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Alan Thornett offers his thoughts on a troubling end to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh.
COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held last month in Sharm El-Sheikh to confront the planetary emergency caused by climate change, failed spectacularly in (...)
Last week’s COP27 summit in Egypt ended with the world still on track for a disastrous rise in global temperatures. But a new climate policy from Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat was one ray of hope for those on the front lines of the climate crisis.
s world leaders gathered for this year’s (...)
Experts say biggest economies must pledge more cuts to carbon emissions but hail agreement to set up loss and damage fund
The world still stands “on the brink of climate catastrophe” after the deal reached at the Cop27 UN climate summit on Sunday, and the biggest economies must make fresh (...)
Rather than a bloated global talking shop, we need something smaller, leaner and fully focused on the crisis at hand
• Bill McGuire is Prof Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL
In the end, the recent shenanigans at the Cop27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh at least ended up making (...)
Cop27 attendees who fought hard to be heard share their highs and lows from Egypt
With about 35,000 delegates from almost 200 countries attending Cop27, navigating the sprawling poorly signposted conference centre in Sharm el-Sheikh has been a huge challenge for grassroots activists, and so (...)
It is clear – half-way through the UN COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt – that the whole UN COP process is facing its biggest crisis since it was launched at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
In terms of climate change, floods in Pakistan recently submerged a third of (...)
Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year
There are more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists at the Cop27 climate conference, a rise of more than 25% from last year and outnumbering any one frontline community affected by the (...)
Attenders say actions of Egyptian authorities are threatening their participation at conference
Members of civil society attending Cop27 have described how surveillance and intimidation by the Egyptian authorities is threatening their participation in the climate conference.
Problems reported (...)
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994. It has a near-universal membership of 192 countries that have ratified the Convention and which collectively are called the Parties to the Convention. Since then, the annual climate conference of (...)
From 6-18 November 2022, the twenty-seventh United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) will convene in Sharm al-Shaikh, Egypt. Typically attended by numerous heads of state and government, these annual conferences are held to address the growing global climate emergency, (...)
Our planet is undeniably in crisis and desperately needs COP27 to succeed. Without concrete action, we are condemning today’s children to a harsher future.
World leaders and climate experts are gathering for pivotal United Nations climate change talks in Egypt. Known as COP27, the conference (...)
Key UN reports published in last two days warn urgent and collective action needed – as oil firms report astronomical profits
The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major reports laid bare how close the planet (...)
A climate scientist explains the forces as La Niña are behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a bucket of ice water and the right in a bucket of hot (...)
A growing field called attribution science is helping researchers rapidly assess the links between global warming and weather disasters.
Pakistan began receiving abnormally heavy rain in mid-June, and, by late August, drenching downpours were declared a national emergency. The southern part (...)
Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme
The world’s chances of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown are diminishing rapidly, as we enter “uncharted territory of destruction” through our failure to cut (...)
Global warming, extreme severity of drought in Europe, heat waves, snowball effect (or cascading reactions) among all these crisis factors... Risk of sudden changes in ocean circulation with incalculable consequences... This article addresses three points: the explanation of this incontestable (...)
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study.
It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been (...)
While official data is yet to be released, this year’s Mediterranean marine heatwave will likely have devastating ecological consequences.
The ocean sustains all life on our planet. It provides food to eat and oxygen to breathe, while playing a key role in moderating our climate. But marine (...)
Storms brought fast, destructive flooding to the mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, just a few weeks after the Yellowstone River flooded.
Heavy rains set off flash flooding in the mountains of southwest Virginia and eastern Tennessee on July 12, 2022. Rivers quickly inundated homes and a (...)
New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower than previously believed.
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One question a (...)
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