Bali hearing?

South Asia

Please all, blame all

PM’s climate change council has not met in almost 7 years

Who is, then, advising the PM for his climate goal announcements?

‘Attribution studies help increase awareness about links between human activities and climate change’

Down To Earth talks to Wenxia Zhang, author of paper on attribution of extreme heat & drought events in 2022 at COP28

COP27 diary (November 17): Details on loss and damage facility, phasing out coal missing from ‘Cover Decision’ draft

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

Heatwaves arrive early in 2023; hit 11 states from March 3 to April 18

22 states/UTs recorded above-normal maximum temperature on April 18, 2023

Rewilding Tasmania with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems

Why did the Tasmanian emus go extinct and should we reintroduce them?

Study finds land availability limited to achieve biodiversity targets and apply climate mitigation strategy

Commitment of 120 million sq km for land-based carbon dioxide removal potentially conflicts with “30x30” target

November 2023 was warmest November on record globally, 1.75°C warmer than pre-industrial era: Copernicus

2023 officially warmest year in recorded history

Only 10 of 46 Least Developed Countries mention loss and damage explicitly in NDCs: Study

IIED urges countries to revise their NDCs before CoP27 and mention losses and damages

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

C for clean

Frequent fury: Cyclones now span larger part of the year than they used to

Mountain glaciers may hold less ice than previously thought — here’s what that means for 2 billion downstream water users and sea level rise

Policymakers should look at these new estimates to revise their plans

What is irrecoverable carbon? How it exacerbates global warming?

‘Climate change action could add $26 trillion to the global economy by 2030’

Recent report says that the only roadblock in the way is governments globally

Climate change to lower living standards of 50% Indians: World Bank

Most affected states will be Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Mumbai receives 438% excess rain in a single day

4 people die as the southwest monsoon brings torrential rain to the city

Africa and climate change: Exiled by emissions

The impacts of climate change are making the continent even more vulnerable

Why blaming conflicts in Africa on climate change is misguided

It is misguided to blame armed conflict and violence on climate change alone

800 stranded in Arunachal’s West Kameng after cloudburst

The cloudburst comes after a lean monsoon season in the state

Scientists find evidence cosmic rays influence Earth’s climate

The galactic cosmic rays also play a role in the global warming 

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