Climate change
Shell to appeal landmark Dutch climate judgement
The Hague District Court in late May ruled that the Anglo-Dutch fuel maker must reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 as it was contributing to the 'dire'...
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Barrier Reef outlook poor despite coral 'recovery': scientists
The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) said the corals were currently in a "recovery window" after a reprieve that followed a decade of harmful heat stress and cyclones. But such opportunities were becoming rarer due to the impact of climate change, the government agency, which has monitored the reef for 35 years, said in its annual report released Monday.
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German floods death toll rises to 133, 153 in Europe
Western Germany has suffered the most brutal impact of the deluge that also pummelled Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, leaving streets and homes submerged in muddy water and isolating entire communities.
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China steps up climate fight with emissions trading scheme
The scheme was launched with China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, seeking to take a global leadership role on the climate crisis in the lead up to a crucial UN summit in November.
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Yellen calls on G20 to step up climate action
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, also speaking in Venice, proposed a global minimum for the price of carbon.
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Be prepared: Climate experts call on drought-hit EC to be ready for rain
Parts of the province have been crippled by a prolonged drought which has the region's biggest metro, Nelson Mandela Bay, facing an unprecedented water crisis.
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Climate change link as New Zealand records warmest June on record
Daily temperatures averaged 10.6 Celsius (51.1 Fahrenheit) -- 1.9C above average despite a cold snap late in the month, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said.
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French court gives govt 9 months to boost climate change action
Ruling on a case brought by the northern coastal town of Grande-Synthe, the State Council said France was set to miss its target of reducing emissions by 40% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, unless it took corrective action.
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After COVID-19, could the next big killer be heatwaves?
Earlier climate models suggested it would take nearly another century of unabated carbon pollution to spawn heatwaves exceeding the absolute limit of human tolerance.
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Hunger, drought, disease: UN climate report reveals dire health threats
After a pandemic year that saw the world turned on its head, a forthcoming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), seen exclusively by AFP, offers a distressing vision of the decades to come: malnutrition, water insecurity, pestilence.
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IMF urges top polluters to adopt carbon price floor
The multilateral agency said that carbon pricing was now widely accepted as the most important policy tool to achieve the drastic emissions cuts required to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius by 2050.
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G7 leaders target one billion jabs and climate drive
The club of leading economies - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and United States - say a joint approach is the world's best chance for recovering from the global health crisis and tackling climate change.
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President Ramaphosa on Africa and climate change
President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke at the committee meeting of African heads of state and government on climate change. #ClimateChange #Ramaphosa
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Climate talks resume online as pressure to act grows
The talks, nominally hosted by the United Nations climate change programme in the German city of Bonn, will all be informal, meaning that no decisions will be taken during the three-week discussions.
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G7 to end state financing for coal power plants this year
Ahead of a leaders meeting in Britain next month, G7 countries' climate and environment ministers also reaffirmed their commitment to limit keep temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, following a two-day virtual meeting.
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Macron's climate referendum stalls as Senate waters down bill
The initiative to state in the constitution that France 'guarantees environmental protection and biological diversity, and combats climate change' originated in a citizen's body set up by Macron last year.
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Intervention 'could buy 20 years' for declining Great Barrier Reef
Climate change is causing marine heatwaves, more intense cyclones and flooding - all of which are damaging the health of the reef.
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Biden summit brings new hope on climate but hard path ahead
Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, told the summit that climate-warming emissions are on track for the second largest increase in history in 2021 amid the recovery from the COVID pandemic.
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Biden seeks to rally world on climate as summit momentum builds
Just three months into office, Biden will on Thursday and Friday welcome 40 leaders for a virtual Earth Day summit, heralding a US return to the climate frontlines amid mounting worries over the rapid heating of the planet.
