COP25 Kicks Off with Calls to Make Serious Progress on Climate Action.
UN Climate Change News, 2 December 2019 - The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (to 13 December) kicked off today, with urgent calls to make serious progress on climate action over the next two weeks.
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Is the world ready to end the coal era and embrace clean energy?
Access to electricity has transformed the world, helping countries to develop their economies, and lifting millions out of poverty.
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COP25: Madrid Climate Change Conference.
The Madrid Climate Change Conference - COP 25 - will bring the world together to consider ways to strengthen the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Ta
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Scientists Warning: Dr. James Hansen - Global Climate Emergency.
Who: James Hansen is widely regarded as the father of climate change awareness and was the Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for
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Coal power becoming 'uninsurable' as firms refuse cover.
US insurers join retreat from European insurers meaning coal projects cannot be built or operated.
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I study collapsed civilizations. Here’s my advice for a climate change apocalypse.
I am an archaeologist and a wilderness survival instructor. Because I study societies that have collapsed, and since I teach basic outdoor skills, people ask me about what to do in a natural disaster, social upheaval, or some apocalyptic event.
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Boris Johnson urged to challenge Trump on climate denial.
350 experts call on PM to address president’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’ claims.
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COP25: youth ‘leadership’ contrasts with government inaction, says UN chief.
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, contrasted the “leadership” and “mobilisation” shown by the world’s youth on the climate emergency with the lack of action by governments, which were failing to keep up with the urgency of the problem despite increasing signs that the climat
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WMO highlights severe impacts after ‘decade of exceptional global heat’.
The World Meteorological Organisation reveals that 2019 has been one of the hottest years on record. The WMO report has warned that we have had a ‘decade of exceptional heat’ with 2019 on course to be the second or third warmest year on record.
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Floods predicted to uproot 50 mln people a year as climate heats up.
MADRID - The number of people at risk of being forced from their homes by river flooding could surge to as many as 50 million a year by the end of the century if governments do not step up action to tackle climate change, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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Why the floods in East Africa are so bad.
Rain-triggered disasters, including flash floods and landslides, have killed at least 250 people and affected some three million people across East Africa in recent weeks, with about half of the deaths occurring in Kenya.
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Africa’s Civil Society Calls for Action as COP25 Kicks off in Madrid.
MADRID - During the 25th round of climate change negotiations starting today in Madrid, Spain, African civil society organisations will call on governments from both developing and developed nations to play their promised roles in combating climate change.
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Africa looks on in frustration as COP 25 opens in Madrid.
Punctuating the climate change summit in Madrid, heavy rains continue to pound east and central Africa causing deadly flooding and landslides. Activists fear the conference known as COP25 will proceed more talks followed by delay and prevarication.
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EU turns to methane emissions in fight against global warming.
The European Commission is working on a first-ever methane strategy that could play a “very significant role” in enabling the EU increase its climate ambitions for 2030, EU officials have said.
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Green Economy 'Not to Be Feared, but an Opportunity to Be Embraced' Says UN Chief As COP25 Gets Underway.
Madrid — A green economy is "not one to be feared but an opportunity to be embraced", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, in a keynote speech to delegates at the opening of the COP25 UN climate conference in Madrid on Monday.
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The Downside of Solar Energy.
As renewable energy expands, used photovoltaic panels are creating a growing waste problem—but recycling could be the answer.
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Climate: We have run out of time.
Climate action must happen now — there are no second chances For the next week or so, delegates from nations around the world will gather in Madrid for a critical set of meetings on our planet’s future.
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Ireland launches auction scheme for renewables.
Solar is included among the competing sources, but with a quota of only 10%. About 12,500 GWh will be allocated across five rounds under the new scheme, which is still subject to EU state aid approval.
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Why Power-to-Gas May Flourish in a Renewables-Heavy World.
While still in its infancy, power-to-gas provides a promising approach to convert renewable power into “green” hydrogen and methane, furnishing the renewables sector with a potentially lucrative array of end-uses.
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Dutch firm plans to deliver off-grid power to one million Nigerian homes.
Lumos has already fitted more than 100,000 solar home systems in the populous African nation
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