Climate change

Climate Action in Africa is gaining momentum, but more is needed, a new report states. It makes a number of recommendations, including strengthening early warning systems and increasing transboundary cooperation, data…

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Improving animal health can help cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but more granular approaches to measuring progress are needed if countries are to include animal health data in their national climate commitments.

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The Petersberg Climate Dialogue focused on the preparation of the COP27 Climate Change Conference in Egypt. The participants discussed the national and international challenges that efforts to combat climate change face.

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Despite making huge expansion in its renewable energy sector, based on solar and wind, India's reliance on coal consumption and the government’s tendency to clear developmental projects with little regard for…

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Scientists from the University of Western Australia discovered how plants control the amount of carbon from photosynthesis that they store to build biomass using a metabolic channel. This is a relatively rare plant…

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The Bonn Climate Change Conference came to a close on 16 June after two weeks of intense work on important technical issues and preparing decisions for adoption at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm…

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The conservation and restoration of wetlands can help to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. The good news is that managing and restoring these ecosystems is working better and better.

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Far from turning the tide in terms of global warming, if anything, human activities since 2010 appear to have aggravated already alarming trends, according to a recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on…

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In 2010-2019, average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. However, without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors,…

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The Amazon rainforest is one of the potential tipping elements in the Earth’s climate system, and its ability to recover from perturbation has been decreasing for at least two decades, say researchers.

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