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08.12.2023 -

As climate disasters grow, early warning systems become essential
The more the world waits to cut carbon emissions, the greater the price on people and planet. This simple fact is borne out by the huge increase in the number of climate-related disasters over the past two decades.
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08.12.2023 -

The legal battles changing the course of climate change
Governments, fossil fuel firms and airlines are increasingly being met with climate lawsuits. Isabella Kaminski analyses what difference this legal action is making, and how much it is helping fight climate change.
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08.12.2023 -

How Much Can Forests Fight Climate Change? A Sensor in Space Has Answers.
A new NASA program is helping researchers more accurately calculate how much planet-warming carbon protected areas are storing. It’s a lot.
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07.12.2023 - Ministers agree petroleum industry must develop CO2 storage sites
Governments agree oil and gas firms must deploy permanent CO2 storage facilities at an unprecedented scale, but the industry argues it is pointless without also building up carbon capture and transport infrastructure, while NGOs fear the plans distract from the need to cut emissions at source.
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06.12.2023 - Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn
Humanity faces ‘devastating domino effects’ including mass displacement and financial ruin as planet warms
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06.12.2023 - 2023 declared hottest year on record as UN slams climate inaction
Europe’s climate monitor has declared that 2023 will be the hottest year on record, as a United Nations official used the COP28 climate summit to slam inaction.
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06.12.2023 - Climate change is causing death and destruction — climate action is our only hope for survival
Climate action is, and will, stand as a priority for our work in Europe and Central Asia now and in the years to come, through united action for better health, WHO Europe's Hans Henri P. Kluge writes.
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05.12.2023 - ‘No climate justice without peace’: Gaza becomes flashpoint for climate activists
Many in the global movement are divided on whether or how to take a stand on the conflict
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02.12.2023 - Rich countries need to ‘step up’ funding for adaptation as climate risks grow, warns UN report
The world is facing an ‘adaptation emergency’. How can world leaders fill the growing gap at COP28?
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02.12.2023 - Five grassroots climate justice movements COP28 could learn from
From kings to presidents, CEOs to non-profit bosses, many of the world’s most influential individuals have gathered in Dubai for COP28, the latest edition of the annual United Nations climate conference.
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