make life more challenging. -
The neglected water and sanitation crisis– Hand washing is one of the best frontline defenses against the virus that causes Covid-19. Yet three billion people – almost half of the world’s population – lack access to basic hand-washing facilities. -
How better climate data can help the municipal market– Climate risks pose a potential threat to the creditworthiness of many debt issuers. Scenario analysis based on standardised climate models can help to clarify the impact of global warming on credit risks and investors’ confidence.
Videos
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Which is Southeast Asia's most advanced clean energy nation?– Southeast Asian nations are racing to bring clean, affordable power to their people, but one country is outrunning them all. How can states make their renewable energy transition a success?
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Sun, waves and steam: How is Indonesia winning with renewables?– Southeast Asia's largest energy consumer has been slow to transition to renewables, but recent policies point to greater expansion of the country's solar, tidal and geothermal energy production.
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Is your pension fuelling climate change?– Pension funds are some of the world's largest investors—holding trillions in assets—billions of which are pumped into fossil fuel companies like Shell, BP, and Total.
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Lawyers file complaint against BP for misleading 'greenwash' in new ad campaign– In the video, environmental law group ClientEarth compares the oil and gas giant's advertisements on its low-carbon investments to a burger chain claiming that they’re vegan because they’ve got salad on the menu.
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