Climate Change

Controversial credits bought by corporations to offset their carbon emissions will be in the spotlight at UN climate talks next month. These credits allow them to label everything from shampoo to air travel as “carbon neutral”. Carbon…
Read More...

Shifts in the rainfall pattern due to climate change have led to a rise in Delhi’s relative humidity, increasing discomfort even though there has been no significant change in the city’s ambient temperatures since 2011, according to a new…
Read More...

This year broke records in all the wrong ways. That’s the chilling conclusion of a special report on climate change published today in the journal Bioscience. “Life on planet Earth is under siege,” said William Ripple, a distinguished…
Read More...

If unchecked, climate change will significantly increase women's vulnerability to poverty and hunger, undermining hard-won development gains, according to a UN report. "Globally, by mid-century, under a worst-case climate scenario, climate…
Read More...

The COP28 Presidency launched the ‘COP28 Declaration on Climate and Health’ as part of its commitment to make health a central element of the climate agenda. The Presidency made the announcement at the World Health Summit in Berlin, where…
Read More...

The Ministry of Education, Abu Dhabi has joined forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to introduce the ‘Greening Capacities Initiative.’ This collaboration aims to achieve the goals outlined in the Green Education…
Read More...

Climate change by the turn of the Century could lead to global warming that could trigger heart attacks and heat strokes. In some of the most populated areas of the world, including India and the Indus valley, new research has predicted.…
Read More...

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels. Staying…
Read More...

This year is on track to become the hottest on record, with the global mean temperature to date this year 0.52° Celsius higher than average, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. Scientists have said climate change…
Read More...

Spain’s Energy Minister Teresa Ribera has warned that talks at the COP28 climate summit will be “challenging” as she opened a gathering of energy ministers and climate leaders from around the world in Madrid. Spain, which holds the…
Read More...