Tag: Climate change

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  IEA insists increasing fossil fuel production contradicts goals to stop global warming

  

  Fatih Birol, head of the powerful International Energy Agency, (IEA),, the Paris-based organization led by the energy ministers of mostly rich countries, has warned that companies that increase fossil fuel production are contradicting goals to stop the planet warming.

• Tuesday, April 4th 2023 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil launches platform to spot climate vulnerable terrain

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR) and Microsoft do Brasil Monday launched the ClimaAdapt platform, a tool that uses public data from different environmental agencies to identify regions nationwide particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  UN meeting on climate change kicks off in Chile

  

  Experts from all over the world convened in Santiago, Chile, Monday for the opening day of a United Nations (UN) week of adaptation to climate change to address impacts and challenges, it was reported.

• Monday, March 27th 2023 - 10:02 UTC

  Brazilian Gov't eyes permanent climate emergency for over 1,000 cities

  

  Brazil's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva Sunday admitted that President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva's administration was considering the possibility of declaring a state of climate emergency in 1,038 municipalities mapped as most vulnerable, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, March 24th 2023 - 02:33 UTC

  Crops revolution: England allows gene-edited food to be developed commercially

  

  Gene-edited food can now be developed commercially in England following a change in the law, reports BBC. Supporters of the technology say it will speed up the development of hardier crops that will be needed because of climate change.

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  Landmark UN Water conference in New York to address climate change and drinking water

  

  Leaders will gather this week in New York City for a landmark United Nations conference, an event expected to focus on the rising toll of the climate crisis and the effort to provide clean drinking water to a global population of over 8 billion.

• Tuesday, March 21st 2023 - 09:51 UTC

  Guterres warns climate bomb ticking

  

  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday in a recorded appearance before a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that in order to avoid a climate catastrophe, carbon emissions must be halved by 2030 because “the climate bomb is ticking.”

• Monday, March 20th 2023 - 15:54 UTC

  Antarctic sea ice hitting historic lows

  

  A website specialized in weather news published this past weekend a report stating that Antarctic sea ice reached another historic low after a trend of ice loss in recent years seems to have come to stay because while Antarctic sea ice shows an almost flat trend, the minima appear to have gained on that trend.

• Saturday, March 18th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

  Alckmin discusses Brazil's ties with European envoy beyond Mercosur

  

  Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin met Friday with the European Commission's Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager to discuss the South American country's relations beyond the Mercosur deal, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, February 28th 2023 - 08:38 UTC

  Antarctic ice reported to be at an all-time low

  

  Antarctic sea ice was reported last Feb. 13 to consist of just 737,000 square miles (1.91 million square kilometers). These figures meant a significant drop from the 741,000 square miles (1.92 million square kilometers) recorded on Feb. 25 last year by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).