As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. While its effects, such as unprecedented flooding, devastating droughts, storm surges, biodiversity loss and more intense hurricanes appear novel in the eyes…
Paiporta, one of the hardest-hit towns in Spain’s Valencia floods, is grappling with devastation, more than 200 deaths, and rising public anger. Accusations of political negligence have led to protests and demands for accountability from regional leader Carlos Mazon, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, and even the monarchy. In this episode,…
Negotiators from small island states and the least-developed nations have walked out of negotiations during overtime United Nations climate talks, saying their climate finance interests were being ignored. Nerves frayed on Saturday as negotiators from rich and poor nations huddled in a room at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan to try…
The world is facing a climate crisis, and few nations are feeling its impact more acutely than Afghanistan. It is currently ranked seventh on the Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index of countries most vulnerable and least prepared to adapt to climate change. Afghanistan’s population is caught in a vicious cycle…
State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says. Ecuador has declared a 60-day state of emergency as the South American country has been hit by a severe drought and record wildfires that have razed large swaths of territory over…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has opened the Group of 20 Summit in Brazil by unveiling a global alliance aimed at tackling poverty and hunger. In his opening speech on Monday, Lula emphasised that these challenges stem from political choices. He also highlighted the widespread impact of climate…
In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. He dreams of a better future where there is respect for nature, equality and peace. Unfortunately, 2025 is coming up and we are nowhere near fulfilling Galeano’s dream. In fact,…
Schools go online until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the Indian capital’s health crisis. Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. A…
United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon rainforest, declaring that nobody can reverse “the clean energy revolution that’s under way in America”. His comments come even as the incoming administration of President-elect…
At COP29, Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus addresses climate crisis and national healing after political upheaval. At the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh, addresses national and global challenges. Following the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
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