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15.09.2020 - Trump and Biden clash over U.S. wildfires as campaign turns to climate change
Joe Biden branded President Donald Trump a "climate arsonist" on Monday for refusing to acknowledge global warming's role in deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, while Trump blamed lax forestry and declared, "I don't think science knows."
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15.09.2020 - Funds and firms call for tougher 2030 EU climate target
Investors managing trillions in assets and more than 120 business leaders called on the European Union to commit to cut emissions by at least 55% by 2030 on Tuesday, saying anything less would fail to unlock the private financing needed.
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15.09.2020 - Wildfire smoke causes record pollution in Oregon, wafts as far as Washington, D.C.
Air quality in five major cities in Oregon was the worst on record as the state continues to be blanketed by thick smoke from wildfires ravaging nearly 5 million acres in the U.S. West, environmental officials in the heavily forested state said.
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14.09.2020 - Hit by COVID and climate change, island states battle debt crisis
As the coronavirus pandemic compounds worsening economic pressures from climate change impacts, small island developing nations on Monday appealed for international financial support to help them avert a looming debt crisis.
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10.09.2020 - Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report
Animal populations have plunged an average of 68% since 1970, as humanity pushes the planet’s life support systems to the edge
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31.08.2020 - How helpful is the term 'climate refugee'?
Politicians warn the climate crisis will lead to more people migrating. But experts say this framing of the issue risks being misleading and dangerous.
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22.08.2020 - Climate fund for poor nations vows to drive green COVID recovery
Green Climate Fund backs host of new projects including strengthening buildings to withstand hurricanes in Caribbean.
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20.08.2020 - Greenland's ice sheet saw record mass loss in 2019, study finds
Greenland lost 532 gigatons of ice - equivalent to about 66 tons of ice for each person on Earth - in 2019.
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19.08.2020 - After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial
n Thursday 20 August, it will be exactly two years since the first school strike for the climate took place. Looking back, a lot has happened. Many millions have taken to the streets to join the decades-long fight for climate and environmental justice. And on 28 November 2019, the European parliament declared a “climate and environmental emergency”.
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18.08.2020 - Cleaner but not clean: Why scientists say natural gas won't avert climate disaster
Natural gas emerges as one of the biggest drivers of climate change, scientists say.
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