Turkey, Greece and Italy wildfires – live: 8 dead as wildlife ravaged in ‘disaster areas’, fire hits Croatia
Latest developments from across Europe A heat wave across southern Europe, fed by hot air from North Africa, has triggered deadly blazes across the Mediterranean with the death toll rising to eight on Sunday.
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Climate crisis: Campaigners call for national flash flood alert system as extreme rain ‘puts millions at risk’
It is no longer just properties in water catchment areas that face danger, experts say - increasing rainfall means submersion can happen anywhere.
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China and India miss UN deadline to update emissions targets
China is the country with the world’s highest emissions, while India is third
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Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Over-reliance on tree-planting to offset carbon emissions could push food prices up 80% by 2050
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Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says
Leak of potent greenhouse gas is currently small but further research is urgently needed, say scientists
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Evolutionary ‘trap’ leading young sea turtles to ingest plastic, study says
Researchers find fragments in innards of species that have adapted to develop in open ocean, which has highly polluted areas
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From Numbers to Insights: How to Think about Economic-Climate Modelling
Climate-economy models are a powerful tool for providing insight into sensible climate policy choices and how they would impact our economy. As the EU announces stricter climate targets, there are an increasing number of modelling studies published attempting to do just so.
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Decarbonisation in the Central Asia and Caspian region: the third (final) of a series of workshops
On the 18th of May 2021, the PARIS REINFORCE project held its third and final virtual workshop focussing upon the Central Asian and Caspian region.
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European National Stakeholder Workshop Series: The case of Switzerland
The PARIS REINFORCE European stakeholder workshop series continued with Switzerland, on May 18, 2021.
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A workshop on the US Long-term strategy towards net zero
On 24th and 25th May 2021, the PARIS REINFORCE consortium helped to organise a virtual US workshop, in collaboration with key US partners: ClimateWorks, University of Maryland Center for Global Sustainability, Rocky Mountain Institute, World Resources Institute, and the Univ
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European National Stakeholder Workshop Series: The case of France
The PARIS REINFORCE project held a national stakeholder workshop in France, on May 26, 2021.
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Carbon Neutrality and the Belt & Road Initiative: the PARIS REINFORCE China Workshop
The PARIS REINFORCE China stakeholder workshop was held online on June 8, 2021. The workshop discussed China’s net zero emissions after its carbon neutrality goal, how to achieve it from policy to practice, and topics related to the energy system in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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European National Stakeholder Workshop Series: The case of the Netherlands
The Dutch climate policy and sectoral developments are characterised by a variety of divergent factors from the civil society-led court-cases obliging both the government and Shell to increase climate ambition, monetary and fiscal attention as captured by the Dutch Central Bank’s (DNB) first TCFD
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Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens during scorching heatwave
Residents north of Greek capital evacuated, while 42C heat forces Acropolis to reduce opening hours
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Anger in Turkey grows over government’s handling of wildfires.
Response of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party seen by many as out of touch as blazes rage for seventh day
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Residents evacuated and Greece forced to close Acropolis as fires rage close to Athens
Temperatures in parts of Athens have reached 42C with Greek authorities saying it is the most intense heatwave in more than 30 years.
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Russian Arctic losing billions of tons of ice due to climate change
As the climate continues to warm, significant ice loss in the Russian Arctic will have clear impacts for sea level rise’.
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We Can’t Beat the Climate Catastrophe
It’s not happening fast enough and it’s happening too fast We aren’t programmed to try to change the weather. Humans experience the euphemistic “climate change” disaster that is playing out before our eyes as, mostly, weather.
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Climate Chaos Has Arrived — This Is What it Looks Like
Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, today’s headlines were the predictions of fringe extremists. And yet, they’ve come true.
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Meeting Paris Agreement Goals Would Create 8 Million New Energy Jobs, Study Finds
One of the chief arguments against transitioning away from fossil fuels and towards a zero-carbon economy is that it would cost the world energy jobs.
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