Environment

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  UN Chief says enough rhetoric regarding gas emissions

  

  UN Secretary-General António Guterres Thursday urged world governments to move on from rhetoric to action while pursuing an “ambitious” deal to preserve the environment. The Portuguese diplomat's remarks came during the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  New discoveries in Antarctica shed light on climate change's impact

  

  Researchers from Imperial College London have described a recent discovery in Antarctica as a clear sign of the loss of ice as a consequence of climate change. In their expert opinion, the newly-found 460-kilometer-long (285 miles) river under the Antarctic ice has accelerated the loss of ice mass.

• Thursday, November 17th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Lula wants to host COP30, announces Ministry of Indigenous People

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced during his appearance at the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, that he will create a ministry of native peoples so that indigenous people “are not treated as bandits.”

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 10:35 UTC

  Paraguay not bowing to global pressure against cattle farming

  

  Paraguay's delegation attending the COP27 climate summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh Tuesday announced that the South American country would not endorse any collective statement curbing livestock farming.

• Wednesday, November 16th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazil signs biodiversity deal with Indonesia and Congo

  

  Brazil's Foreign Ministry announced that the South American country had reached a biodiversity agreement with Indonesia and Congo to preserve their respective tropical rainforests, which are the largest in the world.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits record highs

  

  Brazil's Amazon lost 903.8 square kilometers of forest during the month of October of 2022, which is tantamount to 3% more than in the same period last year, the National Institute of Special Research (INPE) reported during the weekend.

• Monday, November 14th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Shipping industry addresses decarbonization goals: training of 800,000 seafarers required

  

  A new action plan, launched at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt by United Nations organizations, ship-owners and unions, sets out recommendations to up skill seafarers to meet shipping’s decarbonization goals.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 20:16 UTC

  COP27 told Brazil in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen

  

  Brazilian dignitaries to the Conference of Parties 27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm El-Sheikh announced that their country was in a hurry to start producing green hydrogen and electricity from wind turbines to be installed offshore.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:41 UTC

  Three killed as Hurricane Nicole makes landfall in Florida

  

  Hurricane Nicole made landfall in the US State of Florida, killing at least three people on Thursday, as the tropical storm evolved into something deadlier, it was reported.

• Friday, November 11th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands residents demand “local and world leaders tackle climate change”

  

  In the light and spirit of COP27 a group of Falklands residents have organized a demonstration to “demand action from leaders, both locally and worldwide to tackle the natural disasters we currently face,” organizer Mark McLeod told Penguin News. The demonstration will take place at the Jetty Centre at midday on Saturday November 12.