#extreme weather News
UN plastics treaty negotiations resume in Paris to protect the environment from worsening impacts of waste worldwide.
Carbon & Climate
Explained: How climate change worsens avalanches in the Himalayas
Rising temperatures, increased rain and less snowfall are changing the nature of snow in the Himalayas. One consequence is more frequent, more dangerous avalanches, researchers say.
Bihar’s heat action plan contains important strategies but is underfunded and poorly implemented – a theme common across Indian states’ responses to the growing problem of extreme heat, experts say.
Policy & Finance
Montreal Protocol has slowed loss of Arctic sea ice, say scientists
The Montreal Protocol – which aims to reduce emissions of ozone-depleting gases – has had the unexpected benefit of slowing Arctic sea ice loss, according to new research.
Policy & Finance
Modern slavery numbers soar to 50 million, driven by global crises
#extreme weather Opinion
More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now.
Carbon & Climate
We can stop disaster risk spiralling out of control
Greater efforts to limit death and destruction from disasters will help us protect development progress and adapt to climate change.
Stopping Jakarta sinking cannot happen overnight, but the city is finally taking the action needed to stop groundwater extraction.
Carbon & Climate
How to tell moving climate stories
Well-told human-interest stories are key to moving readers and prompting climate action. How to write them in China?
Carbon & Climate
The global climate system's Himalayan hotspot
Policy & Finance
We need creative solutions to the sovereign debt and climate crises
Policy & Finance
Emerging economies can phase out oil and gas fairly – here’s how
#extreme weather Press Releases
International Finance Corporation
IFC, Singapore’s Agrocorp partner to improve food security in Bangladesh
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Climate Action Network Southeast Asia (CANSEA)
'Just transition' pushed by experts, activists and sectors amid record floods, droughts in Asia
