Articles 2020

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.