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26 juin 2024
Het affakkelen van gas in de fossiele brandstofindustrie klom vorig jaar naar het hoogste niveau sinds 2019, ondanks de groeiende internationale druk om de vervuilende praktijk aan banden te leggen.
23 juin 2024
Environ 500 personnes ont participé dimanche à une marche pour le climat à Bruxelles, a indiqué l’organisation à l’origine de l’évènement Rise For Climate Belgium. Par le biais de cet évènement intitulé "Touche pas à mon futur", l’organisation espère inciter la société civile à s’opposer à l’éventuelle réduction des politiques climatiques et aux politiques d’austérité, alors que l’extrême droite monte un peu partout en Europe.
11 juin 2024
Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion. In 2023, banks financed $705 billion in fossil fuel financing with $347 billion going to fossil fuel expansion alone.
07 juin 2024
With current policies the Earth is on track to a warming of around 3 °C above preindustrial temperatures, a level of heat our planet has not seen for millions of years. Ecosystems, human society and infrastructure are not adapted to these temperatures. Due to non-linear effects, the impacts will be much more severe than just three times as bad as after 1 °C of warming. Land areas will continue to warm much more than the global average, many regions twice as much or even more. Extreme heat will become far more frequent and a major cause of human mortality, making large parts of the tropical land area essentially too hot to live. In addition, extreme rainfall and flooding, droughts, wildfires and harvest failures will increase in frequency and severity. The destructive power of tropical cyclones will also increase. Sea-level rise will accelerate further, and the destabilization of ice sheets will commit our descendants to loss of coastal cities and island nations. The risk of crossing devastating and irreversib
05 juin 2024
Annually updated, IPCC AR6 consistent indicators of human-induced global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and the remaining global carbon budget.
Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles. We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activit
03 juin 2024
If currently implemented policies are continued with no increase in ambition, there is a 90% chance that the Earth will warm between 2.3°C and 4.5°C, with a best estimate of 3.5°C.
02 juin 2024
This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies. The Guardian asked young climate activists around the world what they want from the elections and whether politics is working in the fight to halt global heating.
31 mai 2024
Climate Obstruction Across Europe, coordinated by the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) and published via Oxford University Press, reveals extensive networks impeding climate action within the region and surrounding states. In Italy and Germany, far-right networks spread misinformation by questioning climate science’s validity, while in Spain and the UK, blame-shifting and deflecting responsibility for climate action are common. European-based fossil fuel industries, like Shell, engage in greenwashing, by framing gas as a ‘bridging technology crucial for the energy transition’, delaying genuine progress.
Climate Obstruction Across Europe, coordinated by the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN), is the first book to document the development and nature of climate obstruction activities across Europe, which are efforts to deliberately slow or block climate action. Climate obstruction strategies range from outright denial to more subtle forces of delay and the spread of disinformation
30 mai 2024
Women and gender-diverse people bear the brunt of climate change’s negative affects. If Australia wants to be taken seriously on climate action, this needs addressing.
28 mai 2024
Insight and inspiration in turbulent times. People have widely varying beliefs about climate change. A surprising number still think that it’s a hoax, or that it’s a trivial problem. At the other end of the opinion spectrum, some say it signals the end of the world and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. Between those extremes are lots of folks who believe climate change is a serious dilemma, but we can deal with it by installing solar panels, nuclear power, solar radiation management technologies, and/or machines to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, after which we will continue to live mostly the way we do today.
27 mai 2024
Le sommet européen Climate Chance Europe 2024 s'est déroulé les 8 et 9 février 2024 à Liège. Sur l'invitation de M. Philippe Henry, vice-président de la Wallonie et ministre du Climat, de l’Énergie, de la Mobilité et des Infrastructures, dans le cadre de la présidence belge du Conseil de l'Union européenne, j'ai eu l'honneur de donner un discours lors de la séance plénière d'ouverture. En voici la vidéo.
22 mai 2024
Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn
17 mai 2024
Résumé des programmes suite au Débat Climat avec 7 candidat.es aux élections européennes et après consultation de leurs sites
Le débat a été modéré par Vinz Kanté, fondateur du média Limit Il s'est tenu à l'espace Talk C.E.C., chaussée de Wavre 143 à Ixelles où l'exposition Mers et Océans sera ouverte jusqu'au 7 juillet (https://talk-cec.com) Quelles sont les solutions proposées par nos politiques pour faire face à l'urgence climatique ? Après le mot de bienvenue de Talk C.E.C. et l'introduction de Rise for Climate, nous avons invité les candidats à présenter leur bilan du Pacte vert européen au cours du mandat 2019-2024 et leur programme climat pour le prochain mandat 2024-2029. Ensuite les collectifs Rise for Climate, Youth for Climate, Grands Parents pour le climat, Extinction Rebellion, et Mouvement d'Action Paysanne ont posé leurs questions ainsi que le public présent dans la salle.
14 mai 2024
Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila
12 mai 2024
Record-breaking temperatures were recorded across the globe in 2023. Without climate action, adverse climate-related health impacts are expected to worsen worldwide, affecting billions of people. Temperatures in Europe are warming at twice the rate of the global average, threatening the health of populations across the continent and leading to unnecessary loss of life. The Lancet Countdown in Europe was established in 2021, to assess the health profile of climate change aiming to stimulate European social and political will to implement rapid health-responsive climate mitigation and adaptation actions. In 2022, the collaboration published its indicator report, tracking progress on health and climate change via 33 indicators and across five domains.
11 mai 2024
Here, we show that the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) provides a stronger constraint on equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS), the global warming from increasing greenhouse gases, after accounting for temperature patterns. Feedbacks governing ECS depend on spatial patterns of surface temperature (“pattern effects”); hence, using the LGM to constrain future warming requires quantifying how temperature patterns produce different feedbacks during LGM cooling versus modern-day warming. Combining data assimilation reconstructions with atmospheric models, we show that the climate is more sensitive to LGM forcing because ice sheets amplify extratropical cooling where feedbacks are destabilizing. Accounting for LGM pattern effects yields a median modern-day ECS of 2.4°C, 66% range 1.7° to 3.5°C (1.4° to 5.0°C, 5 to 95%), from LGM evidence alone. Combining the LGM with other lines of evidence, the best estimate becomes 2.9°C, 66% range 2.4° to 3.5°C (2.1° to 4.1°C, 5 to 95%), substantially narrowing uncertainty compared t
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet
08 mai 2024
Editorial: Top experts believe global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. That frightening prediction must spur us to action
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds
07 mai 2024
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
02 mai 2024
Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy companies operating in countries such as the US, UK, Germany and Norway appear to have installed technology that could stop researchers from identifying methane, carbon dioxide emissions and pollutants at industrial facilities involved in the disposal of unprofitable natural gas, known in the industry as flaring.
29 avril 2024
VN-klimaatbaas Simon Stiell hoopt dat de volgende klimaattoppen het met veel minder bezoekers kunnen stellen. De laatste top in Dubai was een recordeditie met bijna 84.000 deelnemers.
22 avril 2024
Inheemse gemeenschappen verzetten in hun directe omgeving belangrijk onbetaald werk in de strijd tegen de klimaatverandering en voor natuurbeheer. Werk dat in feite de hele wereld ten goede komt. Moet dit werk worden vergoed?
17 avril 2024
Global projections of macroeconomic climate-change damages typically consider impacts from average annual and national temperatures over long time horizons1–6. Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes7,8. Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline without climate impacts, likely range of 11–29% accounting for physical climate and empirical uncertainty). These damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2 °C by sixfold over this near-term time frame and thereafter diverge strongly dependent on emission choices. Committed damages arise predominantly through changes in average tempe
Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds
12 avril 2024
Decarbonization efforts and sustainability transformations represent highly contested socio-political projects. Yet, they often encounter various forms of depoliticization. This article illuminates how a grand socio-ecological challenge like the energy transition gets depoliticized by an unusual suspect, namely Germany's Green Party. Based on a qualitative content analysis of Green Party programs, party conventions, and additional documents published between 1980 and 2021, this article traces how the Green Party has depoliticized the energy transition over time, emphasizing a shift from radical societal change to ecological modernization. The changing stance of the German Greens on the country's energy transition reflects more profound changes of a future society the party collectively envisions through their energy and climate change agenda. These changes result from a struggle between moderates advocating incremental political reforms and radicals aiming for more fundamental and systemic societal change.
09 avril 2024
Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert
28 mars 2024
World’s fossil-fuel producers on track to nearly quadruple output from newly approved projects by decade’s end, report finds
25 mars 2024
.Contribution to (a) effective radiative forcing (ERF) and (b) global surface temperature change from component emissions for1750–2019based on Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models and (c) net aerosol ERF for 1750–2014 from different lines of evidence.
Het klimaatagentschap van de VN wordt geconfronteerd met ‘ernstige financiële uitdagingen’. Regeringen stellen niet voldoende middelen ter beschikking, terwijl de takenlast van het agentschap voortdurend groeit.
19 mars 2024
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed. Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed.
16 mars 2024
Dr Sarah Benn has long been concerned about the climate crisis, diligently recycling until she was “blue in the face”. But the rise of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion in 2019 inspired her and her husband to go further. “We thought: well, if we don’t do it then who else is going to?”
15 mars 2024
Et si lutter efficacement contre le réchauffement climatique devrait passer par l'utilisation d'une IA experte dans le domaine ?
Deze week trekken de kiezers van de op drie na grootste uitstoter ter wereld opnieuw naar de stembus. Poetin kan rekenen op nog eens zes jaar aan de macht, en dat heeft ook gevolgen voor de wereldwijde strijd tegen de klimaatverandering.
Elizabeth Kolbert on a record-breaking rise in global sea-surface temperatures, which suggests that scientists may not understand how fast the climate is changing.
13 mars 2024
Evidence shows a continuing increase in the frequency and severity of global heatwaves1,2, raising concerns about the future impacts of climate change and the associated socioeconomic costs3,4. Here we develop a disaster footprint analytical framework by integrating climate, epidemiological and hybrid input–output and computable general equilibrium global trade models to estimate the midcentury socioeconomic impacts of heat stress. We consider health costs related to heat exposure, the value of heat-induced labour productivity loss and indirect losses due to economic disruptions cascading through supply chains. Here we show that the global annual incremental gross domestic product loss increases exponentially from 0.03 ± 0.01 (SSP 245)–0.05 ± 0.03 (SSP 585) percentage points during 2030–2040 to 0.05 ± 0.01–0.15 ± 0.04 percentage points during 2050–2060. By 2060, the expected global economic losses reach a total of 0.6–4.6% with losses attributed to health loss (37–45%), labour productivity loss (18–37%) and i
11 mars 2024
Activist accuses Sweden of being ‘very good at greenwashing’ as group sits outside building’s main entrance. Greta Thunberg has accused Sweden of being “very good at greenwashing” as she staged a protest along with about 50 other activists outside her home country’s parliament.
10 mars 2024
Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says
08 mars 2024
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New study reveals insight into which animals are most vulnerable to extinction due to climate change
- University of OxfordA new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate change. The results, published today in the journal Science, could help to identify species most at risk today from human-driven climate change.
07 mars 2024
Near-real time updates of key global climate variables from the the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
29 février 2024
We owe all children a planet Earth as wonderful as the one we have enjoyed!
19 février 2024
Ce rapport analyse les obstacles et leviers à la lumière de projets inspirants en matière d'adaptation des villes à l'élévation du niveau de la mer dans le Pacifique.
17 février 2024
Rapid ocean warming and unusually hot winter days recorded as human-made global heating combines with El Niño
16 février 2024
De nieuwe ultrarechtse president van Argentinië Javier Milei wil de kettingzaag zetten in de milieu- en klimaatregels van het land. Voorlopig komt hij van een kale reis thuis.
09 février 2024
RealClimate: A new paper was published in Science Advances today. Its title says what it is about: "Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course." The study follows one by Danish colleagues which made headlines last July, likewise looking for early warning signals for approaching an AMOC tipping point (we discussed it here),
Scientists now have a better understanding of the risks ahead and a new early warning signal to watch for.
Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible
Mitigating climate change necessitates global cooperation, yet global data on individuals’ willingness to act remain scarce. In this study, we conducted a representative survey across 125 countries, interviewing nearly 130,000 individuals. Our findings reveal widespread support for climate action. Notably, 69% of the global population expresses a willingness to contribute 1% of their personal income, 86% endorse pro-climate social norms and 89% demand intensified political action. Countries facing heightened vulnerability to climate change show a particularly high willingness to contribute. Despite these encouraging statistics, we document that the world is in a state of pluralistic ignorance, wherein individuals around the globe systematically underestimate the willingness of their fellow citizens to act. This perception gap, combined with individuals showing conditionally cooperative behaviour, poses challenges to further climate action. Therefore, raising awareness about the broad global support for climat
07 février 2024
Un tour du monde sans escale en huit jours dans un avion avec l'hydrogène vert pour carburant: après Solar Impulse, Bertrand Piccard lance Climate Impulse, un nouveau projet pour promouvoir les technologies zéro émission et "montrer qu'il y a des solutions".Conçu en partenariat avec le chimiste belge Syensqo, qui s'est scindé en décembre de Solvay, l'avion aura un double fuselage avec le cockpit installé au milieu et 37 mètres d'envergure, moitié moins que Solar Impulse.
On connaissait l’avion propulsé à l’énergie solaire : Solar Impulse. Voici à présent le projet Climate Impulse, qui pour objectif de développer un avion qui volera à l’hydrogène. L’explorateur suisse Bertrand Piccard et Ilham Kadri, ex-PDG du groupe belge Solvay et à présent directrice générale de Syensqo (société issue de la scission du groupe chimique Solvay) étaient les invités de la Première ce matin pour nous parler de ce nouveau projet qui mêle technologie et climat.
06 février 2024
John Podesta stapt in de schoenen van VS-klimaatgezant John Kerry, die vorige maand zijn afscheid aankondigde. Wie is de man die de rol van Amerikaans klimaatambassadeur op zich neemt?
05 février 2024
Anthropogenic emissions drive global-scale warming yet the temperature increase relative to pre-industrial levels is uncertain. Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature records preserved in sclerosponge carbonate skeletons, we demonstrate that industrial-era warming began in the mid-1860s, more than 80 years earlier than instrumental sea surface temperature records. The Sr/Ca palaeothermometer was calibrated against ‘modern’ (post-1963) highly correlated (R2 = 0.91) instrumental records of global sea surface temperatures, with the pre-industrial defined by nearly constant (<±0.1 °C) temperatures from 1700 to the early 1860s. Increasing ocean and land-air temperatures overlap until the late twentieth century, when the land began warming at nearly twice the rate of the surface oceans. Hotter land temperatures, together with the earlier onset of industrial-era warming, indicate that global warming was already 1.7 ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2020. Our result is 0.5 °C higher than IPCC estim
23 janvier 2024
EUCityCalc has officially launched its free, open source online platform that allows local councils and other stakeholders to visualise and simulate low-carbon scenarios for their towns and cities, as well as to assess the trade-offs related to available choices.
21 janvier 2024
The Center for Countering Digital Hate put out a new report a few days ago, in which they warn that climate misinformation continuous to flourish on YouTube. They want YouTube to take more action. I had a look and I don't like what I read.
17 janvier 2024
Small modular reactors (SMRs) have been the subject of endless hype in recent years but in fact, no SMRs have ever been built, none are being built now and in all likelihood none will ever be built because of the prohibitive costs. SMRs are defined as reactors with a capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) or less with serial factory production of reactor components (or ‘modules’). No SMRs have been built, but dozens of small (<300 MW) power reactors have been built in numerous countries, without factory production of reactor components.
16 janvier 2024
This report written by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, provides an in-depth economic analysis of how climate change will reshape health landscapes over the next two decades. It highlights increased risks from new pathogens, pollution and extreme weather events and shows how these will exacerbate current health inequities, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable populations.
15 janvier 2024
To truly evaluate your impact on the environment, you have to go way beyond recycle bins and energy bills...
13 janvier 2024
New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.
11 janvier 2024
Il y a de quoi devenir fou, ballotté entre les injonctions consuméristes de l’économie de marché et les consignes de frugalité qu’impose la crise climatique. Prenez, cette semaine, la grand-messe du CES, le Consumer Electronics Show de Las Vegas, immense débauche technologique à destination du grand public et rendez-vous incontournable des prosélytes de l’innovation.
09 janvier 2024
Exclusive: First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows
08 janvier 2024
James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s
The European Commission has received an open letter signed by 110 academics, businesses, civil society organisations and research institutions urging the EU to separate emissions reductions, land-based sequestration and permanent carbon removals in the EU’s post-2030 climate framework. This separation should be at the heart of both the setting and the implementation of the 2040 target and associated plans.
04 janvier 2024
A focus on economic stability in the near-term makes the climate crisis worse in the long-term.
03 janvier 2024
Last year I was fortunate enough to be joined by four remarkable women in the British environmental movement. We were speaking at a Deep Adaptation conference in Glastonbury. The way the discussion…
15 décembre 2023
Biotech firms are using climate goals opportunistically in an attempt to force through the deregulation of genetically modified crops.
13 décembre 2023
New path to transition away from fossil fuels marred by lack of finance and loopholes COP28 in Dubai sends an important signal on the end of fossil fuels but leaves more questions than answers on how to ensure a fair and funded transition that is based on science and equity
11 décembre 2023
Découvrez le Sommet Climate Chance Europe 2024 à Liège, un événement clé sur la résilience climatique et les solutions basées sur la nature.
08 décembre 2023
Nu de VN-klimaattop in Dubai zijn tweede week is ingegaan, neemt de druk toe om in het akkoord te praten over een geleidelijke afbouw van fossiele brandstoffen. Maar ook de tegenstand tegen dat idee groeit, met oliestaat Saudi-Arabië op kop.
06 décembre 2023
Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
05 décembre 2023
Referring to the Paris Agreement’s target of keeping Earth from warming no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution, the number has become a rallying cry for climate advocates and scientists, who say the goal is humanity’s best bet on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes of climate change by the end of the century. Venturing even 0.5 degrees past that threshold could drastically increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather, biodiversity loss, famine and water scarcity, as well as make it more likely that tipping points accelerate warming further, climate scientists say.
04 décembre 2023
‘We need you,’ says Scientist Rebellion, which includes authors of IPCC reports on climate breakdown, as diplomats meet for Cop28
The effect of increasing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) on global average surface air temperature might be expected to be constant, but this is not the case. A study published in the journal Science shows that carbon dioxide becomes a more potent greenhouse gas as more is released into the atmosphere.
Without a phase out of fossil fuels, by 2100, 1 in 12 hospitals worldwide will be at high risk of total or partial shutdown from extreme weather events — a total of 16,245 hospitals. Without a phase out of fossil fuels, all of these 16,245 hospitals will require adaptation, where suitable. Even with this enormous investment, for many, relocation will be the only option.
01 décembre 2023
Zondag 3 december gaat in Brussel-Noord om 13 uur de Klimaatmars door, terwijl in Dubai de COP28 van start gaat. Marc Alexander van de Climate Express stlt 12 minimale eisen die volledig moeten vervuld worden alvorens van een echt klimaatbeleid gesproken kan worden.
30 novembre 2023
Dit is wat er op het spel staat op de VN-klimaattop in Dubai: een internationaal akkoord over de uitfasering van fossiele brandstoffen. Zal dat lukken, met een oliestaat die de klimaattop organiseert?
UN Climate Change News, 14 November 2023 – A new report from UN Climate Change finds national climate action plans remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Even with increased efforts by some countries, the report shows much more action is needed now to bend the world’s emissions trajectory further downward and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
World Meteorological Organization says 2023 will be hottest year on record, leaving ‘trail of devastation and despair’
26 novembre 2023
Historical responsibility for climate change is radically shifted when colonial rule is taken into account, Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
24 novembre 2023
Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more than double last decade’s annual average
Ziet u ook de bomen door het bos niet meer in de wirwar van klimaatrapporten, energiecijfers en CO2-concentraties? In aanloop naar de klimaattop in Dubai lijsten we de belangrijkste cijfers en trends voor u op.
23 novembre 2023
A new paper published in the journal Science has warned that melting areas in the Arctic have become 'frontlines for resource extraction', describing it as a 'modern day gold rush'.
16 novembre 2023
The State of the Cryosphere 2023 – Two Degrees is Too High report shows that all of the Earth’s frozen parts will experience irreversible damage at 2°C of global warming, with disastrous consequences for millions of people, societies, and nature. Confirming that just 2°C of global warming will trigger irreversible loss to Earth’s ice sheets, mountain glaciers and snow, sea ice, permafrost, and polar oceans, it updates the latest science and highlights the global impacts from cryosphere loss.
15 novembre 2023
World Meteorological Organization sees ‘no end in sight to the rising trend’, largely driven by fossil fuel burning
14 novembre 2023
La démission climatique, ou "climate quitting" consiste à démissionner pour dénoncer le manque d'efforts de son entreprise en matière de transition écologique. Un phénomène de plus en plus commun.
04 novembre 2023
Finance needs of developing countries now 10-18 times as big as international public finance flows Growing gap results from rising adaptation needs and faltering adaptation finance Failure to enhance adaptation has huge implications for losses and damages
25 octobre 2023
Joint action is essential for planetary and human health Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. This overall environmental crisis is now so severe as to be a global health emergency. The world is currently responding to the climate crisis and the nature crisis as if they were separate challenges. This is a dangerous mistake. The 28th UN Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change is about to be held in Dubai while the 16th COP on biodiversity is due to be held in Turkey in 2024. The research communities that provide the evidence for the two COPs are unfortunately largely separate, but they were brought together for a workshop in 2020 when they concluded: “Only by considering climate and biodiversity as parts of the same complex problem … can solutions be developed that avoid maladaptation and max
Annual Conference 2023 "THE FAILURE OF GREEN CAPITALISM: FINDINGS, OBJECTIONS, ALTERNATIVES"15 September 2023Chair: Sighard Neckel (Spokesperson DFG Humaniti...
De Europese Unie zal haar eigen energie- en klimaatdoelen niet halen op basis van de plannen die tot nog toe zijn ingediend. Dat blijkt uit een vernietigende doorlichting van Climate Action Network Europe, een koepel van milieuorganisaties.
24 octobre 2023
Scientists warn of unlivable heat and food shortages after analyzing 35 planetary vital signs.
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.
the starkest warning yet that human activity is pushing Earth into a climate crisis that could threaten the lives of up to 6 billion people this century, stating candidly: “We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered.” Writing in the journal Biosciences, the coalition of 12 researchers, spanning North America, Europe and Asia, state in unusually stark language: “As scientists, we are increasingly being asked to tell the public the truth about the crises we face in simple and direct terms. The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023.”
23 octobre 2023
Ocean-driven melting of floating ice-shelves in the Amundsen Sea is currently the main process controlling Antarctica’s contribution to sea-level rise. Using a regional ocean model, we present a comprehensive suite of future projections of ice-shelf melting in the Amundsen Sea. We find that rapid ocean warming, at approximately triple the historical rate, is likely committed over the twenty-first century, with widespread increases in ice-shelf melting, including in regions crucial for ice-sheet stability. When internal climate variability is considered, there is no significant difference between mid-range emissions scenarios and the most ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement. These results suggest that mitigation of greenhouse gases now has limited power to prevent ocean warming that could lead to the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The authors use a regional ocean model to project ocean-driven ice-shelf melt in the Amundsen Sea. Already committed rapid ocean warming drives increased melt, regard
16 octobre 2023
Exclusive: UK climate campaign group Possible calls for ‘polluter pays’ tax based on vehicle size
Dans ce document explicatif court et facile à lire, nous analysons les effets du changement climatique sur la paix et la sécurité.
12 octobre 2023
UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists
03 octobre 2023
Catastrophic climate change and the collapse of human societies By Josep Peñuelas, Sandra Nogué National Science Review, Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2023 The scientific community has focused the agend…
30 septembre 2023
The renowned US scientist’s new book examines 4bn years of climate history to conclude we are in a ‘fragile moment’ but there is still time to act
27 septembre 2023
Dr. Michael E. Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media (PCSSM). Dr. Mann received his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from Yale University. His research interests include the study of Earth's climate system and the science, impacts and policy implications of human-caused climate change.
23 septembre 2023
An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis
20 septembre 2023
De Europese Unie gebruikt heffingen op CO2-uitstoot om een gaspijplijn in Roemenië te financieren. Brussel beweert dat het project de uitstoot zal verminderen in vergelijking met steenkool, maar critici veroordelen de beslissing.
17 septembre 2023
Le fonctionnement de l’économie mondiale repose encore massivement sur les combustibles fossiles, qui nous tuent littéralement. Il est non seulement impératif de refuser tout nouvel investissement dans l’infrastructure fossile, mais il faut également fermer et déconstruire l’infrastructure fossile existante.
16 septembre 2023
California has sued five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, alleging that they engaged in a 'decades-long campaign of deception' about climate change and the risks posed by fossil fuels.
14 septembre 2023
Techniques such as solar radiation management may have unintended consequences, scientists say
13 septembre 2023
First complete ‘scientific health check’ shows most global systems beyond stable range in which modern civilisation emerged
12 septembre 2023
To prevent catastrophe, these countries must stop new extraction projects n: Just 20 countries, led overwhelmingly by the United States, Canada and Russia, are responsible for nearly 90 percent of new greenhouse gas emissions threatened by new oil and gas fields and fracking wells planned between now and 2050. If these extraction projects are allowed to proceed, they will lock in climate chaos and an unlivable future.
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Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans
11 septembre 2023
Ce 27 février, 40 militant·es d'Attac, Extinction Rebellion et Youth for Climate bloquent l'entrée et visitent l'intérieur du ministère de l'Économie et des Finances pour exiger l'annulation des dettes des…
08 septembre 2023
Access to robust and current information is essential for ensuring evidence-based policy and practice and identifying research gaps. For these purposes, more than 90 authors from about 30 national public authorities and institutions contributed to a comprehensive synthesis of the current evidence in Germany, published as 14 articles in the Journal of Health Monitoring.
06 septembre 2023
Het burgercollectief Rise for Climate Belgium doet een oproep om op 17 september; Autoloze zondag, te betogen in Brussel voor het "geleidelijk maar snel" afstappen van fossiele brandstoffen. Dat zegt Kim Lê Quang, voorzitter van het burgercollectief.
Whilst fossil fuel companies' history of climate denial is common knowledge, there are still a worrying number of revolving door cases between fossil fuel companies and our EU politicians, Martha Myers writes.
05 septembre 2023
Lancet study finds 'green growth' policies fall far short of what's needed to prevent dangerous change…
04 septembre 2023
Plusieurs événements vont ponctuer cette rentrée 2023 : la Semaine africaine pour le climat, le Sommet de l'ambition climatique, la réunion du G20, le Sommet international sur le climat et l'énergie. Ils auront tous un seul et même objectif : mettre au diapason les positions de chacun afin de faire de la COP28 de Dubaï, en fin d'année, un succès.
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Rise for Climate Belgium appelle à manifester pour une sortie "progressive mais rapide" des énergies fossiles le dimanche 17 septembre à 14h00 à Bruxelles, a indiqué lundi Kim Lê Quang, cofondateur du collectif citoyen.
31 août 2023
A coalition of British Columbians are organizing their municipalities to take oil and gas companies to court over the costs of the climate crisis
Le 4 septembre n’est pas uniquement la date de la rentrée scolaire en France. Ce lundi marquera aussi l’ouverture de l’Africa Climate Summit, la toute première conférence consacrée aux questions climatiques en Afrique, qui se tiendra pendant trois jours à Nairobi, au Kenya. Plus d’une vingtaine de chefs d’État ou de gouvernement africains ainsi que 20 000 membres de délégations du monde entier – y compris le secrétaire général des Nations unies, António Guterres – ont confirmé leur venue.
29 août 2023
f global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, University of Western Ontario's Joshua Pearce says it is likely that mainly richer humans will be responsible for the death of roughly one billion mainly poorer humans over the next century. The oil and gas industry, which includes many of the most profitable and powerful businesses in the world, is directly and indirectly responsible for more than 40% of carbon emissions—impacting the lives of billions of people, many living in the world's most remote and low-resourced communities. A new study proposes aggressive energy policies that would enable immediate and substantive decreases to carbon emissions and recommends a heightened level of government, corporate and citizen action to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy, aiming to minimize the number of projected human deaths.
28 août 2023
Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists
More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published in Environmental Research Letters. This would mean cattle farming would face potentially lethal heat stress in much of the world, including Central America, tropical South America, Equatorial Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
As we mark 100 days until the COP28 UN climate summit, the urgency of addressing the climate crisis has never been more palpable. Global failures to mitigate emissions and adapt to the impacts continue to wreak havoc on the planet, and we’re seeing this in a range of ways. Unprecedented extreme weather events have occurred with frightening regularity in 2023. In March, over 500 people lost their lives when Cyclone Freddy struck Malawi. Last month, flooding in the Philippines caused by Typhoons Doksuri and Khanun displaced more than 300,000 people, and the recent wildfires that ravaged Hawaii – in part exacerbated by climate change – continue to make for distressing headlines. This list is likely to become even longer by the end of the year, when COP28 gets underway in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say
26 août 2023
The Youth Climate Justice Fund supports with core flexible funding to emerging youth climate justice collectives. Groups can apply for a grant of up to USD 10,000, which can be used for a period of 12 months.
21 août 2023
Cooperation is not only in the best interests of all countries, but is absolutely necessary for the survival of the planet
Link to climate activism is seven times stronger for anger than it is for hope, say Norwegian researchers
19 août 2023
De recente verwoestende overstromingen in Peking hebben het Chinese “Sponge Cities Project” danig op de proef gesteld. Hoewel de hoofdstad onder het project extreme regenval zou moeten aankunnen, lieten tientallen mensen het leven en moest een gloednieuwe “sponsluchthaven” sluiten.
During the past decades, the idea of acting to counteract the damage done to the ecosystem by humankind's activities has moved along at least two planning stages.
12 août 2023
Capitalism's endless growth paradigm can't be squared with sustainability. But no one – from politicians to the protest movement – is willing to admit the truth
In januari wordt Celeste Saulo de eerste vrouw aan het hoofd van de Wereld Meteorologische Organisatie van de VN. Ze verdedigt met vuur het globale belang van meteorologische diensten en ziet een geëngageerde samenleving als de basis van verandering. ‘We hebben een ontwrichtende samenleving nodig.’
09 août 2023
Articifiële intelligentie is anno 2023 hip en biedt tal van mogelijkheden. Maar de technologie komt ook met grote risico’s, waarschuwen activisten en AI-onderzoekers. ‘Bedrijven moeten verantwoordelijk kunnen worden gesteld als AI-modellen schade berokkenen.’
06 août 2023
Human-caused climate disruption and El Niño push temperature in mountains to 37C
05 août 2023
The celebrated science broadcaster and environmental activist says we have to stop elevating the economy and politics over the state of our world
04 août 2023
Antarctica’s sea ice levels are plummeting as extreme weather events happen faster than scientists predicted
03 août 2023
Bernie Sanders represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate.
02 août 2023
More than a century of research shows that burning fossil fuels warms the climate – that’s exactly why granting new North Sea oil and gas licenses is a bad idea.
01 août 2023
Exclusive: Long list of ‘sensitive’ topics for petrostate include oil and gas production, emissions and Yemen war crimes
29 juillet 2023
Op woensdag 26 juni werd Jim Skea verkozen tot nieuwe voorzitter van het IPCC, een organisatie van de Verenigde Naties die de risico’s van de klimaatcrisis evalueert. Wat is zijn visie? ‘Elke fractie van een graad maakt een verschil. Dat moeten we onthouden.’
25 juillet 2023
The method used to conduct an attribution study consists of eight steps, described here. The first step is the selection of an extreme event to study. After selecting an extreme weather event to study, the first step is to define the event, which provides a framework for the study. Researchers determine the geographical boundaries of the most impacted area, the best index to quantify the meteorological extreme (eg. maximum temperature, average rainfall, etc), and the duration of the event.
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Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change
- World Weather AttributionFollowing a record hot June, large areas of the US and Mexico, Southern Europe and China experienced extreme heat in July 2023, breaking many local high temperature records.
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A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis
24 juillet 2023
RealClimate: For various reasons I'm motivated to provide an update on my current thinking regarding the slowdown and tipping point of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). I attended a two-day AMOC session at the IUGG Conference the week before last, there's been interesting new papers, and in the light of that I have been changing
As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer
21 juillet 2023
There has been a strong push to promote increased investments in new nuclear power as a strategy to decarbonize economies, especially in the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). The evidence base for these initiatives is poor. Investments in new nuclear power plants are bad for the climate due to high costs and long construction times. Given the urgency of climate change mitigation, which requires reducing emissions from the EU electricity grid to almost zero in the 2030s (Pietzcker et al.1), preference should be given to the cheapest technology that can be deployed fastest. On both costs and speed, renewable energy sources beat nuclear. Every euro invested in new nuclear plants thus delays decarbonization compared to investments in renewable power. In a decarbonizing world, delays increase CO2 emissions. Our thoughts focus on new nuclear power plants (not phasing out existing plants) in the US and Europe. In Europe, new nuclear power plants are planned or seriously discussed in France, Czechia, Hu
19 juillet 2023
James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’
17 juillet 2023
According to the latest update to the NBB’s Climate Dashboard, it appears unlikely that the world will be able to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
16 juillet 2023
Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions
12 juillet 2023
Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians to Take Real Action? The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around the world.…
11 juillet 2023
Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet
De Mozambikaanse aluminiumindustrie, de grootste industrie van het land, beweert dat haar aluminium klimaatvriendelijk is dankzij schone energie. Zo zou Mozambique onder de dreigende Europese CO2-grensbelasting uit kunnen komen. Maar onderzoekers betwijfelen de beweringen.
09 juillet 2023
In a speech about climate change from April 4th of this year, UN General Secretary António Guterres lambasted “the empty pledges that put us on track to an unlivable world” and warned that “we are on a fast track to climate disaster” (1). Although stark, Guterres’ statements were not novel. Guterres has made similar remarks on previous occasions, as have other public figures, including Sir David Attenborough, who warned in 2018 that inaction on climate change could lead to “the collapse of our civilizations” (2). In their article, “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021”—which now has more than 14,700 signatories from 158 countries—William J. Ripple and colleagues state that climate change could “cause significant disruptions to ecosystems, society, and economies, potentially making large areas of Earth uninhabitable”
08 juillet 2023
Europe at the forefront of the climate challenge The European Union is a global leader in the transition to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy. Playing a crucial role in international political efforts to tackle the climate challenge, Europe is one of the main players moving with urgency toward the Paris Agreement objectives. Now, with a European Green Deal and a commitment to reduce CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030, Europe has a clear, tangible roadmap to deliver such ambition. A wave of mass mobilisation, from climate marches to school strikes, is pressuring politicians to go further and faster. As a free-market democracy and the world’s largest single market, Europe is a key laboratory for innovative business and progressive social reform. It promises to bring groundbreaking change to globalised industries, from shipping to finance to aviation. Europe also has the power to demonstrate to the world that tackling climate change can go hand in hand with economic growth, social justice and a better qualit
07 juillet 2023
This week, the world broke the daily temperature record. This is yet another demonstration that climate change is out of control and one reason more for increased #ClimateAction ambition and justice. Emissions continue to grow while leaders persist in delaying the key measures needed to change this. This is the moment when we all need to assume our responsibilities. #climatechange
05 juillet 2023
A team of Penn State researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it. They published their findings in the journal Climatic Change.
03 juillet 2023
This Research Plan was prepared in response to a requirement in the joint explanatory statement accompanying Division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide a research plan for “solar and other rapid climate interventions.”
30 juin 2023
The populist right has made hay with social tensions climate change is likely to exacerbate.
Rishi Sunak has confirmed that a fossil fuel-funded think tank helped to draft his government’s laws targeting climate protests.
29 juin 2023
Top oil and gas companies have made little progress in turning away from hydrocarbons and towards the goals of the 2015 Paris climate deal, multinational nonprofit platform CDP said on Thursday.
27 juin 2023
Hopes of the UK government meeting its domestic and international climate targets have “worsened” over the past year, according to the CCC.
24 juin 2023
Summary for Policymakers. A Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Sweden formally renounces EU net zero roadmap championed by the likes of Germany.
23 juin 2023
Countries in debt distress thrown financial lifeline but critics say measures fall short of what is needed
22 juin 2023
Amazon rainforest and other ecosystems could collapse ‘very soon’, researchers warn
Research allays fears that rapid scaling back of production would hit people’s savings and pensions hard
20 juin 2023
It’s not that our models can’t simulate small-scale weather – they’re basically the same models we use for weather forecasting – it’s just very computationally expensive to have them zoom in and run in “weather mode” to get a highly detailed simulation.
19 juin 2023
Taxing world’s wealthiest people could help poorer countries shift economies to low-carbon and recover from climate damage
15 juin 2023
World Bank says subsidies costing as much as $23m a minute must be repurposed to fight climate crisis...
As climate policy is weakened, extreme weather intensifies and more refugees are driven from their homes – and the cycle of hatred continues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
13 juin 2023
Pour les témoins de crimes climatiques, devenir lanceurs d’alerte n’est pas sans risque. Une nouvelle ONG, Climate Whistleblowers, veut les aider à sortir du silence.
11 juin 2023
Climate change refers to long-term variation in Earth's climate effected by heating imbalances from natural (e.g., solar, volcanic, and internal dynamics) and human sources (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions and land use). Following the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and particularly since the 1960s, global climate has warmed primarily as a consequence of rising greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere related to industrial activity. This page provides a selection of template maps and timeseries depicting changes in temperature, precipitation, and other aspects of climate over the past century, and how they are projected to change in the future.
Er is nog steeds geen duidelijkheid over wie nu de VN-klimaattop in 2024 kan organiseren. Het is de beurt aan een Oost-Europees land, maar de conflicten tussen Rusland en Oekraïne en Armenië en Azerbeidzjan maken eensgezindheid onmogelijk.
09 juin 2023
Een internationaal team van wetenschappers werkt aan een systeem dat de achtjaarlijkse rapporten van het VN-klimaatpanel aanvult met een actuele stand van zaken per jaar. Klimaatexpert Piers Forster van de Universiteit van Leeds legt uit waarom dat zo belangrijk is, en wat de laatste bevindingen zijn.
08 juin 2023
Almost every country in the world has signed up to the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping warming well-below 2C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5C.
Without more legally binding and well-planned net-zero policies, the world is highly likely to miss key climate targets.
Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement that will conclude at COP28 in December 2023. Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles. We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radia
07 juin 2023
Unearthly skies and unhealthy air resulting from Canadian wildfires may persist for days.
06 juin 2023
State Farm will almost entirely stop issuing new policies in California – with climate-exacerbated wildfires and bad public policy a large reason why
Ice-free summers inevitable even with sharp emissions cuts and likely to result in more extreme heatwaves and floods
L’ONG Climate Whistleblowers («lanceurs d’alerte sur le climat» en français) a été lancée ce lundi à l’occasion de la journée internationale de l’environnement.
05 juin 2023
I'm an independent healthcare analyst with more than 24 years of experience analyzing healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Specifically, I analyze the value (costs and benefits) of biologics and pharmaceuticals, patient access to prescription drugs, the regulatory framework for drug development and reimbursement, and ethics with respect to the distribution of healthcare resources. I have approximately 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to hundreds of articles in newspapers and periodicals. I have also presented my work at numerous trade, industry, and academic conferences. From 1999 to 2017 I was a research associate professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. Prior to my Tufts appointment, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and I completed my PhD in economics at the University of Amsterdam. Before pursuing my PhD I was a management consultant at Accenture in The Hague, Netherlands. Currently, and for the past 6 years, I work on a freelance ba
02 juin 2023
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fastfeedback equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ) per W/m2 . Consistent analysis of temperature over the full Cenozoic era – including “slow” feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases – supports this ECS and implies that CO2 was about 300 ppm in the Pliocene and 400 ppm at transition to a nearly ice-free planet, thus exposing unrealistic lethargy of ice sheet models. Equilibrium global warming including slow feedbacks for today’s human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1 W/m2) is 10°C, reduced to 8°C by today’s aerosols. Decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade. Under the current geopolitical approach to GHG emissions, global warming will likely pierce the 1.5°C ceiling in the 2020s and 2°C before 2050. Impacts on people and nature will accelerate as global warming pumps up hydr
31 mai 2023
Terrestrial ecosystems have taken up about 32% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the past six decades1. Large uncertainties in terrestrial carbon–climate feedbacks, however, make it difficult to predict how the land carbon sink will respond to future climate change2. Interannual variations in the atmospheric CO2 growth rate (CGR) are dominated by land–atmosphere carbon fluxes in the tropics, providing an opportunity to explore land carbon–climate interactions3–6. It is thought that variations in CGR are largely controlled by temperature7–10 but there is also evidence for a tight coupling between water availability and CGR11. Here, we use a record of global atmospheric CO2, terrestrial water storage and precipitation data to investigate changes in the interannual relationship between tropical land climate conditions and CGR under a changing climate. We find that the interannual relationship between tropical water availability and CGR became increasingly negative during 1989–2018 compared to 1960–1989
30 mai 2023
Vanuatu is asking two questions to the ICJ: what are the legal obligations of states in regard to climate justice, and what are the legal consequences for states that do not meet these obligations.
26 mai 2023
A United Nations-convened climate alliance for insurers suffered at least three more departures on Thursday including the group's chair, as insurance companies take fright in the face of opposition from U.S. Republican politicians.
25 mai 2023
Flash drought, characterized by unusually rapid drying, can have substantial impact on many socioeconomic sectors, particularly agriculture. However, potential changes to flash drought risk in a warming climate remain unknown. In this study, projected changes in flash drought frequency and cropland risk from flash drought are quantified using global climate model simulations. We find that flash drought occurrence is expected to increase globally among all scenarios, with the sharpest increases seen in scenarios with higher radiative forcing and greater fossil fuel usage. Flash drought risk over cropland is expected to increase globally, with the largest increases projected across North America (change in annual risk from 32% in 2015 to 49% in 2100) and Europe (32% to 53%) in the most extreme emissions scenario. Following low-end and medium scenarios compared to high-end scenarios indicates a notable reduction in annual flash drought risk over cropland. Flash droughts are projected to become more frequent unde
24 mai 2023
WMO's annual State of the Climate in Europe report explores changes in climate indicators, extreme events and climate policy.
22 mai 2023
Current climate policies will leave more than a fifth of humanity exposed to dangerously hot temperatures by 2100, new research suggests. The paper, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, is entitled "Quantifying the Human Cost of Global Warming."
World is on track for 2.7C and ‘phenomenal’ human suffering, scientists warn. Up to 1 billion people could choose to migrate to cooler places, the scientists said, although those areas remaining within the climate niche would still experience more frequent heatwaves and droughts. However, urgent action to lower carbon emissions and keep global temperature rise to 1.5C would cut the number of people pushed outside the climate niche by 80%, to 400 million.
15 mai 2023
We owe all children a planet Earth as wonderful as the one we have enjoyed!
14 mai 2023
Record sea surface temperatures suggest the Earth is headed for ‘uncharted territory’ in terms of sea level rise, coastal flooding and extreme weather
Abusive, often violent tweets denying the climate emergency have become a barrage since Elon Musk acquired the platform, say UK experts
07 mai 2023
De Duitse bondskanselier Olaf Scholz kondigt een bijdrage van 2 miljard euro aan het VN-Klimaatfonds aan. Daarmee verhoogt de druk op andere donoren om over de brug te komen.
06 mai 2023
Higher rates slow the renewable energy transition and shield oil and gas producers from competition by low-carbon producers
04 mai 2023
Mitigation of Climate Change - Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
03 mai 2023
Stop Ecocide, Greenpeace, Canopea ou encore Rise for Climate et Youth for Climate, entre autres, organisent la première marche pour la biodiversité le 21 mai à Bruxelles, annonce Greenpeace dans un communiqué mercredi. Les organisations ont décidé de mener cette action à l'occasion de la journée internationale de la biodiversité.
21 avril 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes a case for sabotage, but hope remains that we can build rather than destroy, says campaigner Natasha Walter
Andreas Malm says he has no hope in ‘dominant classes’, and urges more radical approach to climate activism.
18 avril 2023
Informer le grand public sur le changement climatique en quelques clics, voilà l’ambition portée par Climate Q&A. La crise climatique peut-elle être enrayée ? Quel est le coût de l’inaction ? Qu'est-ce que le jet stream ? Lancé au début du mois d’avril, ce chatbot gratuit et open source s’appuie sur une quinzaine de rapports scientifiques pour répondre de manière fiable et sourcée à toutes les interrogations des utilisateurs.
16 avril 2023
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.
11 avril 2023
La nouvelle IA, développée par une société française, a été conçue pour répondre à toutes les questions sur le climat en se basant sur les rapports du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat.
Wind and solar reached a record 12% of global electricity in 2022, and power sector emissions may have peaked.
10 avril 2023
Une société française a créé un nouvel outil à base d’IA pour les questions environnementales. ChatGPT est de la partie mais les sources de données proviennent notamment du GIEC.
07 avril 2023
Several nations plan to build new coal power plants, with China alone approving nearly 100 gigawatts. Each gigawatt is the equivalent of installing more than 3 million solar panels.
06 avril 2023
Humanity is not on track to avoid the deadliest effects of climate change, according to University at Buffalo researcher Holly Jean Buck. "Our plans are not adequate to meet the goal of limiting the Earth's temperature increase to no more than 1.5℃ by 2050," said Buck, Ph.D., assistant professor of environment and sustainability....
L'expédition "Deep Climate" est de retour de Laponie. Les 20 volontaires, encadrés par l'explorateur Christian Clot, ont passé plusieurs semaines dans le grand Nord, dans un but scientifique : étudier leurs réactions et celles de leurs corps face aux températures extrêmes.
03 avril 2023
GiecPT. Ekimetrics, un cabinet spécialisé en intelligence artificielle, vient de développer Climate Q&A, le ChatGPT du climat. Encore en phase de test, l’outil permet d’interroger facilement les rapports scientifiques les plus importants, dont ceux du Giec.
Ask climate-related questions to the IPCC reports
01 avril 2023
Campaigners say Rosebank, with a potential yield of 500m barrels, would seriously undermine legal commitment to net zero
29 mars 2023
This paper catalogues current efforts to address climate change within multilateral economic and financial institutions and related organizations. It also proposes a minimum set of policy measures that need to be prioritized by such institutions to support climate change mitigation and adaptation. The proposals include expanding public climate finance via multilateral development banks, doing more to mobilize private investment, mainstreaming climate considerations across institutional operations, making climate disclosures mandatory, and addressing sovereign debt distress to unlock private climate finance.
27 mars 2023
La Niña is present.* Equatorial sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are below average across most of the Pacific Ocean. The tropical Pacific atmosphere is consistent with La Niña. La Niña is expected to continue into the winter, with equal chances of La Niña and ENSO-neutral during January-March 2023. In February-April 2023, there is a 71% chance of ENSO-neutral.*
Protecting and enhancing populations of key wildlife species across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage and play a critical role mitigating climate change, according to new YSE-led research.
24 mars 2023
The damage functions in the models, which relate GDP to temperature and sea-level rise, account for impacts on agriculture, forestry, fisheries, floods, road infrastructure, energy supply and demand, and labor productivity. Using this novel approach, the researchers estimate that the avoided damages are 1.5-3.9 times higher than the costs of climate mitigation. In other words, one euro invested in climate solutions saves the world about 1.5 to 4 euros in effects from climate change.
The new report evokes a mild sense of urgency, calling on governments to mobilise finance to accelerate the uptake of green technology. But its conclusions are far removed from a direct interpretation of the IPCC’s own carbon budgets (the total amount of CO₂ scientists estimate can be put into the atmosphere for a given temperature rise).
I cannot support laws that defend those who destroy the planet, and criminalise those who try to protect it, says Jolyon Maugham KC
Six KCs among more than 120 mostly English lawyers to sign pledge not to act for fossil fuel interests
23 mars 2023
The scientific community has focused the agenda of studies of climate change on lower-end warming and simple risk analyses, because more realistic complex asses
Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming.
Humanity received a “final warning” Monday from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The bottom line of the Synthesis Report of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report is to “act now, or it’s too late,” the Guardian wrote. The scale of the emergency screams out from almost every page — climate change is already displacing and killing millions of people globally — but the report also provides what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called a roadmap for defusing the “climate time bomb.”
20 mars 2023
Since 1992, the IPCC has highlighted rising greenhouse gases, marking their ‘widespread and unprecedented’ impacts by 2014
The IPCC is currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle, during which the IPCC will produce the Assessment reports of its three Working Groups, three Special Reports, a refinement to the methodology report and the Synthesis Report. The Synthesis Report will be the last of the AR6 products, due for release in March 2023.
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 -- There are multiple, feasible and effective options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to human-caused climate change, and they are available now, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today. ...
IPCC Press Conference - Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report
AR6 Synthesis Report
IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world
19 mars 2023
Un nouvel article de Yale Climate Connection se penche sur les événements extrêmes présents et futurs (lien). Ils notent l'augmentation d'événements extrêmes et les raisons de leur aggravation rapide récente. Ils relèvent que la combinaison de plus d'énergie thermique et d'une circulation atmosphérique perturbée a rendu les événements météorologiques extrêmes plus fréquents et plus intenses. Les [...]
09 mars 2023
Net-zero targets imply that continuing residual emissions will be balanced by carbon dioxide removal. However, residual emissions are typically not well defined, conceptually or quantitatively. We analysed governments’ long-term strategies submitted to the UNFCCC to explore projections of residual emissions, including amounts and sectors. We found substantial levels of residual emissions at net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, on average 18% of current emissions for Annex I countries. The majority of strategies were imprecise about which sectors residual emissions would originate from, and few offered specific projections of how residual emissions could be balanced by carbon removal. Our findings indicate the need for a consistent definition of residual emissions, as well as processes that standardize and compare expectations about residual emissions across countries. This is necessary for two reasons: to avoid projections of excessive residuals and correspondent unsustainable or unfeasible carbon-removal level
07 mars 2023
Do Europeans really want #teslacars but no mines? In this 22-minute documentary Peter Tom Jones (Director KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals - SIM2 KU Leuven) searches for answers to Europe’s seemingly problematic relationship with primary #mining of #energytransition #metals.
06 mars 2023
Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating
03 mars 2023
The lack of interest in climate adaptation and mitigation among national-security policymakers reflects a profound misunderstanding of the risks that climate change poses to global stability. To avert catastrophe, the international community must help the world’s most vulnerable countries strengthen their resilience.
24 février 2023
Former UN secretary general calls for rich countries to honour promises made to the developing world after years of failure
23 février 2023
Last year, 3 million were displaced in the US. Millions more will follow – and neither they, the government or the housing market are ready
22 février 2023
It’s not ‘the whole truth and nothing but the truth’ if campaigners cannot explain their motivations to a jury, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
16 février 2023
The rapid decline of Earth’s most numerous animals is a major threat to the biosphere
The world is at risk of descending into a climate “doom loop”, a thinktank report has warned. It said simply coping with the escalating impacts of the climate crisis could draw resources and focus away from the efforts to slash carbon emissions, making the situation even worse.
13 février 2023
Canadian author and professor of climate justice cautiously hails loss and damage agreements at Cop27. " I think the most important thing is to just find other people. Trying to think through this by yourself is a recipe for feeling like a failure and getting dispirited very, very quickly. The benefit of being part of a broader movement is knowing that some people are doing some things, and other people are doing other things, and nobody has to do everything."
11 février 2023
Black Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergency. The college is this year offering a radical new degree course designed to prepare students for a career in times of climate breakdown, and build a generation with the innovative skills and ideas required to tackle the crisis.
09 février 2023
Claimants ClientEarth say the oil company’s plan puts the company at financial risk as the world transitions to clean energy, The directors of oil major Shell are being personally sued over their climate strategy, which the claimants say is inadequate to meet climate targets and puts the company at risk as the world switches to clean energy.
08 février 2023
The fallout when the industry fails to act is still smaller than the rewards for pumping out more pollution
Examination of trees alive at the time shows three years of severe drought that may have caused crop failures and famine
07 février 2023
Machine learning is producing impressive results, and, for better or worse, researchers are now using it to address the climate crisis, writes Frederick Hewett.
Wind, water and solar energy is cheap, effective and green. We don’t need experimental or risky energy sources to save our planet
The new study shows that every increment of sea level rise will cover more than twice as much land as older models predicted, and marks another advance in providing more accurate models of rising seas
03 février 2023
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund threatens to vote against boards on firms it holds investments with over lax climate and social targets
Beware of these three false solutions to climate change: carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), hydrogen and offsets.
02 février 2023
Letters: I risked prison to stand up against an system that will lead to ecological and societal collapse – we must look for alternative economic models, writes Zoe Cohen
31 janvier 2023
The climate crisis has begun to disrupt human societies by severely affecting the very foundations of human livelihood and social organisation. Climate impacts are not equally distributed across the world: on average, low- and middle-income countries suffer greater impacts than their richer counterparts. At the same time, the climate crisis is also marked by significant inequalities within countries. Recent research reveals a high concentration of global greenhouse gas emissions among a relatively small fraction of the population, living in emerging and rich countries. In addition, vulnerability to numerous climate impacts is strongly linked to income and wealth, not just between countries but also within them.
Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.
30 janvier 2023
The NASA climate spiral 1880-2022. This version is in Celsius; see below for an alternate version in Fahrenheit. Both a 30 fps, 60 second duration video and 60 fps, 30 second duration video are available. The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1880-2022. Temperature anomalies are deviations from a long term global avergage. In this case the period 1951-1980 is used to define the baseline for the anomaly. These temperatures are based on the GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP v4), an estimate of global surface temperature change. The data file used to create this visualization is publically accessible here.The term 'climate spiral' describes an animated radial plot of global temperatures. Climate scientist Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading popularized this style of visualization in 2016.The Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) is a NASA laboratory managed by the Earth Sciences Division of the agency’s Godd
Researchers found that exceeding the 2C increase has a 50% chance of happening by mid-century
27 janvier 2023
An alternate timeline that ends with a Nobel prize for Exxon’s CEO.
26 janvier 2023
We are writing to urge you to push the United Arab Emirates to withdraw the appointment of Sultan Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, as President-designate of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28). The decision to name the chief executive of one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies as president of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference risks jeopardizing climate progress from successive U.N. Climate Conferences. To help ensure that COP 28 is a serious and productive climate summit, we believe the United States should urge the United Arab Emirates to name a different lead for COP 28 or, at a minimum, seek assurances that it will promote an ambitious COP 28 aligned with the 1.5 degrees Celsius limit and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) findings and take concrete steps to demonstrate domestic and regional leadership toward this end.
20 janvier 2023
Three “super-tipping points” for climate action could trigger a cascade of decarbonisation across the global economy, according to a report. Relatively small policy interventions on electric cars, plant-based alternatives to meat and green fertilisers would lead to unstoppable growth in those sectors, the experts said. But the boost this would give to battery and hydrogen production would mean crucial knock-on benefits for other sectors including energy storage and aviation.
Several US states say news that Exxon scientists predicted global heating accurately strengthens their lawsuits against company
19 janvier 2023
A comprehensive new study led by Professor Gwen Robbins Schug at UNC Greensboro traces the impact of rapid climate change events on humans over the past 5,000 years and offers lessons for today's policymakers. The meta-analysis of approximately a decade's worth of bioarchaeology data was published today as a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences perspective article by a team of 25 authors representing 21 universities.
18 janvier 2023
Carbon offsets can help achieve emissions goals, some experts argue, while others say they are actively dangerous
Carbon credits and offsets do not have a great record but the funds they raise are a vital part in fight against deforestation
Mexico announced this Tuesday a set of measures to ban solar geoengineering experiments in the country, after a US startup began releasing sulfur particles into the atmosphere in the northern state of Baja California.
12 janvier 2023
The oil giant Exxon privately “predicted global warming correctly and skilfully” only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.
07 janvier 2023
Il y avait les Argonautes. Et désormais, il y aura les Climatonautes. Une vingtaine de volontaires qui ont choisi de suivre l’aventurier chercheur Christian Clot pour trois folles expéditions en milieux extrêmes, afin de permettre aux scientifiques d’étudier comme jamais la façon dont les humains s’adaptent aux changements climatiques. Stéphane Besnard, le responsable médical et le codirecteur scientifique des études des expéditions, nous dévoile aujourd’hui les dessous de ce projet nommé Deep Climate.
05 janvier 2023
World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles.
In the U.K., Extinction Rebellion is shifting to a more moderate strategy in 2023. It could mark a tone shift for the climate movement.
04 janvier 2023
An international team of scientists painstakingly gathered data from more than 50 years of seagoing scientific drilling missions to conduct a first-of-its-kind study of organic carbon that falls to the bottom of the ocean and gets drawn deep inside the planet.
Over the past 12 months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have made groundbreaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and denounced the human rights violations of the climate crisis. But 2023 could be even more important, with hearings and judgments across the world poised to throw light on the worst perpetrators, give victims a voice and force recalcitrant governments and companies into
03 janvier 2023
People in developing countries are feeling increasingly angry and “victimised” by the climate crisis, the US climate envoy John Kerry has warned, and rich countries must respond urgently. “I’ve been chronicling the increased frustration and anger of island states and vulnerable countries and small African nations and others around the world that feel victimised by the fact that they are a minuscule component of emissions,” he said. “And yet [they are] paying a very high price. Seventeen of the 20 most affected countries in the world, by the climate crisis, are in Africa, and yet 48 sub-Saharan countries total 0.55% of all emissions.”
30 décembre 2022
Overall, however, the climate crisis is bleaker than it has ever been. In October, a slew of reports laid bare how close the planet had neared to irreversible climate breakdown, with one UN study stating there was “no credible pathway in place to 1.5C”, the internationally agreed limit for global heating, and that progress on cutting carbon emissions was “woefully inadequate”.
29 décembre 2022
The past year saw major developments in accountability cases against oil companies and national governments around the world, as well as setbacks for several high-profile fossil fuel projects.
27 décembre 2022
Most expensive storm cost $100bn while deadliest floods killed 1,700 and displaced 7 million, report finds
The world’s reliance on hi-tech capitalist solutions to the climate and ecological crises is perpetuating racism, the outgoing UN racism rapporteur has warned. Green solutions including electric cars, renewable energy and the rewilding of vast tracts of land are being implemented at the expense of racially and ethnically marginalised groups and Indigenous peoples, Tendayi Achiume told the Guardian in an interview.
26 décembre 2022
Climate Change Laws of the World is a global database of climate change laws, policies, climate targets and litigation cases
23 décembre 2022
De internationale scheepvaart bleef lang buiten schot bij klimaatakkoorden. Maar nu groeit ook voor die sector de internationale steun, ook van verschillende opkomende economieën, voor strengere klimaatdoelen. Maar er blijven zorgen over de kosten.
22 décembre 2022
The UN-backed ‘Carbon Removal Pioneers’ stoke the development dreams of African countries but crash against the reality of climate science.
18 décembre 2022
More than half of young people think "humanity is doomed" due to climate change. We need to reframe the narrative from doom and sacrifice, to one of opportunity.
16 décembre 2022
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast- feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2×CO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C. Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2×CO2 forcing. Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today’s GHG forcing alone – after slow feedbacks operate – is about 10°C. Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that aerosol cooling offset GHG warming for several millennia as civilization developed. A hinge-point in global warming occurred in 1970 as increased GHG warming outpaced aerosol cooling, leading to global warming of 0.18°C per decade. Aerosol cooling is larger than estimated in the current IPCC report, but it has declined since 2010 because of aerosol reductions in China and shipping. Without unprecedented global actions to
15 décembre 2022
The coasts of Alaska are piled up with dead birds dying of starvation. Experts say that climate change is resulting in shifts in the food chain.
13 décembre 2022
Climate disorder won’t be remedied through an orderly march of green energy. The world must also rein in consumption.
12 décembre 2022
Mitigation of Climate Change - Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
10 décembre 2022
More than two decades on from the protocol, country shows enthusiasm for nuclear restarts over renewables
07 décembre 2022
Qui sont les plus gros émetteurs de CO2 dans le monde ? Et y en a-t-il près de chez vous ? Une carte, réalisée par Climate Trace, vous permet de visualiser très simplement ces informations.
04 décembre 2022
In 1998, as nations around the world agreed to cut carbon emissions through the Kyoto Protocol, America’s fossil fuel companies plotted their response, including an aggressive strategy to inject doubt into the public debate.
02 décembre 2022
A climate protester who blocked a lane of traffic on Sydney Harbour Bridge has been sentenced to 15 months in prison with a non-parole period of eight months, with human rights advocates labelling the punishment “disproportionate”.
28 novembre 2022
La coalition Climate Trace a dévoilé début novembre un nouvel outil permettant d'observer les emplacements exacts des sites les plus polluants. Une carte détaillée qui doit aider les pays et les entreprises à rechercher des moyens efficaces pour atteindre la décarbonisation. Cet outil indépendant, répertoriant les émissions de gaz à effet de serre à travers le monde, a été présenté par Al Gore, à l'occasion du sommet des Nations unies sur le climat (COP27) en Égypte.
Shane White from www.worldenergydata.org has put together three very useful charts breaking down coal, oil and gas extraction by nation.
27 novembre 2022
Alors que les émissions carbone ne cessent d’augmenter, une initiative imaginée par la coalition Climate Trace vient apporter un nouvel éclairage sur les sites et les secteurs les plus polluants. Répertoriant des dizaines de milliers de données sur une seule et unique carte, ce nouvel outil accessible gratuitement a été salué lors de la COP27 en Égypte.
"KEEP 1.5 ALIVE" has been the mantra of recent global climate conferences. But more and more mainstream organisations now say our politicians have already failed, and that average global temperature increases higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels are now inevitable. So, who are we to believe?
26 novembre 2022
The Center for Climate and Security (CCS), a non-partisan institute of the Council on Strategic Risks, has a team and distinguished Advisory Board of security and military experts. CCS envisions a climate-resilient world which recognizes that climate change threats to security are already significant, unprecedented and potentially existential, and acts to address those threats in a manner that is commensurate to their scale, consequence and probability.
23 novembre 2022
Na de klimaattop in Egypte staat er volgende maand al opnieuw een belangrijke milieutop op de agenda. In het Canadese Montreal moet de internationale gemeenschap het eens worden over een historisch akkoord over natuur en biodiversiteit, dat zich kan meten met het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs.
The Sea Port Oil Terminal, 30 miles off the Texas coast, is the first of four proposed offshore terminals designed to dramatically expand the U.S. oil export capacity.
18 novembre 2022
We know that the easiest way for a politician to secure power is to appease those who already possess it, those whose power transcends elections: the oil barons, the media barons, the corporations and financial markets. We know that this power appoints the worst possible people at the worst possible time. We know how, as elderly billionaires seek to grab ever more of the life that slips from them, they create a death cult....
17 novembre 2022
The climate talks are going into overtime with little progress toward the emissions cuts required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Op de VN-klimaattop in Egypte toont de Europese Unie zich dan toch bereid om te praten over een nieuw mechanisme voor klimaathulp aan ontwikkelingslanden. Maar dan moeten grote economieën als China mee betalen.
COP27-gastland Egypte gaat meer van de vervuilende zware stookolie mazout gebruiken in twintig elektriciteitscentrales om gas vrij te maken voor uitvoer naar Europa.
16 novembre 2022
La guerre en Ukraine place l’Europe « à un tournant » de sa politique énergétique et climatique selon Climate Action Tracker : soit remplacer sa dépendance à la Russie par de nouvelles dépendances, soit « accélerer le développement des énergies renouvelables et de l’efficacité énergétique ». D’urgence et massivement.
14 novembre 2022
The map shows the Climate Shift Index (CSI) for the daily average temperature. High CSI values mean climate change made the temperatures more likely.
Le Climate Shift Index, CSI, permet de voir si, à une datte donnée, une température est dans la norme ou influencée par le changement climatique.
12 novembre 2022
All students at the University of Barcelona will have to take a mandatory course on the climate crisis after the establishment agreed to meet the demands of activists conducting a sit-in occupation. The announcement came after a seven-day occupation by a group from the anti-fossil fuel organisation End Fossil Barcelona.
In his Cop27 speech this week, our will-he-go, won’t-he-go prime minister said that stopping the planet dangerously overheating was still within our grasp, leaving many wondering just what planet he was on. According to Rishi Sunak, last year’s Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow was all about keeping alive the possibility of preventing the global average temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution from climbing above 1.5C. That is “alive”, as in connected to a drip, in a coma and suffering cardiac arrest every few hours.
10 novembre 2022
Nu een van de belangrijkste verwezenlijkingen van de VN-klimaattop in Glasgow van vorig jaar - een breed gedragen verbintenis om ontbossing een halt toe te roepen - vertaald moet worden in concrete actie, haken de meeste ondertekenaars af. Rusland, Indonesië en Congo zijn maar enkele van de bosrijke landen die zich teruggetrokken hebben.
08 novembre 2022
Read Prime Minister Alexander De Croo's full speech at the climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh here. In his speech, the Prime Minister made the case for inclusivity and cooperation to tackle the climate crisis. Young, old, private, public sector, north, south, we must all go all-in to tackle today's challenges
06 novembre 2022
MIT researchers have confirmed that Earth harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to keep global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.“On the one hand, it’s good because we know that today’s global warming will eventually be canceled out through this stabilizing feedback,” says Constantin Arnscheidt, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). “But on the other hand, it will take hundreds of thousands of years to happen, so not fast enough to solve our present-day issues.”
Rich countries must urgently develop a plan to assist countries suffering the ravages of extreme weather, as failure to take early action on the climate crisis has left them increasingly vulnerable, developing nations have said. The V20 – made up of the 20 vulnerable countries facing the worst impacts of the climate crisis, and least able to cope with them – set out its proposals on Monday for how rich countries should pay for the “loss and damage” caused by the climate crisis.
This is an essay that responds critically to the widely read essay in the New York Times that appears to be calming the nerves of climate professionals here at COP27 and beyond....
05 novembre 2022
Hundreds of climate activists breached a runway Saturday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport to try to stop private jets from taking off, in the latest demonstration by protesters aimed at drawing attention to the climate crisis. Greenpeace Netherlands said “more than 500” Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion activists were at the airport, one of Europe’s largest, on Saturday afternoon, in a press release. A spokesperson for the Schiphol security forces could not confirm that figure.
04 novembre 2022
António Guterres is heading to Cop27 for what is likely to be another blistering attack on complacency and foot-dragging
António Guterres says gap between developed world and poorer countries is biggest issue facing Cop27 talks
Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the climate crisis, but with the right support at Cop27 it can build a stronger, greener future
From the seemingly inexorable increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the rapid growth in green energy
Vast carbon store may be close to point where it could flip from absorbing CO2 to releasing it, research shows. The Congo peatlands are a huge carbon “timebomb” that could be triggered by the climate crisis, research has shown.
Research published this summer found that falsehoods about global warming continue to flourish on social media sites and are often framed through the lens of Western culture wars, placing climate change alongside other hot button topics like gay and transgender rights and gun control. A separate analysis released last month found “a sprawling online network” of Spanish speakers on Twitter, TikTok and other major social platforms who “consistently amplify” climate misinformation and other right-wing conspiracy theories.
03 novembre 2022
A dramatic increase in funding for climate adaptation is needed to save millions of lives from “climate carnage”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said. Climate adaptation includes preparing defences against rising floods, shelters against intensifying cyclones and emergency plans to protect people during worsening heatwaves and droughts. Guterres said only a small fraction of the required finance was given by rich nations to protect vulnerable people.
02 novembre 2022
17 gas-exporterende landen zullen gas op de klimaattop in november promoten als de ‘ideale oplossing’ voor het klimaat en de energiezekerheid. Opvallend: bij die landen is ook Egypte, het gastland voor de klimaattop.
Van de Pakistaanse minister van Klimaat Sherry Rehman tot de Egyptische cijferaar Mahmoud Mohieldin, dit zijn de belangrijkste spelers op de VN-klimaatconferentie COP27 die volgende week begint.
01 novembre 2022
National climate pledges would collectively require 1.2 billion hectares (about 3 billion acres) of land, researchers have found in a new study, The Land Gap Report. More than half of this land is already currently used for something else. This demand for land will put pressure on ecosystems, Indigenous lands, small farmers and food security. Protecting existing forests and securing Indigenous and community land rights are more effective than carbon capture plans requiring land-use change, including reforestation.
31 octobre 2022
België moet zich terugtrekken uit het Energiehandvestverdrag (EHV). Dat vragen de Grootouders voor het klimaat samen met de Grands-Parents pour le Climat en Youth for Climate Belgium in een open brief aan de premier, de vice-premiers en de ministers van energie en klimaat.
27 octobre 2022
Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says
Joint committee on national security strategy criticises ‘severe dereliction of duty’ by ministers as threat grows
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 is to catastrophe.
26 octobre 2022
UN Climate Change News, 26 October 2022 – A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but underlines that these efforts remain insufficient to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
From deadly floods in Nigeria to devastating drought in Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather events since the start of 2022. But while the US hurricane season and 40C heat in the UK have captured headlines, many of Africa’s most extreme and life-changing weather events went largely unreported in global-north media.
Semafor launched last week with the goal of “reinventing the news story.” The news story needs reinventing, they say, because people can no longer tell the difference between unbiased fact and opinion. According to the Observer, Semafor has already raised more than $25 million, the majority of which is coming from eight corporate sponsors who want to help the news outlet address distrust in media. One of those sponsors appears to be Chevron, the second biggest climate-polluting company in the world.
25 octobre 2022
An international study on the future of insects under climate change scenarios has found the loss of insects will drastically reduce the ability of humankind to build a sustainable future. "A growing body of evidence shows many populations of insects are declining rapidly in many places. These declines are of profound concern, with terms like an emerging 'insect apocalypse' being increasingly used by the media and even some scientists to describe this phenomenon," Laurance said.
24 octobre 2022
The UK's advertising regulator has banned two HSBC advertisements for being "misleading" about the company's work to tackle climate change.
Après 4 ans d'attente Greta Thunberg accorde une interview exceptionnelle à la Terre au carré, à l'occasion de la sortie de son livre "The Climate Book". La jeune militante écologiste suédoise, âgée de 19 ans, parle aussi de son engagement, de sa vie aujourd'hui et de ses ambitions pour l'avenir.
23 octobre 2022
De klimaatmars op zondag 23 oktober belooft groot te worden. Dit jaar staat de mars in teken van het recht op voedsel en de energiecrisis, want de klimaatbeweging eist een transitie die ecologisch én klimaatrechtvaardig is. En wel nu. Wij spraken met Simon Sterck (17), lid van de Vlaamse Jeugdraad als VN-jongerenvertegenwoordiger Duurzame Ontwikkeling en actief bij Youth for Climate.
21 octobre 2022
Meer dan 40.000 jongeren staan vrijdag 21 oktober op voor klimaatrechtvaardigheid. Op school of in de jeugdbeweging, ze richten zich tot de hele bevolking om aanstaande zondag mee te lopen in de grootste klimaatmars ooit. De klimaatcrisis baart de jeugd zorgen, want het gaat over hun toekomst. DeWereldMorgen sprak met Maria en Gitte, voorzitters van de leerlingenraad van het Sint-Jozefcollege in Aarschot. Zij komen vandaag met 850 (!) leerlingen op straat in Aarschot.
Denmark ‘gets ball rolling’ at UN ahead of protests as poor nations call for greater collective commitment. Youth groups in Africa are preparing to embark on a series of climate demonstrations on Friday to highlight the problem of “loss and damage” to poor countries blighted by climate breakdown, as only one rich country has so far stepped up with funding for the problem.
20 octobre 2022
Le groupe de lutte face au changement climatique "Rise for Climate", accompagné d'une délégation issue de la forêt amazonienne et de différentes ONG, ainsi que la princesse Esmeralda, ont mené une action jeudi en fin de journée, dans le cadre du Sommet européen qui se déroule à Bruxelles.
19 octobre 2022
New coal power projects are becoming “effectively uninsurable” outside China because so many insurance companies have ruled out support for them, a report has found. Recent commitments to stop underwriting coal by prominent US insurers AIG and Travelers have brought the number of coal insurance exit policies to 41, according to the latest industry scorecard by the climate campaign Insure Our Future.
Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, with fewer than half of those questioned in a new survey believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries over the next 20 years.
China heeft geen uitnodigingen verstuurd naar regeringsleiders voor een belangrijke wereldtop rond biodiversiteit. Daar zou een wereldwijd akkoord bereikt moeten worden, maar de vrees neemt toe dat het milieu verdrukt wordt door beladen geopolitieke relaties.
18 octobre 2022
Some two dozen climate liability suits have been making their way through the courts since 2015, bolstered by media investigations and attribution studies that are able to accurately pinpoint the precise contribution climate change has made to the damages inflicted by extreme weather events. A 2021 study in the journal Nature, for example, found that just over $8bn (£7bn) of the $62.7bn (£55.3bn) in damages caused by Superstorm Sandy across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is attributable to sea-level rise caused by climate change.
De organisatie die milieuvriendelijke houtproducten certificeert, FSC, gaat zijn label nu ook geven aan bedrijven die hout kappen. Die moeten dan wel alle bossen herstellen die ze tussen 1994 en 2020 hebben gekapt én de gemeenschappen vergoeden die schade hebben geleden door de ontbossing.
10 octobre 2022
‘Het gebeurt niet elke dag dat academici te horen krijgen dat ze de wet dreigen te overtreden als ze fundamentele wetenschappelijke feiten benoemen.’ Maar dat was wel wat Thomas Hale, expert Klimaatbeleid aan de universiteit van Oxford, overkwam tijdens zijn werk voor een wetenschappelijk adviesorgaan. Hij had er expliciet op gewezen dat nieuwe steenkoolontginning niet compatibel is met op wetenschap gebaseerde klimaatdoelen. ‘De regelgeving moet veranderen’, vindt hij.
Loss and damage from climate change is already costing vulnerable communities dearly. These communities have played almost no role in causing the climate crisis, yet they are now paying for it with damaged and destroyed homes and schools, lost crops and livelihoods, and the loss of loved ones.
08 octobre 2022
Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things around ‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg Sat 8 Oct 2022 09.00 BST Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound that bad. The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our restless world. No matter how fortunate we are, there is always room for the appealing possibility of improvement. Then there is the “climate” part. Again, it does not sound so bad. If you live in many of the high-emitting nations of the global north, the idea of a “changing climate” could well be interpreted as the very opposite of scary and dangerous. A changing world. A warming planet. What’s not to like?
06 octobre 2022
A recent paper suggested damaging climate tipping points could be closer than first thought.
04 octobre 2022
Orkaan Ian, die over Cuba en Florida is getrokken en aan tientallen mensen het leven kostte, kan de Amerikaanse economie 67 miljard dollar kosten. Een groot deel van die schade is niet verzekerd.
03 octobre 2022
Fossil fuel companies that want a free pass to keep pumping oil and gas are making wildly unrealistic promises about 'capturing' their emissions at sites of pollution, or removing them from the atmosphere at later date. But the science says drastic emission cuts are needed now if we are to stay within 1.5ºC warming. Thus ‘net zero’ policies are in reality 'not zero', and effectively guarantee that we’ll overshoot 1.5ºC, triggering catastrophic climate impacts which we have no reason to believe can be reversed by speculative and unproven ‘carbon removal’ technologies.
01 octobre 2022
I became a climate activist 16 years ago. Back then, not many people cared about climate change. The eye rolls were audible. Media coverage was scarce, and what little there was glibly included “both sides”. It was frustrating and tragic to see such a clear and present danger and to know that it was still mostly avoidable, yet ignored by society.
23 septembre 2022
New Jersey public school students will be the first in the country required to learn about climate change while in the classroom starting this school year. "Climate change is becoming a real reality," New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy, who spearheaded the initiative, told "ABC News Live" on Thursday. The new standards were adopted by the state's board of education in 2020, but because of the pandemic, the roll out was halted, giving educators and districts more time to prepare the lesson plans for all students in grades K-12.
Campaigners say protesters arrested for blocking roads getting ‘lost in prison system’ while on remand. Speaking from inside the jail, he said: “The only good thing about my situation is that it seems to give an extra platform for my views. I spend most afternoons writing speeches and they have been read out all over the world – Italy, Sweden, Canada.”
22 septembre 2022
Billboards hijacked across Europe to highlight role of airline emissions in climate crisis
21 septembre 2022
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for strengthened international solidarity to address pressing global issues. "My objective is to make it clear that …we need cooperation, we need dialogue, and the present terrible geopolitical divides are not allowing it to happen. We need to change course," Mr. Guterres said in a wide-ranging interview with UN News ahead of the General Assembly's annual high-level week. The UN chief is just back from a solidarity visit to flood-ravaged Pakistan, where he called repeatedly for fast – and serious – to not only end what he called "climate carnage" but to provide more support for the countries that are the most-impacted but have done very little to cause the phenomenon.
De Europese Unie kan al in 2040 netto-nuluitstoot bereiken - tien jaar eerder dan gepland, zegt een nieuw rapport van onderzoeksbureau Climate Analytics.
13 septembre 2022
Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme. Despite intensifying warnings in recent years, governments and businesses have not been changing fast enough, according to the United in Science report published on Tuesday. The consequences are already being seen in increasingly extreme weather around the world, and we are in danger of provoking “tipping points” in the climate system that will mean more rapid and in some cases irreversible shifts.
11 septembre 2022
Words matter. It’s vital terms like ‘crisis’ and ‘calamity’ don’t become rhetorical devices devoid of real content as we argue about what climate action to take.
In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming.
08 septembre 2022
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
07 septembre 2022
In the past 50 years, the oceans have absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat caused by our carbon dioxide emissions, with one ocean absorbing the vast majority.
06 septembre 2022
As those most responsible for the crisis recede into history, our energy is better spent responding to the world we have created
Presidents of Senegal, DRC and Ghana travelled to Rotterdam to talk about adapting to climate change. Only one European leader was there to meet them
01 septembre 2022
Three months before COP27, new research suggests the most ambitious climate pledges are also most credible.
Een nakend VN-rapport stelt dat lokale productie van houtskool een veel kleinere impact op de ontbossing in het Congobekken heeft dan tot nog toe gedacht. Olieprojecten zijn een veel grotere bedreiging, zegt auteur Aurelie Shapiro. Ze spreekt van een ‘gigantische koolstofbom’.
31 août 2022
In An Inconvenient Apocalypse, authors Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen style themselves as heralds of some very bad news: societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable, and those who manage to survive the mass death and crumbling of the world as we know it will have to live in drastically transformed circumstances. According to Jackson and Jensen, there’s no averting this collapse – electric cars aren’t going to save us, and neither are global climate accords. The current way of things is doomed, and it’s up to us to prepare as best we can to ensure as soft a landing as possible when the inevitable apocalypse arrives.
30 août 2022
Selon une étude (en anglais) publiée lundi 29 août dans la revue Nature Climate Change et repérée par Franceinfo via l’AFP, à cause du dérèglement climatique, la calotte glaciaire du Groenland pourrait perdre au minimum 3,3 % de son volume d’ici à l’année 2100. L’une des conséquences « inévitables » de cette fonte des glaciers pourrait être une augmentation a minima de 27,4 centimètres du niveau de la mer… soit davantage que ce que le Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (Giec) prévoyait dans son rapport de référence de 2021.
Duitsland en Canada hebben deze week een ‘waterstofalliantie’ aangekondigd. Maar die zet leidt de aandacht af van het Duitse plan om massaal niet-Russisch fossiel gas in te kopen, stellen critici.
25 août 2022
Anuna De Wever a donné de ses nouvelles sur les réseaux sociaux.
23 août 2022
Levels of the gas are growing at a record rate and natural sources like wetlands are the cause, but scientists don’t know how to curb it.
22 août 2022
Shallow deposits of frozen methane beneath oceans may be more vulnerable to thawing than previously known.
While more extreme threats are unlikely to be realised, sticking to the precautionary principle is just plain common sense. A middle of the road route would be to no one’s advantage – so, as for most situations wherein the risk is hard to quantify, there is only one sensible way forward: to hope for the best, while preparing for the worst.
The goal of our project is to compile in a systematic manner the evidence in support of transmittable diseases being aggravated by climate hazards. To ensure a systematic review, we scrutinized the first 200 references in Google Scholar that resulted from using as keywords each possible combination of ten climate hazards (i.e., warming, heatwaves, precipitation, floods, drought, fires, sea level, storms, natural cover change, ocean climate change) and “human diseases”. We selected papers that reported cases examples of diseases regardless of whether impacts were positive or negative. Selected papers were read and from them extracted any mention to cases examples ofdiseasesaggravated by climate hazards.
20 août 2022
Atmospheric soot loadings from nuclear weapon detonation would cause disruptions to the Earth’s climate, limiting terrestrial and aquatic food production. Here, we use climate, crop and fishery models to estimate the impacts arising from six scenarios of stratospheric soot injection, predicting the total food calories available in each nation post-war after stored food is consumed. In quantifying impacts away from target areas, we demonstrate that soot injections larger than 5 Tg would lead to mass food shortages, and livestock and aquatic food production would be unable to compensate for reduced crop output, in almost all countries. Adaptation measures such as food waste reduction would have limited impact on increasing available calories. We estimate more than 2 billion people could die from nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and more than 5 billion could die from a war between the United States and Russia—underlining the importance of global cooperation in preventing nuclear war.
18 août 2022
A great upheaval is coming. Climate-driven movement of people is adding to a massive migration already under way to the world’s cities. The number of migrants has doubled globally over the past decade, and the issue of what to do about rapidly increasing populations of displaced people will only become greater and more urgent. To survive climate breakdown will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.
With the Australian Actuaries Institute Climate Index reaching the highest rainfall and temperature levels since the index was launched in 2018, it is not surprising that the Actuaries Institute’s latest Green Paper has warned of climate change’s impact on home insurance affordability in Australia.
17 août 2022
De plannen van BP, Royal Dutch Shell en Equinor om minder CO2 uit te stoten zijn onverenigbaar met de doelstellingen van het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs voor een veilige en bewoonbare planeet. Dat blijkt uit een nieuwe analyse van denktank Climate Analytics.
11 août 2022
Climate endgame is the name some scientists have given to the hypothesis of a global societal collapse due to effects of climate change. The real chance of happening is considered small, but the researchers who warned most resoundingly about this danger in August 2022 seek to improve risk management by putting a higher priority on worst-case scenarios, to "galvanise action, improve resilience, and inform policy".
07 août 2022
Two of the UK’s leading hospitals have had to cancel operations, postpone appointments and divert seriously ill patients to other centres for the past three weeks after their computers crashed at the height of last month’s heatwave.
06 août 2022
At his remote woodland home, Ben Green is trying to stay positive about a collapse of the food supply
05 août 2022
On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court issued a landmark opinion in West Virginia v. EPA that substantially limited the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. Because the opinion concerned the proper scope of executive agency rulemaking, the decision may have profound effects on other regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission.
02 août 2022
Une gestion prudente des risques exige la prise en compte de scénarios allant du moins bon au pire. Or, dans le cas du changement climatique, ces futurs potentiels sont mal connus. Le changement climatique anthropique pourrait-il entraîner l’effondrement de la société mondiale, voire l’extinction de l’humanité ? À l’heure actuelle, il s’agit d’un sujet dangereusement sous-exploré. Pourtant, il existe de nombreuses raisons de penser que le changement climatique pourrait entraîner une catastrophe mondiale. L’analyse des mécanismes à l’origine de ces conséquences extrêmes pourrait contribuer à galvaniser l’action, à améliorer la résilience et à informer les politiques, y compris les réponses d’urgence. Nous exposons les connaissances actuelles sur la probabilité d’un changement climatique extrême, expliquons pourquoi il est vital de comprendre les cas les plus défavorables, exposons les raisons de s’inquiéter des résultats catastrophiques, définissons les termes clés et proposons un programme de recherche. Le pr
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic. Yet there are ample reasons to suspect that climate change could result in a global catastrophe...
01 août 2022
Prudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At present, this is a dangerously underexplored topic. Yet there are ample reasons to suspect that climate change could result in a global catastrophe. Analyzing the mechanisms for these extreme consequences could help galvanize action, improve resilience, and inform policy, including emergency responses. We outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, discuss why understanding bad-to-worst cases is vital, articulate reasons for concern about catastrophic outcomes, define key terms, and put forward a research agenda. The proposed agenda covers four main questions: 1) What is the potential for climate change to drive mass extinction events? 2) What are the mechanisms that could result in human mass mortality and morbidity? 3) Wh
Global heating could become "catastrophic" for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause cascades of events we have yet to consider, or indeed both. The world needs to start preparing for the possibility of a "climate endgame."
Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe. The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis. They call such a catastrophe the “climate endgame”. Though it had a small chance of occurring, given the uncertainties in future emissions and the climate system, cataclysmic scenarios could not be ruled out, they said.
Experts call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ research agenda, and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might pose a catastrophic risk to society and humanity.
31 juillet 2022
Scientists think we need to pay attention to a measure of heat and humidity – and it’s edging closer to the limits of human survivability
30 juillet 2022
Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are before can we head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist.
28 juillet 2022
Increasing risks posed by climate change are causing rare extreme events that can kill more than 10 million people or lead to damages of $10 trillion-plus, posing threats of total societal collapse, a UN report finds.
27 juillet 2022
Ce policy brief propose une série de recommandations et appelle au renforcement des connaissances en amont de l’implantation d’éoliennes en mer. Il prône une meilleure connaissance du fonctionnement des écosystèmes marins, des impacts cumulés des activités humaines existantes et des impacts sur le milieu marin du changement climatique, afin de guider la planification notamment dans le choix des zones d’implantation des éoliennes.
26 juillet 2022
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.
Wildfires, floods and soaring temperatures have made climate change real to many Americans. Yet a sizeable number continue to dismiss the scientific consensus that human activity is to blame. “Victory,” according to the American Petroleum Institute’s memo, “will be achieved when average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science… Unless ‘climate change’ becomes a non-issue… there may be no moment when we can declare victory.”
23 juillet 2022
Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting - between some of America's biggest industrial players and a PR genius - forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us.
The American West has gone bone dry, the Great Salt Lake is vanishing and water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two great life-giving reservoirs on the Colorado River basin, are declining with alarming speed. Wildfires are incinerating crops in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy, while parts of Britain suffocated last week in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
22 juillet 2022
It’s not too late to avert the climate crisis from becoming even more deadly – but the window is closing
21 juillet 2022
Report says global south has been ‘used as place to dump waste’ and that people of colour are suffering disproportionately
Climate change is reducing output and raising safety concerns at nuclear facilities from France to the US. But experts say adapting is possible—and necessary.
20 juillet 2022
Civil unrest, political instability, food insecurity, mass migration and worsening human rights are the baked-in secondary impacts of climate change, but you wouldn’t know that from the undercooked approach of governments and business. As the extreme weather events the world is already experiencing become more frequent, they will trigger a cascade of these second-order climate risks across a huge swathe of countries.
Climate scientists are clear that it’s already too late to go back to the kind of weather we used to have, but can we stop things from getting a whole lot worse? Professor Michael E Mann – from Penn State university in the United States – and author of ‘The New Climate War’ explains the radical change needed to avert catastrophic temperature rises.
Joe Biden is under pressure to declare a national climate emergency as temperatures soar across the US and Europe. Facing political gridlock in Washington, the president could make such an announcement – which would unlock federal resources to address the crisis – as soon as this week, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Residents of an Indonesian island threatened by rising sea levels have begun legal action against the cement producer Holcim. The claim for compensation, filed in Switzerland by three men and one woman, is understood to be the first major climate damages lawsuit against a cement company.
19 juillet 2022
Climate scientists have expressed shock at the UK’s smashed temperature record, with the heat soaring above 40C for the first time ever on Tuesday. Researchers are also increasingly concerned that extreme heatwaves in Europe are occurring more rapidly than models had suggested, indicating that the climate crisis on the European continent may be even worse than feared. Temperature records are usually broken by fractions of a degree, but the 40.2C recorded at Heathrow is 1.5C higher than the previous record of 38.7C recorded in 2019 in Cambridge.
18 juillet 2022
Chief meteorologist says extreme temperatures ‘entirely consistent’ with human-induced climate crisis
13 juillet 2022
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature. It therefore allows the disentangling of different drivers of extreme weather from human-induced climate change and hence provides valuable information to adapt to climate change and to assess loss and damage. However, providing such assessments systematically is currently out of reach. This is due to limitations in attribution science, including the capacity for studying different types of events, as well as the geographical heterogeneity of both climate and impact data availability. Here, we review current knowledge of the influences of climate change on five different extreme weather hazards (extreme temperatures, heavy rainfall, drought, wildfire, tropical cyclones), the impacts of recent extreme weather events of each type, and thus the degree to which various impacts are attributable to climate change.
12 juillet 2022
Europese investeringen in gas en kernenergie krijgen voortaan het label groen, zo is vorige week besloten. Dit is pure greenwashing, waarschuwen Esther Bollendorff en Olivier Vardakoulias, beleidsexperts bij Climate Action Network Europe. De EU moet erop rekenen dat de nieuwe classificatie in de rechtbank wordt aangevochten.
11 juillet 2022
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.
