Topic: Climate change
COP27: Big breakthrough but ultimately inadequate response to the climate crisis
Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland
For 30 years, developing nations have fought to establish an international fund to pay for the “loss and damage”...
Almost 200 nations are set to tackle climate change at COP27 in Egypt
Matt McDonald, The University of Queensland
In a crucial meeting for tackling the climate crisis, almost 200 countries will come together in Egypt at the...
Pakistan floods: what role did climate change play?
Ben Clarke, University of Oxford; Friederike Otto, Imperial College London, and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato
Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods...
UN declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right
With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right.
UN weather agency sounds alarm on extreme events in Antarctica
Scientists with the United Nations weather agency on Friday expressed fresh concern over the climate crisis following recent extreme events in Antarctica—an area they say...
2021 joins top 7 warmest years on record: UN weather agency
even warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
