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A critical step in addressing the climate crisis comes in the form of climate finance that enables climate action in the form of adaptation and mitigation efforts. At the recently concluded UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), it was…
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The fourth meeting of the Transitional Committee on Loss and Damage Fund ended without a clear consensus on operationalising the fund last week, exposing a deep trust deficit among rich and emerging economies over historic responsibility,…
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The Paris Agreement (PA) had mandated a periodic five-yearly cycle of assessments of climate action called the Global Stocktake (GST) starting in 2023. GST is a process involving both country Parties i.e. governments, as well as non-party…
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विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने शुक्रवार को कहा कि वे बड़ी संख्या में म्यूटेशन वाले कोविड-19 का एक नया वेरिएंट मिलने के बाद उसकी स्टडी कर रहे हैं. संयुक्त राष्ट्र स्वास्थ्य एजेंसी ने बताया कि अभी बहुत कम देशों जैसे कि इजराइल, डेनमार्क…
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Apocalyptic images of wildfire devastation – from charred homes to cities shrouded in deadly smoke – are fast coming to embody the world's unfolding climate disaster. In Hawaii this August, the death toll is still rising after the…
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in its Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update (Target years: 2023-2027), claims that there is a 66% chance that the annual average near-surface temperature will breach the 1.5°C limit for at…
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It was a smell that invoked a memory. Both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire world. Kuchlbauer had flashbacks to the…
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The World Health Organization said Thursday it was sure that China had far more data that could shed light on the origins of Covid, demanding that Beijing immediately share all relevant information. "Without full access to the information…
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Are the Conference of Party (COP) meetings losing steam and if so, what might be done to advance the climate agenda? COP26 in Glasgow and more recently, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, underline decarbonization’s political challenges. It…
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As COP27 gets underway, our planet is sending a distress signal. The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle of climate chaos. As the World Meteorological Organization shows so clearly, change is happening with…
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