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Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
Feb 9, 2016 · Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide trapped heat in …
Despite solar surge, world off track for COP28 renewable energy …
Nov 10, 2024 · The world is not yet doing enough to meet a goal to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 despite “record” growth last year, the first official review of the global commitment made at the COP28 climate summit has warned.
Strong laws should follow the new global climate commitments
Sep 26, 2024 · Pierre Cannet is global head of public affairs and policy at ClientEarth. The UN Summit of the Future that took place in New York over the weekend pitched strengthened diplomatic cooperation as the key to protecting the rights of present and future generations from environmental breakdown, amongst other issues.
US turns against plastic producers, boosting hopes for treaty
Aug 15, 2024 · A prop depicting a water tap with cascading plastic bottles is displayed by activists near the Shaw Centre venue of the penultimate negotiations for the first-ever global plastics treaty, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 23, 2024.
The Global South is surging ahead in the renewables revolution
Oct 16, 2024 · Vikram Singh is senior principal for the Global South with energy think-tank RMI. If you’d asked me a month ago who was deploying renewables faster – the Global South or the Global North – I would have thought it safe to say the Global North. But, in a new RMI report published this week, we ...
Japan backs fossil fuels in Southeast Asian “zero emission” initiative
Oct 7, 2024 · The alleged climate benefits of these technologies are hotly disputed. While some studies have claimed gas is a less polluting fossil fuel than the coal used for electricity in much of Southeast Asia, a study published last week suggested that it can actually be more polluting, especially when it is imported across the sea in a liquid form called LNG.
The team - Climate Home News
Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe
Aug 26, 2022 · In Europe, for example, the UK’s heatwave would have been almost impossible without current climate change, which has already warmed the planet by 1,2°C. After this event, drought was declared in large parts of the country. Along the same lines, Europe’s Global Drought Observatory stated in its August report that low precipitation levels combined with “a sequence of heatwaves from May ...
Mapping vulnerability: why the IPCC's geography of climate risk is ...
Oct 3, 2022 · The classification provides “a simplified bird view” of global vulnerability, said Jörn Birkmann, a coordinating lead author of the report, who researches climate vulnerability at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.