Tag: Climate change

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 00:04 UTC

  US President and Pope discuss climate change and COVID-19 vaccines

  

  US President Joseph Biden Friday met in Vatican City with Pope Francis, in an encounter during which climate change and COVID-19 vaccines topped the agenda at the same time the issue of abortion was cautiously overlooked by the Catholic Church's leader and one of his most prominent adherents.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  COP26 Finance Delivery Plan still short of the US$ 100bn agreed by developed countries

  

  The UK COP26 Presidency has published a Climate Finance Delivery Plan to provide clarity on when and how developed countries will meet the US$ 100 billion climate finance goal pledged.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Brazil envisions plans to cut down Amazon deforestation while developing other activities in the rainforest

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week 1 million hectares per year will suffer deforestation until the year 2030, despite Vice President Hamilton Mourão's announcement Monday that plans to avoid it would be announced at the upcoming 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-26) in Glasgow.

• Monday, October 25th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Climate change tops agenda during encounter between Argentine, US officials

  

  Argentina's Secretary of Strategic Affairs Gustavo Beliz and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan held a meeting in Washington DC to discuss the climate change agenda and the current negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, it was reported.

• Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Blinken says the US has plans to curb Amazon deforestation

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Thursday announced while on an official trip to Colombia that his country would launch a regional pact to reduce deforestation throughout the Amazon

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Widespread collapse of West Antarctica’s ice sheet is avoidable if we keep global warming below 2℃

  

  By Dan Lowry, Mario Krapp, Te Herenga Waka (*) – Rising seas are already making storm damage more costly, adding to the impact on about 700 million people who live in low-lying coastal areas at risk of flooding. Scientists expect sea-level rise will exacerbate the damage from storm surges and coastal floods during the coming decades. But predicting just how much and how fast the seas will rise this century is difficult, mainly because of uncertainties about how Antarctica’s ice sheet will behave.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Charges filed against Brazil's President before ICC: “The Planet vs. Bolsonaro”

  

  Charges against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro have been filed before the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for deforestation of the Amazon, it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2021 - 15:25 UTC

  WHO/COP26 Special report on Climate Change and Health for Glasgow climate summit

  

  Countries must set ambitious national climate commitments if they are to sustain a healthy and green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:17 UTC

  UN recognizes that a clean, healthy, sustainable environment is a human right

  

  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on States to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human Rights Council’s landmark decision.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty 30th anniversary

  

  By Professor Klaus Dodds (*) – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was agreed in 1991 and came into force in 1998, once it had been ratified by all 26 (currently 28) Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties. Professor Klaus Dodds explores the extensive and delicate negotiations that made this possible.