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Nouveau "TALK" sur LIMIT avec Adélaïde Charlier, étudiante à la VUB & U-GENT en sciences politiques et sciences sociales. Elle est devenue célèbre en tant que co-fondatrice et porte-parole de Youth for Climate Belgium, un mouvement de jeunes qui a organisé des marches pour le climat dans de nombreuses villes belges. Devenue le visage des marches pour le climat en Belgique, nous discutons du monde de l'activisme, ses débuts, ses combats et sa vision de l'avenir dans un monde où les mensonges, le greenwashing et la désinformation s'organisent pour conserver le business as usual.

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

Governments not listening to people with disabilities despite them being at high risk, say researchers

Models indicate that there could be between 25 and 30 extreme events a year by mid-century

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.

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

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.

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

The world may be facing a devastating “hidden” collapse in insect species due to the twin threats of climate change and habitat loss.

Many are still missing after this month’s floods. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and it can be devastating

le rapport 2022 du financement du chaos climatique par les banques. Avec résumé en français.

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.

The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

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.

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 Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals.

There's no time for complacency, according to Dr. Peter Carter, founder of the Climate Emergency Institute

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.

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

BERLIN, Feb 28 – 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.

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.

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.

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.

Fossil fuels, cattle and rotting waste produce greenhouse gas responsible for 30% of global heating

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.

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.

This was filmed at a UN press conference during the final days of COP26.

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.

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