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Extreme weather is the “new norm”
From mountain tops to ocean depths, the summer of extremes continues. Heatwaves are baking large parts of the northern hemisphere, fuelling unprecedented wildfires and disrupting marine ecosystems. Floods have transformed desert landscapes....
Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS): Advancing Women in Meteorology and Hydrology
Women make up 49.7 per cent of the global population, yet they are often ignored, and their rights violated. The result is a world that excludes and marginalizes half the population of...
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN PLANNING AND ECOLOGY
Apart from the conventional challenge of making cities a better place to live, urban development today must also respond to the challenges created by climate change by adapting the physical space to...
GREEN SPACES IN CITY AREAS UNDER THREAT
Almost every piece of advertising, from cosmetics to vehicles, is imbued with green themes, while in reality, they could be found in traces. This trend is also present in spatial planning of...
Ground-breaking data platform plays key role in tackling acute food insecurity in food crises
Detailed, comprehensive and timely data is essential to address the impact of shocks such as, earthquakes or conflict on agricultural production and livelihoods in parts of the world affected by food crises.
Since...
Climate-related risks amplify the impact of traditional risk categories
The increasingly frequent materialization of physical and transition climate-related risks has led companies around the world to include climate-related risks in their risk management systems. Climate-related risks can intensify the effect of...
UN Urges Europe to Boost Environmental Ambition to Fight Planetary Crisis
Despite progress in certain areas, governments in the pan-European region must show far greater ambition in tackling climate change, protecting ecosystems and managing and tackling waste and pollution, stresses a new UN...
The World Must Halt Deforestation and Use Forests Sustainably, FAO Director-General says
The world must halt deforestation, plant trees to make the planet greener and restore productive capacities, and use forests and trees sustainably, QU Dongyu, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization...
What Role Can Young People Play in Tackling the Climate Crisis?
The impacts of the climate crisis are already widespread: from increased floods, droughts and wildfires to more devastating storms and temperature extremes.
Scientists estimate the world is experiencing a global temperature increase of...
Greenpeace: Our transport system is fuelling the multiple crises we’re facing
With extreme heat, floods and fires, the highest inflation in decades, unprecedented energy price-hikes, a looming energy shortfall and a war on European soil, the world feels like it’s at a crossroads....
Droughts are Getting Worse Around the World, Here’s Why and What Needs to be Done
The Po, Italy’s longest river, has been a vital transport hub throughout history helping the north of the country develop into an industrial powerhouse. But “the king of rivers” is now drying...
A New Declaration to Help Save our Oceans
Last week, world leaders adopted a landmark declaration at the United Nations’ Ocean Conference in Lisbon to scale up science-based and innovative actions and address the ocean emergency of habitat loss, ocean...
The Interlinked Threats Facing Lakes and Why we Need to Protect Them
Across the world, lakes fed by rivers, glacial melt, groundwater and rain have played an important role in human civilization and development. They contain 90 percent of the fresh water on the...
Celebrate World Ocean Day with the Blue Belt Programme
Covering over 70 per cent of the planet the Ocean has a major role in everyday life. It produces at least 50 per cent of the planet’s oxygen, is home to most...
Four Key Climate Change Indicators Break Records in 2021
Four key climate change indicators – greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification – set new records in 2021. This is yet another clear sign that human activities...
Berlin Pushes For a 60 Euros Minimum Price on EU Carbon Markets
Discounting allegations of speculation on the EU carbon market, Berlin is throwing its weight behind a minimum price of 60 euros per ton of CO2, saying it will ensure this through national...