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We are an international group of researchers and practitioners interested in the emerging fields of post-growth and ecological macroeconomics. Our aim is to advance economic theory, methodology and policy in order to adequately address some of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change, rising inequality, and financial instability.

We make meaningful climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail.

How does one talk about climate change when armed conflicts are spiralling out of control?

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy. Politicians are using language like this increasingly often – calling themselves “pragmatic” on climate change and invoking “common sense”. It sounds reasonable, reassuring, and grownup – the opposite of “hysterical” campaigners or “unrealistic” targets.

Avant l’été, un site gouvernemental américain d’information sur le climat a été invisibilisé par l’administration Trump. Depuis, d’anciens employés fédéraux travaillent bénévolement pour ressusciter son contenu.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is an important tipping element in the climate system. There is a large uncertainty whether the AMOC will start to collapse during the century under future climate change, as this requires long climate model simulations which are not always available. Here, we analyze targeted climate model simulations done with the Community Earth System Model (CESM) with the aim to develop a physics-based indicator for the onset of an AMOC tipping event. This indicator is diagnosed from the surface buoyancy fluxes over the North Atlantic Ocean and is performing successfully under quasi-equilibrium freshwater forcing, freshwater pulse forcing, climate change scenarios, and for different climate models. An analysis consisting of 25 different climate models shows that the AMOC could begin to collapse by 2063 (from 2026 to 2095, to percentiles) under an intermediate emission scenario (SSP2-4.5), or by 2055 (from 2023 to 2076, to percentiles) under a high-end emission scenar

This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III. This bias stems from structural features of the scientific field that prioritizes innovation, leading to the overrepresentation of technological solutions in climate research. Funding mechanisms further reinforce this tendency by incentivizing collaboration with industrial R&D, creating a self-reinforcing loop in which scientific authority and industrial interests converge. The IPCC's institutional positioning—as a policy-relevant yet politically cautious body—amplifies this dynamic by favoring allegedly “cost-effective” technological pathways that lack practical feasibility.

Passing 1.5ºC is now inevitable. Overshoot scenarios tell us that we can relatively safely pass this level but then bring temperatures back down again, but how realistic are they, and how safe?

Climate sensitivity is substantially higher than IPCC’s best estimate (3°C for doubled CO2), a conclusion we reach with greater than 99 percent confidence. We also show that global climate forcing by aerosols became stronger (increasingly negative) during 1970-2005, unlike IPCC’s best estimate of aerosol forcing. High confidence in these conclusions is based on a broad analysis approach. IPCC’s underestimates of climate sensitivity and aerosol cooling follow from their disproportionate emphasis on global climate modeling, an approach that will not yield timely, reliable, policy advice.

Farming seaweed, changing ocean chemistry, breeding corals and restoring mangroves could help fight climate change – if assessed and managed responsibly.

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it?

C’est une tendance qui ne faiblit pas sur les réseaux sociaux. Face à la crise écologique, des centaines de jeunes témoignent de leur pessimisme quant à notre capacité à redresser la barre : on les appelle les "climate doomers". Résultat d’une éco-anxiété grandissante, ce phénomène participe à freiner l’action climatique.

For decades, the surface of the polar Southern Ocean (south of 50°S) has been freshening—an expected response to a warming climate. This freshening enhanced upper-ocean stratification, reducing the upward transport of subsurface heat and possibly contributing to sea ice expansion. It also limited the formation of open-ocean polynyas. Using satellite observations, we reveal a marked increase in surface salinity across the circumpolar Southern Ocean since 2015. This shift has weakened upper-ocean stratification, coinciding with a dramatic decline in Antarctic sea ice coverage. Additionally, rising salinity facilitated the reemergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea, a phenomenon last observed in the mid-1970s.

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Les financements aux industries du pétrole et du gaz repartent de plus belle. Le rapport Banking on climate chaos, signé par huit ONG, estime à près de 900 milliards de dollars les financements octroyés en 2024 par 65 banques aux industriels du secteur, en augmentation de 23%. Le backlash contre la finance durable n’est pas étranger à ce nouvel appétit de la finance pour les hydrocarbures.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat Climate breakdown is usually held up as the biggest, most urgent threat humans pose to the future of the planet today. But what if there was another, greater, human-made threat that could snuff out not only human civilisation, but practically the entire biosphere, in the blink of an eye?

Despite mounting evidence of global warming’s costs, the Trump administration has made multiple moves to avoid tracking climate-related economics.

On 21 April 2019, I was on Waterloo Bridge in London with my younger siblings. Around us were planters full of flowers where there were once cars, and people singing. This was the spring iteration of Extinction Rebellion, when four bridges in London were held by protesters. My siblings, then 14, had been going out on school strike inspired by Greta Thunberg, and wanted to see her speak.

Societies increasingly rely on scientists to guide decisions in times of uncertainty, from pandemic outbreaks to the rise of artificial intelligence. Addressing climate change is no different. For governments wanting to introduce ambitious climate policies, public trust in climate scientists is pivotal, because it can determine whether voters support or resist those efforts.

The nation’s top banks are quietly advising their clients on how to build a financial life raft — or perhaps life yacht — from the wreckage of runaway climate change. Make no mistake: The forecasts coming from Wall Street’s leading financial institutions are bleak. But they also point their clients to potential profit-making opportunities from the havoc spreading across the planet, writes Corbin Hiar.

Climate change is driving rising global temperatures, ecological degradation, and widespread human suffering. Yet, as a collective, humanity has failed to implement sufficient changes to mitigate these threats. This paper introduces the concept of “global narcissism” as a speculative lens to analyze the psychological barriers to climate action. By examining different levels of narcissism and their manifestations in human responses to climate change, this framework highlights key obstacles to meaningful action. While humanity is diverse, and lived experiences vary greatly, this perspective offers a way to discuss patterns of response and resistance. A central challenge lies in humanity’s difficulty in recognizing its symbiotic relationship with the non-human world. Through the metaphor of “global narcissism” this paper explores how humanity’s response to ecological crisis mirrors narcissistic defense mechanisms and suggests a collapse is taking place. This framework provides insights into how psychological int

Springtails illustrate in new research how global warning and antibiotic resistance creates synergistic effects: warming increases pesticide toxicity, triggering antibiotic resistance which spreads through horizontal gene transfer and predation.

A superpower in the fight against global heating is hiding in plain sight. It turns out that the overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree goal.Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show.

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems. Can we stop it weakening by 2050?

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the world's strongest ocean current and plays a disproportionate role in the climate system due to its role as a conduit for major ocean basins. This current system is linked to the ocean's vertical overturning circulation, and is thus pivotal to the uptake of heat and CO2 in the ocean. The strength of the ACC has varied substantially across warm and cold climates in Earth's past, but the exact dynamical drivers of this change remain elusive. This is in part because ocean models have historically been unable to adequately resolve the small-scale processes that control current strength. Here, we assess a global ocean model simulation which resolves such processes to diagnose the impact of changing thermal, haline and wind conditions on the strength of the ACC. Our results show that, by 2050, the strength of the ACC declines by ∼20% for a high-emissions scenario. This decline is driven by meltwater from ice shelves around Antarctica, which is exported to lower latit

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), vital for northwards heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean, is projected to weaken owing to global warming1, with significant global climate impacts2. However, the extent of AMOC weakening is uncertain with wide variation a …

One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.

Shifting responsibility to consumers minimises the role of energy industry and policymakers, University of Sydney research suggests

On the topic of climate and carbon reduction commitments, corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Shell once positioned themselves as leaders in sustainability, setting ambitious net-zero goals to align with global environmental efforts. However, the rapid rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence is forcing these companies to reconsider—or even abandon—these commitments as they struggle to balance environmental responsibility and making money from new tech.

Sea ice extent for the Arctic overall as of mid-December is at the lowest for this point in the season in the entire satellite era record (since autumn 1978) Whether this is a transient low extent or not, expanded open water now, with the winter solstice upon us, means that there’s less time for ice, once it forms, to thicken up before the spring melt commences in a few months.

As the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists swarmed a Washington venue last week, the packed halls have been permeated by an air of anxiety and even dread over a new Donald Trump presidency that might worsen what has been a bruising few years for science.

The climate and ecological crisis poses an unprecedented challenge, with scientists playing a critical role in how society understands and responds. This study examined how 27 environmentally concerned scientists from 11 countries construct the future in the context of climate change, applying a critical discursive psychology analysis. The degree to which the future is constructed as predetermined or transformable impacts both the urgency and scope of proposed actions. ...

Trump could reverse the nation’s progress on climate change, but rolling back the Biden administration’s significant climate successes could be a low, slow and difficult process...

Global warming has already caused the Arctic to release more climate-warming methane—but exactly how much will depend closely on the actions we take to halt climate change.

A Trump presidency can delay, but not stop, the global transition to renewable energy, but it may more effectively stymie progress than during his first term.

A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.

We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled. We are stepping into a critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis. For many years, scientists, including a group of more than 15,000, have sounded the alarm about the impending dangers of climate change driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem change (Ripple et al. 2020).

Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says

To analyze the climate change experienced in Spain between 1971 and 2022 and to estimate the future climate for 2050.

The EU is being sued for failing to set ambitious climate targets in sectors that contribute more than half of the bloc’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Misinformation by fossil fuel companies is slowing down the energy transition and global efforts to tackle climate change, warns the UN.

Adapt2climate est un site développé par la Commission Nationale Climat dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du Plan National Adaptation. Ce portail national vise à mettre à disposition les informations disponibles concernant les incidences des changements climatiques, les évaluations de vulnérabilité et l’adaptation en Belgique.

A new study suggests that the Gulf Stream was stronger during the last ice age due to more powerful winds, indicating that future changes in wind patterns could weaken the Gulf Stream, affecting European climate and North American sea levels. This research enhances our understanding of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its vulnerability to climate change.

In Virginia, a small conservation group is leading the fight against the powerful and secretive data center industry.

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.

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.

Et si lutter efficacement contre le réchauffement climatique devrait passer par l'utilisation d'une IA experte dans le domaine ?

Near-real time updates of key global climate variables from the the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)

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.

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.

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.

A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.

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.

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…

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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'.

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.

Dans ce document explicatif court et facile à lire, nous analysons les effets du changement climatique sur la paix et la sécurité.

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.

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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.

Antarctica’s sea ice levels are plummeting as extreme weather events happen faster than scientists predicted

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.

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.

Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions

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.

Without more legally binding and well-planned net-zero policies, the world is highly likely to miss key climate targets.

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.

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

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.

Higher rates slow the renewable energy transition and shield oil and gas producers from competition by low-carbon producers

Andreas Malm says he has no hope in ‘dominant classes’, and urges more radical approach to climate activism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Three months before COP27, new research suggests the most ambitious climate pledges are also most credible.

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.

Anuna De Wever a donné de ses nouvelles sur les réseaux sociaux.

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.

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

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.

An investor’s rant gives an insight into the City’s short-termist view of the environment crisis

Climate tipping points in the Antarctica, the Arctic and the Amazon are at risk of being reached before or at the current level of global warming of 1.2 degrees Celsius, requiring a “major rethink” of global climate goals and the action necessary to achieve them, according to a recent report.

Le géant de l’énergie envisage de construire un méga pipeline en Ouganda et en Tanzanie. Les défenseurs de la cause climatique, environnementale et sociale, appellent le gouvernement belge à exprimer son opposition à un tel projet.

Deux instituts d'études spécialisés ont appelé vendredi les pays du G20 à renforcer rapidement leurs engagements climatiques pour tenter de respecter les objectifs de l'accord de Paris comme ils l'ont promis lors de la dernière conférence climat COP26. "Aucun des pays du G20 n'en fait assez pour maintenir l'espoir de limiter le réchauffement à 1,5°C" par rapport à l'ère pré-industrielle, a déclaré dans un communiqué Tom Evans, de l'institut E3G qui publie une analyse des derniers engagements de ces pays conjointement avec le Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.

En février 2022, la revue Plos Climate, spécialisée dans les questions relatives au changement climatique, a fait paraître en accès libre un article au titre évocateur : Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century (L’arrêt rapide de l’élevage à l’échelle mondiale pourrait stabiliser les niveaux de gaz à effet de serre pendant 30 ans et compenser 68 % des émissions de CO2 de ce siècle).

It took me a while but I finally digested the 107 pages of Chapter 5: Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation in the last IPCC report on Mitigation of climate change. This chapter is worth the read if only because it’s the first one fully dedicated to demand-side strategies. What I find remarkable is its conceptual width, including a few ideas that are usually considered too radical in these kind of venues. But just like the rest of the report, it is long and – as academic writing too often is – full of abstract jargon and somnolent prose. What I want to do in this article is to explain why Chapter 5 is more radical (in the good sense of the term) that you may think.

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

Le financement des énergies fossiles par les 60 plus grandes banques au monde a atteint 4 600 milliards de dollars sur les six années qui nous séparent de l'adoption de l'accord de Paris, avec 742 milliards pour la seule année 2021. Ce rapport examine le financement des banques commerciales et d'investissement à l'industrie des énergies fossiles - prenant en compte leurs rôles de prêteur et d'émetteur d'actions et de titres de dette - et en conclut que, même au cours d'une année où les engagements « zéro émission nette » étaient très en vogue, le secteur financier a continué, par sa logique de business as usual, à alimenter le chaos climatique.

Une centaine d'Ukrainiens se sont rassemblés aux côtés du mouvement environnemental 'Rise for Climate', samedi à Anvers afin de mettre fin à l'approvisionnement de l'énergie russe en Belgique.

Le Giec (Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat) publie ce lundi 4 avril le dernier volet de son rapport consacré aux moyens de faire face à l’urgence climatique. Tandis que les deux précédents volets de ce 6e rapport des experts du climat de l’ONU ont confirmé l’urgence climatique, ce nouveau rapport titré AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (6e rapport d’évaluation sur le changement climatique : l’atténuation du changement climatique) doit permettre aux gouvernements de trouver des solutions pour limiter le réchauffement à 2°C. Il passe en revue les possibilités existantes pour réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. La sortie rapide des énergies fossiles (le pétrole et le charron), l’électrification, la décarbonation de l’économie ainsi que la capture et le stockage du carbone figurent parmi les solutions mises en avant. Le Giec constate aussi un ralentissement dans l’augmentation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et une insuffisance des investissements.

Bien qu’elles reconnaissent qu’une réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre est nécessaire, les cinq grandes banques canadiennes — RBC, Banque Scotia, TD, BMO et CIBC — ont augmenté de 70 % leur soutien au secteur des énergies fossiles en 2021 par rapport à l’année précédente. C’est ce qui ressort de la dernière édition du rapport Banking on Climate Chaos, publiée mercredi par un consortium d’organisations de la société civile appuyé par Greenpeace Canada.

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Des centaines d'ONG ont appelé vendredi le monde à mettre fin à son "addiction aux énergies fossiles" qu'elles considèrent comme un moteur de l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. Il est "clair que la machine de guerre (russe) a été financée, nourrie et alimentée par les industries du charbon, du pétrole et du gaz qui encouragent à la fois l'invasion qui menace l'Ukraine et la crise climatique qui menace l'avenir de l'humanité", écrivent dans une lettre ouverte ces organisations, dont 350.org, Climate Action Network ou Carbon Market Watch, ainsi que des dizaines de groupes ukrainiens.

Many pathways to stopping climate change involve overshooting 1.5°C temporarily. The latest synthesis of 34,000 references says that’s a bad idea.

On 28 February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body solely dedicated to looking at the science behind climate change, will release a major report on the impacts of the climate crisis and why it is imperative that we act now to address the growing risks. The report, which focuses on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, is expected to detail how climate impacts are already wreaking havoc in every part of the world and how, without much bolder action, more lives will be lost and more livelihoods destroyed. The report will look at challenges and solutions for addressing these risks and minimizing vulnerability unique to the world’s regions, cities and other habitats.

We may lose up to three meters of coastline in the Arctic every year by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The authors also warn about bigger waves due to increasing temperatures, making the coastline very vulnerable to further losses due to erosion.

Momentum to phase out unabated coal use is growing globally. This transition is critical to meeting the Paris climate goals but can potentially lead to large amounts of stranded assets, especially in regions with newer and growing coal fleets. Here we combine plant-level data with a global integrated assessment model to quantify changes in global stranded asset risks from coal-fired power plants across regions and over time. With new plant proposals, cancellations, and retirements over the past five years, global net committed emissions in 2030 from existing and planned coal plants declined by 3.3 GtCO2 (25%). While these emissions are now roughly in line with initial Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, they remain far off track from longer-term climate goals. Progress made in 2021 towards no new coal can potentially avoid a 24% (503 GW) increase in capacity and a 55% ($520 billion) increase in stranded assets under 1.5 °C. Stranded asset risks fall disproportionately on emergin

Climate change is raising flood risks in neighborhoods across the U.S. much faster than many people realize. Over the next three decades, the cost of flood damage is on pace to rise 26% due to climate change alone, an analysis of our new flood risk maps shows.

The only indigenous people left in Europe are struggling to keep their way of life as the Arctic warms up

Tapio, fondée à Bruxelles en 2019, figure parmi les start-up climate tech pionnières en Europe. "Dans les appels d'offres européens, nous revenons systématiquement dans les 5 ou 6 sociétés retenues pour déposer une offre", explique Nathan Clarke, cofondateur et CEO de Tapio (nom qui, pour la petite histoire, fait référence à une divinité protectrice de la forêt dans la mythologie finnoise).

L'observatoire Climate Chance vient de publier son nouveau panorama de l'action climatique au niveau mondial. S'il y a quelques raisons de s'enthousiasmer avec l'envolée des ventes de voitures électriques ou le boom des énergies renouvelables, sur le fond, la transition n'est pas encore là. Les émissions de gaz à effet serre sont toujours en hausse et notre modèle de production et de consommation, basé sur les énergies fossiles, n'est pas remis en cause.

Le "bilan mondial de l'action climat par secteur" de l'association Climate Chance compile toutes les initiatives des entreprises, États et collectivités de la planète face au réchauffement climatique. Il en ressort cette année que le monde du capital "s'adapte" à la contrainte de la transition énergétique pour continuer de croître.

Une analyse partagée par Adélaïde Charlier, la coordinatrice francophone de "Youth for Climate" de Belgique. "Il y a eu des côtés positifs, mais surtout négatifs", a-t-elle fait savoir sur le JT de 13h de la RTBF. La jeune militante regrette que la conférence ne soit pas allée plus loin concernant les énergies fossiles et le charbon.

À l’aide de l’algorithme que nous avons développé, nous avons analysé l’offre de cours et de formation de l’enseignement supérieur en Belgique (universités et hautes écoles). Notre analyse révèle que plus de 60% des formations ne comportent aucun cours qui traitent des enjeux climatiques et environnementaux, et que seuls 5% des cours traitent de ces sujets. L’offre de formation est en outre très cloisonnée et concentrée surtout auprès des sciences et sciences appliquées. Enfin, une enquête que nous avons réalisée auprès d’un échantillon d’étudiants révèle que plus de 87% d’entre eux souhaitent être formés à ces enjeux. Face à ce constat, nous proposons des pistes de réflexion pour soutenir la transition et l’adaptation des formations de l’enseignement supérieur.

Les toutes nouvelles promesses annoncées à la COP26 de Glasgow engendreraient un réchauffement de la planète d'environ 2,4°C d'ici la fin du siècle, selon le groupe de recherche Climate Action Tracker. Cela les placerait loin de la limite de 1,5°C, que les scientifiques estiment nécessaire pour éviter les effets les plus dévastateurs du changement climatique.

Pandering to the rich has got us into this mess. The correlation between wealth and polluting behaviour could not be clearer

Our civilization needs the greatest economic transformation in human history. We have to halve our rate of consumption, and double our investment rate. That is a fact everyone should know, children should be taught at school, which should make headlines every single day.

Après une première semaine riche en annonces plus ou moins significatives, la COP26 entre dans le dur. Les négociations sur le climat, qui doivent s’achever vendredi, deviennent plus techniques. Les dirigeants sont en train de bûcher sur «de nouveaux plans climatiques d’ici 2023 pour maintenir 1,5°C à portée de main, les flux financiers, les règles de reporting et le fonctionnement des marchés mondiaux du carbone», résume l’European Climate Foundation. Avec trois mauvais élèves qui tentent de freiner les actions ambitieuses : l’Arabie saoudite, le Brésil et l’Australie. Libération fait le point sur trois dossiers brûlants.

Le Climate Action Tracker (CAT), un consortium de scientifiques sur le climat, tire la sonnette d’alarme dans sa mise à jour mondiale annuelle publiée ce mardi. Il pointe le déficit de crédibilité de la COP26 à Glasgow alors que l’action réelle des Etats ne reflète pas les promesses de réduction des émissions, à moyen ou long terme. Les parties à la Convention-cadre des Nations Unies sur le réchauffement du climat ne font ni assez fort, ni assez vite pour limiter la hausse du thermomètre de la planète, selon le CAT.

La première grève mondiale pour le climat, c’était en 2018. Depuis, les actions en faveur de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique ne font qu’augmenter. En Belgique, le mouvement "Youth for Climate" s’inspire de la démarche de l’activiste suédoise Greta Thunberg et mobilise de milliers de jeunes belges. Retour et analyse sur un mouvement en ascension.

La COP26 qui réunit actuellement les dirigeants mondiaux à Glasgow, en Écosse, pour un sommet sur le climat a été l'occasion pour le Premier ministre belge Alexander De Croo de s'exprimer sur le sujet. Son allocution a cependant déçu l’initiatrice du mouvement Youth for Climate Belgium, Anuna De Wever: "Des soupirs et des rires d'incrédulité face aux nombreux clichés."

In the Paris Agreement, over 200 countries decided upon limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius. Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg ratified the agreement and consecutively, in November 2018, they signed the Benelux Talanoa Declaration, emphasizing their common pathway in achieving these goals. In addition, the Benelux Talanoa Declaration calls upon the creation of a platform to enhance further dialogue between the Benelux countries, as well as with stakeholders committed and working towards to the climate objectives on a policy, technical, scientific, practical or more conceptual level.

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, on Monday issued a blistering critique of the world’s failure to rein in global warming, calling on countries to return every year to review their climate targets — not every five years, as the Paris climate agreement spells out. “Even if the recent pledges were clear and credible — and there are serious questions about some of them — we are still careening towards climate catastrophe,” he said at the opening ceremony of COP26, the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow.

As a leading climate scientist, Paola Arias doesn’t need to look far to see the world changing. Shifting rain patterns threaten water supplies in her home city of Medellín, Colombia, while rising sea levels endanger the country’s coastline. She isn’t confident that international leaders will slow global warming or that her own government can handle the expected fallout, such as mass migrations and civil unrest over rising inequality. With such an uncertain future, she thought hard several years ago about whether to have children.

Une trentaine de jeunes militants écologistes ont occupé le Science Museum de Londres dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi pour dénoncer ses partenariats avec des compagnies pétrolières, un type de mécénat de plus en plus critiqué. Les militants, membres de UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN London), ont passé la nuit dans le hall du musée londonien, après avoir effectué une veillée à la bougie pour "les victimes" des sponsors du musée, BP, Shell, Equinor.

Réalisé auprès de 1 000 Américains par YouGov pour Vice News, The Guardian et Covering Climate Now, les résultats de ce sondage interpelle.

The World’s Next Big Problem Is That We’re Too Depressed and Traumatized to Fix All the Others

Kim Le Quang, co-fondateur de Rise for Climate, un collectif citoyen bénévole et engagé né il y a environ trois ans, était ce jeudi matin l’Invité de La Première pour faire le point sur ce dossier. Il a répondu aux questions de Sophie Brems. À quelques jours du début de la COP26 à Glasgow, vous voulez faire entendre votre voix auprès des chefs d’États européens ?

Chronic kidney disease linked to heat stress could become a major health epidemic for millions of workers around the world as global temperatures increase over the coming decades, doctors have warned.

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De nombreuses écoles à travers toute la Belgique se mobiliseront vendredi pour une action commune nommée "Wake Up for Climate" et visant à montrer leur engagement dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique, peut-on lire mercredi sur l'événement Facebook créé par la Coalition climat.

Le constat est effrayant. Ce rapport, intitulé State of Climate Services 2021: Water, tire la sonnette d'alarme. Il faut s'attendre à ce que le stress hydrique augmente massivement. En 2018, 3,6 milliards de personnes n'ont pas eu un accès suffisant à l'eau pendant au moins un mois. D'ici à 2050, elles devraient être plus de 5 milliards. Soit plus de la moitié de la population mondiale.

La 26e conférence annuelle de l'ONU sur le climat sous la présidence britannique et en partenariat avec l'Italie aura lieu cette année à Glasgow du 1er au 12 novembre 2021.

Cette stratégie est explicitée dès l’introduction du Mémorandum : la fonction du mouvement social, selon la Coalition, est d’amener la Belgique à « soutenir pleinement » la politique de la Commission von der Leyen, afin de faire de notre pays un « leader climatique responsable ». Le vieux slogan « System change not climate change » est remisé discrètement aux archives. Il ne s’agit plus de combattre le système mais d’implémenter le « modèle » qui rendra le système « résilient ».

The world is dangerously off track to meet the Paris Agreement goals. The risks are compounding. Without immediate action the impacts will be devastating in the coming decades.

As the world starts to seriously entertain the possibility of commercially mining the deep sea for valuable metals, it’s worth taking a closer look at the claims used to justify its potentially long-lived impacts.

Europe’s 25 largest banks are still failing to present comprehensive plans that address both the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, putting their sustainability pledges in doubt, campaigners have warned.

A novel tool for flexible spatial and temporal analyses of much of the observed and projected climate change information underpinning the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, including regional synthesis for Climatic Impact-Drivers (CIDs).

Ancrée dans la science, notre mission est de promouvoir un avenir sain, respectant les limites planétaires. La crise climatique et écologique menace notre santé à tous, directement et indirectement. Pour y faire face, les systèmes de santé doivent devenir plus durables et résilients, passant notamment par une amélioration de leur empreinte et de leur potentiel d’adaptation. Nous nous engageons pour cette transition systémique. « Docsforclimate », fondé en Belgique en 2019, rejoint le mouvement international « Health for Future », originaire d’Allemagne, et en a adopté le nom.

The industry has been pushing through policies devoting billions of dollars to the technology, and much more is likely to come with legislation pending before Congress.

Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points. The research found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the currents that researchers call the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown.

The Atlantic Ocean's current system, an engine of the Northern Hemsiphere's climate, could be weakening to such an extent that it could soon bring big changes to the world's weather, a scientific study said on Thursday.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major ocean current system transporting warm surface waters toward the northern Atlantic, has been suggested to exhibit two distinct modes of operation. A collapse from the currently attained strong to the weak mode would have severe impacts on the global climate system and further multi-stable Earth system components. Observations and recently suggested fingerprints of AMOC variability indicate a gradual weakening during the last decades, but estimates of the critical transition point remain uncertain.

How sensitive is the climate to increasing carbon dioxide? What’s going on with clouds? Did climate change fuel recent extreme weather? Have regional climate projections improved? How will Antarctic ice sheets contribute to sea-level rise?

Les activistes de Youth for Climate et de la Coalition Climat, un collectif de 80 organisations, organiseront une nouvelle grande action le dimanche 10 octobre. Intitulé "Back To The Climate", l'événement veut rappeler au monde politique que des progrès urgents sont nécessaires dans la lutte contre le changement climatique.

This is Why it Feels Like We Might Not Have a Future Anymore. The truth is that we’re probably way past the point of no return. Every thoughtful mind can see the writing on the wall. Experts, like me, can weight in with facts. Ecologists will tell you that mass annihilation is going to rip us apart, too. Climate scientists will tell you it hasn’t been this hot for millions of years, and every year, the temperature goes up by the equivalent in bio-geological time, of a few million years.

The politics of this new, extreme individualism will make collective responses to social crises impossible, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

One can safely say that Bangladesh is a country of rivers, cyclones and floods which in years past would have caused huge numbers of deaths at times. However, over the years Bangladesh has invested in making sure that we no longer lose lives when such disasters strike us.

A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown. Pierre Ozer has been expecting these floods for decades.

It’s Beginning to Feel Like We’ve Finally Pushed the Planet Past its Final Tipping Point. We have “extreme events” the kind scientists have long feared. But they’ve even shocked scientists with how suddenly extreme and frequent they are. And “This is not a localised freak event, it is definitely part of a coherent global pattern.”

The Boiling Planet. The Pandemic. The Dying Planet. The Collapse. The Fascism. None of This is Remotely Normal.

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