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WEBUK calls for “ambition” on COP29 climate finance goal but won’t talk numbers 17 September 2024. News The UK’s new foreign minister, David Lammy, says Global North rhetoric on climate action must be matched by funding but stays silent on the size of a …
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
WEBFeb 9, 2016 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
The team - Climate Home News
WEBMegan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
What does pastoralism have to do with climate change?
WEBJul 19, 2021 · Injecting new effort into sustainable practices. The pastoralist way of life offers a real route to climate change adaptation and resilience for the communities that practice it: livestock are an asset that helps families manage the shocks and stresses of extreme weather and climate. New research projects are looking at how support to these ...
UK Supreme Court hears climate case on Heathrow airport …
WEBAug 10, 2020 · Heathrow appeared in front of the UK Supreme Court this week in a bid to overturn a judgment that blocked Europe’s busiest airport from expanding. In February, campaigners claimed a historic victory in the Court of Appeal, which quashed plans for a third runway at Heathrow on climate grounds. The …
Nigeria to end gas flaring by 2030, under national climate plan
WEBAug 13, 2021 · The Nigerian government has pledged to end the burning of gas as a by-product of oil production by 2030, under its latest climate plan submitted to the UN. Fossil fuel companies’ gas flaring account for a huge part of Nigeria’s emissions. At 75 million tonnes of Co2 equivalent a year, they outstrip the emissions from all 200 million ...
The UN can set a new course on “critical” transition minerals
WEBAug 20, 2024 · According to the World Bank, the extraction of 3 billion tons of minerals over the next 30 years is crucial to powering the global energy transition. The International Energy Agency further predicts a four-fold increase in mineral extraction by 2040 to meet climate targets. However, the rush for these so-called “critical” minerals risks ...
Indian lawmaker submits private bill to achieve net zero emissions …
WEBMar 18, 2021 · An Indian lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party has submitted a private member’s bill to parliament for India to commit to net zero emissions by 2050. Jayant Sinha, a lawmaker representing the coal producing Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand, north east India, submitted the bill to the Lok Sabha, parliament’s lower ...
UAE sets net zero by 2050 target, promises renewable investments
WEBJul 10, 2021 · Maktoum pledged to invest 600bn dirhams ($163 billion) in “clean and renewable” energy until 2050. That works out at around 21bn dirhams ($6bn) a year. The UAE previously committed to reduce its emissions 23.5% by 2030, compared to a business-as-usual baseline and to get 50% of its electricity from renewables and nuclear by 2050.