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School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures.
Nous avons peur de l’été, et des autres à venir. Cette année encore, la Belgique bat un record et il n’y a aucune raison de s’en réjouir. Ce samedi 18 juin 2022 a été le jour tropical (température maximale supérieure ou égale à 30 degrés) le plus précoce jamais enregistré. Ces records sont presque devenus anodins. Pourtant, la fréquence accrue de ces records atteste du dérèglement climatique de la manière la plus tangible qui soit.
António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer
Models indicate that there could be between 25 and 30 extreme events a year by mid-century
Governments not listening to people with disabilities despite them being at high risk, say researchers
Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis. The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming. Carbon dioxide is an odorless, tasteless, transparent gas that forms when people burn fuels, including coal, oil, gasoline and wood.
Exclusive: Nearly half existing facilities will need to close prematurely to limit heating to 1.5C, scientists say
Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
Many are still missing after this month’s floods. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and it can be devastating
The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change and habitat loss.
Une centaine d'Ukrainiens se sont rassemblés aux côtés du mouvement environnemental 'Rise for Climate', samedi à Anvers afin de mettre fin à l'approvisionnement de l'énergie russe en Belgique.
Rapid decarbonization of energy is non-negotiable if we are to avert catastrophic global heating, says the latest UN climate report.
Le Giec (Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat) publie ce lundi 4 avril le dernier volet de son rapport consacré aux moyens de faire face à l’urgence climatique. Tandis que les deux précédents volets de ce 6e rapport des experts du climat de l’ONU ont confirmé l’urgence climatique, ce nouveau rapport titré AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (6e rapport d’évaluation sur le changement climatique : l’atténuation du changement climatique) doit permettre aux gouvernements de trouver des solutions pour limiter le réchauffement à 2°C. Il passe en revue les possibilités existantes pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. La sortie rapide des énergies fossiles (le pétrole et le charron), l’électrification, la décarbonation de l’économie ainsi que la capture et le stockage du carbone figurent parmi les solutions mises en avant. Le Giec constate aussi un ralentissement dans l’augmentation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et une insuffisance des investissements.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, has now published all three sections of its landmark comprehensive review of climate science.
the IPCC’s latest report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (we helped write the chapter on cities) made it explicit that people living in informal settlements in areas such as Bwaise are the most vulnerable urban populations to climate change.
There's no time for complacency, according to Dr. Peter Carter, founder of the Climate Emergency Institute
As Earth’s climate warms, incidences of extreme heat and humidity are rising, with significant consequences for human health. Climate scientists are tracking a key measure of heat stress that can warn us of harmful conditions.
February 28, 2022. Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
On 28 February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body solely dedicated to looking at the science behind climate change, will release a major report on the impacts of the climate crisis and why it is imperative that we act now to address the growing risks. The report, which focuses on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, is expected to detail how climate impacts are already wreaking havoc in every part of the world and how, without much bolder action, more lives will be lost and more livelihoods destroyed. The report will look at challenges and solutions for addressing these risks and minimizing vulnerability unique to the world’s regions, cities and other habitats.
L’actualisation de précédents travaux par des chercheurs de l’Université Columbia et de l’Université de Californie (États-Unis) soutient que la sécheresse qui touche le sud-ouest de l’Amérique du Nord depuis une vingtaine d’années est la plus sévère depuis au moins 1200 ans. Les résultats ont été publiés dans la revue Nature Climate Change ce 14 février.
Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation El-Sayed El-Kosayer met on Sunday to discuss preparations for the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 27), which Egypt will be hosting in Sharm El-Sheikh this year.
Approval of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in a virtual session (14-25 Feb). Press conference (virtual) at 10:00 a.m. CET (Berlin) on Monday, 28 February 2022 – 04.00 EDT (New York), 09:00 GMT (London), 12:00 EAT (Nairobi), 16:00 ICT (Bangkok) Information about media registration is available here. The deadline for registration is Friday, 18 February 2022.
The new top scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants the famed space agency to become a leading voice on climate change science, too.
When we call for help because of a house fire, we don’t expect the fire department to say that we should wait until it has that great new fire truck with better hoses. We don’t expect the firemen to tell us their jackets aren’t quite fireproof so they can’t help.
L'observatoire Climate Chance vient de publier son nouveau panorama de l'action climatique au niveau mondial. S'il y a quelques raisons de s'enthousiasmer avec l'envolée des ventes de voitures électriques ou le boom des énergies renouvelables, sur le fond, la transition n'est pas encore là. Les émissions de gaz à effet serre sont toujours en hausse et notre modèle de production et de consommation, basé sur les énergies fossiles, n'est pas remis en cause.
Le "bilan mondial de l'action climat par secteur" de l'association Climate Chance compile toutes les initiatives des entreprises, États et collectivités de la planète face au réchauffement climatique. Il en ressort cette année que le monde du capital "s'adapte" à la contrainte de la transition énergétique pour continuer de croître.
De eerste vrouwelijke premier van Barbados, een van de kleinste en meest klimaatgevoelige landen ter wereld, wil het internationale financiële systeem laten werken voor de mensen in de frontlinie van de klimaatcrisis. Haar ideeën haalden het tot in het Glasgow-pact en ook uit Brussel komt er steun.
Anuna De Wever, bekend boegbeeld van Youth for Climate vertelt in een openhartig en pittig interview hoe ze de klimaattop in Glasgow heeft beleefd, welk bilan ze van de top maakt en hoe het nu verder moet met onze planeet.
Morocco has become famous for its vast, world-leading solar arrays. But these mega-projects are just the start of the action on climate change that Morocco could be capable of delivering.
Une analyse partagée par Adélaïde Charlier, la coordinatrice francophone de "Youth for Climate" de Belgique. "Il y a eu des côtés positifs, mais surtout négatifs", a-t-elle fait savoir sur le JT de 13h de la RTBF. La jeune militante regrette que la conférence ne soit pas allée plus loin concernant les énergies fossiles et le charbon.
Adélaïde Charlier, coordinatrice de "Youth for Climate", admet qu’il "y a eu des avancées" mais regrette qu’il n’ait pas été décidé d’arrêter complètement les subsides aux énergies fossiles et au charbon
Now it’s a straight fight for survival. The Glasgow Climate Pact, for all its restrained and diplomatic language, looks like a suicide pact. After so many squandered years of denial, distraction and delay, it’s too late for incremental change.
After two weeks of talks in Glasgow, diplomats from almost 200 countries have agreed to ramp up their carbon-cutting commitments, phase out some fossil fuels and increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of climate change.
C’est sa première COP, ici à Glasgow, après le rendez-vous manqué de Madrid. Adelaïde Charlier, l’une des figures de proue du mouvement Youth for climate, avait entrepris, fin 2019, un périple en voilier, vers le Chili, où devait se tenir la COP25. Mais en raison de troubles sociaux dans le pays andin, la conférence climat s’était finalement tenue à Madrid. La COP26, elle ne pouvait donc pas la rater.
Politician says droughts and climate-induced famine in the country are a result of the behaviours of rich nations
Les toutes nouvelles promesses annoncées à la COP26 de Glasgow engendreraient un réchauffement de la planète d'environ 2,4°C d'ici la fin du siècle, selon le groupe de recherche Climate Action Tracker. Cela les placerait loin de la limite de 1,5°C, que les scientifiques estiment nécessaire pour éviter les effets les plus dévastateurs du changement climatique.
Exclusive: Greta Thunberg among young people filing legal suit for climate crisis to be declared a global level 3 emergency
Pandering to the rich has got us into this mess. The correlation between wealth and polluting behaviour could not be clearer
Our civilization needs the greatest economic transformation in human history. We have to halve our rate of consumption, and double our investment rate. That is a fact everyone should know, children should be taught at school, which should make headlines every single day.
Après une première semaine riche en annonces plus ou moins significatives, la COP26 entre dans le dur. Les négociations sur le climat, qui doivent s’achever vendredi, deviennent plus techniques. Les dirigeants sont en train de bûcher sur «de nouveaux plans climatiques d’ici 2023 pour maintenir 1,5°C à portée de main, les flux financiers, les règles de reporting et le fonctionnement des marchés mondiaux du carbone», résume l’European Climate Foundation. Avec trois mauvais élèves qui tentent de freiner les actions ambitieuses : l’Arabie saoudite, le Brésil et l’Australie. Libération fait le point sur trois dossiers brûlants.
Le Climate Action Tracker (CAT), un consortium de scientifiques sur le climat, tire la sonnette d’alarme dans sa mise à jour mondiale annuelle publiée ce mardi. Il pointe le déficit de crédibilité de la COP26 à Glasgow alors que l’action réelle des Etats ne reflète pas les promesses de réduction des émissions, à moyen ou long terme. Les parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur le réchauffement du climat ne font ni assez fort, ni assez vite pour limiter la hausse du thermomètre de la planète, selon le CAT.
België is dit jaar negen plaatsen gezakt op de *Climate Change Performance Index, en komt uit op de 49ste plaats. Ons land ligt ver achter bij de buurlanden en zelfs opkomende landen als China of India.
België is dit jaar negen plaatsen gezakt op de Climate Change Performance Index, en komt uit op de 49ste plaats. Ons land ligt ver achter bij de buurlanden en zelfs opkomende landen als China of India.
Temperature rises will top 2.4C by the end of this century, based on the short-term goals countries have set out, according to research published in Glasgow on Tuesday. That would far exceed the 2C upper limit the Paris accord said the world needed to stay “well below”, and the much safer 1.5C limit aimed for at the Cop26 talks.
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And yet, their leaders continue to avoid making strong commitments on climate action. Heatwaves, droughts, fires and floods will increase in severity and frequency, creating risk and instability for today’s G20 growth models. Most G20 countries share one trait: long and densely populated coastlines, replete with vital infrastructure that will, over time, stand in the way of dangerous turbulence.
Several terms have been used to describe the negative mental health implications of environmental degradation, including ecological grief, solastalgia, climate and eco-anxiety. The American Psychological Association defines eco-anxiety as a “chronic fear of environmental doom”. Some psychiatrists describe this as an anticipated trauma or a “pre-traumatic stress disorder”.
La première grève mondiale pour le climat, c’était en 2018. Depuis, les actions en faveur de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ne font qu’augmenter. En Belgique, le mouvement "Youth for Climate" s’inspire de la démarche de l’activiste suédoise Greta Thunberg et mobilise de milliers de jeunes belges. Retour et analyse sur un mouvement en ascension.
The annual "adaptation gap" report — which published Thursday amid the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow — found that the estimated costs to adapt to the worst effects of warming temperatures such as droughts, floods and rising seas in low-income countries are five to 10 times higher than how much money is currently flowing into those regions.
Humanity injects an almost incomprehensible 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year. The majority of this comes from burning fossil fuels, but a substantial portion, about 16%, arises from how we use the land. Most of these land-use emissions are caused by deforestation, particularly in the tropics.
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, on Monday issued a blistering critique of the world’s failure to rein in global warming, calling on countries to return every year to review their climate targets — not every five years, as the Paris climate agreement spells out. “Even if the recent pledges were clear and credible — and there are serious questions about some of them — we are still careening towards climate catastrophe,” he said at the opening ceremony of COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow.
A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon.
Technologies for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere (direct air capture, or DAC for short) are already in use, but neither their actual benefits for climate protection nor their other environmental impact have yet to be investigated.
Quelques jours avant la COP26 sur le climat et deux ans après leur discours à l'Assemblée nationale, deux jeunes Français, membres de "Youth for Climate" restent sur leur faim. Interrogés par le Huffington Post, ils reviennent sur leur désillusion.
Réalisé auprès de 1 000 Américains par YouGov pour Vice News, The Guardian et Covering Climate Now, les résultats de ce sondage interpelle.
Many economic assessments of the climate crisis “grossly undervalue the lives of young people and future generations”, Prof Nicholas Stern warned on Tuesday, before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Fresh emissions targets from Saudi Arabia and Australia – two of the world’s largest fossil-fuel producers – are due to arrive just in time for global climate talks in Glasgow. These would commit the two countries to reducing domestic emissions to net zero by around mid-century – though both are expected to continue exporting fossil fuels for decades to come.
Kim Le Quang, co-fondateur de Rise for Climate, un collectif citoyen bénévole et engagé né il y a environ trois ans, était ce jeudi matin l’Invité de La Première pour faire le point sur ce dossier. Il a répondu aux questions de Sophie Brems. À quelques jours du début de la COP26 à Glasgow, vous voulez faire entendre votre voix auprès des chefs d’États européens ?
De ‘Belgian Alliance for Climate Action’ vierde vandaag haar 1e verjaardag. Dit initiatief van WWF-België en The Shift kende een vliegende start met ondertussen 84 leden, die samen 278.503 werknemers tellen en 81 miljard omzet vertegenwoordigen.
The scientific consensus that humans are altering the climate has passed 99.9%, according to research that strengthens the case for global action at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow.
The enormous, unprecedented pain and turmoil caused by the climate crisis is often discussed alongside what can seem like surprisingly small temperature increases – 1.5C or 2C hotter than it was in the era just before the car replaced the horse and cart.
Suite à l’occupation du siège Ecolo/Groen, nous avons obtenu une rencontre le 12/10 avec la Ministre du climat Zakia Khattabi. Nos revendications étaient notamment d’obtenir la remise en question de la construction de nouvelles centrales à gaz. la confirmation de la sortie du nucléaire en 2025 et un moratoire sur d'autres projets nuisibles et inutiles.
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ome problems are so big, you can't really see them. Climate change is the perfect example. The basics are simple: the climate is heating up due to fossil fuel use. But the nitty gritty is so vast and complicated that our understanding of it is always evolving. Evolving so rapidly, in fact, that it's basically impossible for humans to keep up.
Communications from young people give me optimism. Potential leaders among young people seem to have an ability to see the forest for the trees regarding climate change policy, a desire to follow the data, and a recognition of the need to address political polarization.
Rarely has there been so much anticipation of a climate summit as there is for COP26 in Glasgow at the end of this month.
Vingt-trois agences fédérales ont planché sur la question durant plusieurs mois. Le quotidien passe en revue leurs conclusions les plus frappantes suivant les ministères concernés : Two dozen federal agencies flagged the biggest dangers posed by a warming planet. The list spreads across American society....
De nombreuses écoles à travers toute la Belgique se mobiliseront vendredi pour une action commune nommée "Wake Up for Climate" et visant à montrer leur engagement dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique, peut-on lire mercredi sur l'événement Facebook créé par la Coalition climat.
An open letter sent on behalf of 1.8 million Fairtrade producers worldwide, ahead of COP26, urges world leaders to keep their promise to provide $100 billion in annual finance to low-income nations disproportionately hit by the climate crisis.
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The most important climate talk at the highest political level—since the Paris climate conference in 2015—is set to take place in Glasgow, Scotland this year, from October 31 to November 12. This is the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This is not only the largest global climate summit, but also the largest global event as the sheer existence of the world will depend on the outcome of this year's conference.
Cette stratégie est explicitée dès l’introduction du Mémorandum : la fonction du mouvement social, selon la Coalition, est d’amener la Belgique à « soutenir pleinement » la politique de la Commission von der Leyen, afin de faire de notre pays un « leader climatique responsable ». Le vieux slogan « System change not climate change » est remisé discrètement aux archives. Il ne s’agit plus de combattre le système mais d’implémenter le « modèle » qui rendra le système « résilient ».
Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.
Vital United Nations climate talks, billed as one of the last chances to stave off climate breakdown, will not produce the breakthrough needed to fulfil the aspiration of the Paris agreement, key players in the talks have conceded.
People born in 2020 will have to face between two and seven times more extreme climate-related events over their lifetimes than people born in 1960, according to estimates from a new study.
If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual.
President Biden's climate envoy John Kerry says that unless the world’s top 20 worst emitters do not take “bold action” to tackle the climate crisis, the global environment will reach a point of no return.
The study from the UN University, the academic and research arm of the UN, looks at 10 different disasters that occurred in 2020 and 2021, and finds that, even though they occurred in very different locations and do not initially appear to have much in common, they are, in fact, interconnected.
Last month, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its latest report, sounding a “code red for humanity.” The IPCC stressed the need for drastic emissions cuts immediately if we want to maintain a habitable planet and warned that we are running out of time to act to avoid climate catastrophe.
The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate-change adaptation and planning.
