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Time to put the ocean at the heart of climate talks

...flooded downstream rivers. Kang Shichang, head of the State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, says that climate warming will worsen glacier melting and shrinkage, making glacial lake collapses m...

20 八月 2018

Time to put the ocean at the heart of climate talks

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COP24: Coal casts shadow over climate talks in Poland

...floods and cyclones, has doubled since 1990, research has shown. As a result, there’s an extra sense of urgency at the Katowice talks, known as COP24, and delegates are looking to the summit to provid...

7 十二月 2018

COP24: Coal casts shadow over climate talks in Poland

观点 / 城市

How the urban nexus will make your city more resource efficient

...flood risk). After looking at case studies in six very different participating cities—Southend-on-Sea, Miami, Taipei, Eindhoven, Gdansk and Uppsala—the innovative and practical element of our project ...

17 九月 2018

How the urban nexus will make your city more resource efficient

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Climate change pushing Asia towards doom

...flooding. Nineteen of the 25 cities most exposed to a one-metre sea-level rise are in Asia, seven in the Philippines alone. Indonesia will be the country worst hit by coastal flooding, with approximat...

1 八月 2017

Climate change pushing Asia towards doom

A sunset behind an oil refinery in Scotland

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Where global warming's paper trail leads

...floods, and inundation of low-lying farmland,” and said that “new sources of freshwater would be required” to compensate for changes in precipitation. Global changes in air temperature would also “dra...

14 九月 2018

Where global warming's paper trail leads

新闻 / 水

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

...flood. As the monsoon winds bring rainfall from the Arabian Sea to India’s west coast, Marathwada is also in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats – a mountain chain along the coast – and has always be...

13 六月 2019

Surviving India’s drought: ‘People have stopped expecting a decent life’

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Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

...floods and bushfires. Increasing impacts are expected to extend to water, food and even border security, creating the potential for millions of climate refugees in our region before the end of the cen...

10 十月 2018

Australia has two decades to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change

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What’s causing so many changes to India’s monsoons?

For the third year in a row, India’s monsoon season has produced floods in the northwest and the northeast, while southern parts of the country have suffered from a rainfall deficit. Rainfall extremes...

4 九月 2017

What’s causing so many changes to India’s monsoons?

观点 / 城市

Building and living differently in cities

...flooding will be dense urban areas, including at least 136 "megacities" (defined as "port cities with a population greater than one million in 2005"). That doesn't include new cities that will enter t...

1 十一月 2018

Building and living differently in cities

cooling off by Qianhai Lake in Beijing's Shichahai

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Climate change will increase deaths by suicide

...floods and wildfires. It will extend the range of infectious diseases such as Zika virus, malaria and Lyme disease. It will contribute to food and water shortages and fuel forced migration, conflict a...

7 九月 2018

Climate change will increase deaths by suicide

新闻 / 城市

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

...flood. “ “Concerted action by a small number of local mayors and governments can significantly reduce national carbon footprints” Daniel Moran, researcher, Norwegian University of Science and Technol...

7 六月 2018

World’s great cities hold key to fossil fuel cuts

Press Releases / UN Environment

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

...flooded social media channels. Each image, accompanied by the hashtag #BeatAirPollution, came with a call for global action and a personal pledge to make individual lifestyle changes to reduce air po...

6 六月 2019

On World Environment Day, world turns spotlight on air pollution

Firefighters battle the blaze in Sweden in the summer of 2018

观点 / 碳与气候

The climate crisis is here - and time to act is running out

...floods in Kerala, India, caused by unprecedented levels of monsoon rain, left hundreds dead and forced more than one million people to seek refuge in camps and served as a stark reminder of the stakes...

5 九月 2018

The climate crisis is here - and time to act is running out

新闻 / 能源

Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

...floods, famines and "greenhouse refugees". The film referred to data from the company's own scientists that predicted climate change "at rate faster than at any time since end of the ice age." The fil...

24 十一月 2018

Shell: Switching to renewables in the 90s would have bankrupted us

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13 cities may exceed 2C temperature rise by 2020s, say scientists

...floods and other extreme weather events that are related to climate change are hitting cities much harder than scientists had predicted. "How will the cities know how they should develop their resilie...

7 三月 2018

13 cities may exceed 2C temperature rise by 2020s, say scientists

新闻 / 交通

Sturdier, safer, cheaper: India urged to build more roads with plastic waste

...flooding. A technology developed by Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a chemistry professor at Thiagarajar College of Engineering in the southern city of Madurai, uses finely shredded plastic waste that is added...

30 十月 2017

Sturdier, safer, cheaper: India urged to build more roads with plastic waste

观点 / 碳与气候

The climate change fight returns to Paris

...floods, wildfires, and deadly droughts. Given the immediacy of the challenge, what can and should be done to avert crisis? Solutions start with money, and a main objective of the One Planet Summit is ...

11 十二月 2017

The climate change fight returns to Paris

新闻 / 城市

Ellen van Bueren: Why Asian cities need to include their people in urban planning

...flooding. Professor Ellen van Bueren is one of the speakers at the upcoming MIECF conference with the theme of “Shaping of Eco-cities for Inclusive Green Economy”. Image: MIECF But urban planners s...

19 三月 2018

Ellen van Bueren: Why Asian cities need to include their people in urban planning

新闻 / 碳与气候

Consensus eludes climate talks over finance and transparency

...floods, rising sea level have persuaded rich countries to resurrect the once-bankrupt Adaptation Fund, so that they can seek some money to deal with these impacts. However, there is still no agreement...

12 十二月 2018

Consensus eludes climate talks over finance and transparency

Women and children displaced by floods in Pakistan queue for water.

观点 / 碳与气候

The coming wave of climate displacement

Governments around the world are engaged in a series of talks that could fundamentally alter how the movement of people across borders is managed. One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugee...

28 五月 2018

The coming wave of climate displacement

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This year’s haze is set to cost Singapore more than 2015’s S$1.83 billion. Who pays for the losses?

Economists suggest the 2026 haze will cost Singapore more than the 2015 episode, while other estimates state that …
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Concerns raised as data centres go underwater in China

A Chinese firm is deploying data servers to the sea for natural cooling. Experts say more information on …
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Singapore widens haze crackdown to Kalimantan, targeting 10 Indonesian firms

Singapore has targeted 10 Indonesian companies under its haze law in four days; three of them supply Asia …
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AI wildfire platform seeks Indonesia partnerships as regional haze worsens

Earthshot Prize finalist Satellites on Fire uses AI, satellite imagery and ground data to detect blazes earlier, and …
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Philippine president orders creation of carbon market framework

The framework’s contribution to Philippine climate ambition remains uncertain, as the country’s updated pledge lacks clarity on how …
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Asean turns to World Bank to close clean energy, climate adaptation financing gaps

Southeast Asian finance ministers seek private capital, guarantees and technical support as region faces costly energy transition and …

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