Climate Update

AUSWIRKUNGEN

A billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress if the climate crisis raises the global temperature by just 2C, according to research released by the UK Met Office at the Cop26 climate summit. The scientists said that would be a 15-fold increase on the numbers exposed today.

AUSWIRKUNGEN

A satellite, the size of a small truck, orbits the Earth’s exosphere taking precise readings of environmental and climatic variables, including fire.

URSACHEN

Aerial scenes from the Northern Amazon from the town of Iqitos to the Amazon oil town of Trompederos, Peru, June 11, 2007. Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images

URSACHEN

Luxusgüter wie Megayachten, Privatjets und private Raumfahrt sind Ausdruck der extremen Ungleichheit auf der Welt und gehen zudem mit einem extrem hohen Treibhausgas-Ausstoß einher. (Foto: Pexels/​Pixabay) Der britische Milliardär Richard Branson hat es getan, Amazon-Gründer Jeff Bezos auch.

URSACHEN

Global carbon emissions are shooting back to the record level seen before the coronavirus pandemic levels, new analysis has shown. Scientists said the finding is a “reality check” for the world’s nations gathered at the Cop26 climate summit.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

As an environmental officer in Samoa, Violet Wulf-Saena worked with the Lano and Saoluafata Indigenous peoples to restore coastline mangrove ecosystems that could slow incoming waves and protect communities from storm and flood damage.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

As week one of Cop26 draws to a close, governments are grappling with how to keep the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement alive. To do so they must find a way to credibly close the gap between projected emissions in 2030, and the level scientists say is needed.

MILDERUNG & ANPASS.

Off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, rare manatee calves have been spotted in the canals and rivers of Cispatá Bay’s mangrove forests. The once-critically endangered American crocodile is now seen more frequently.

POLITIK

POLITIK

Mindestens inoffiziell steht die diesjährige COP26 in Glasgow unter dem Motto „Net Zero“.

POLITIK

Die Schweiz ist laut einem internationalen Bericht effizient bei der Reduktion von Treibhausgasen. Trotzdem reicht es im Rating nur für Platz 15. Die Schweiz ist im internationalen Klimarating um einen Rang auf Platz 15 abgerutscht.

POLITIK

The Australian government’s policy response to the climate crisis is placed last in an assessment of 60 countries released at the global climate summit in Glasgow.

POLITIK

The protesters gathered in Glasgow for Cop26 are a diverse group – at the demonstration on Saturday I watched everybody file past – from international socialists to Scottish nationalists, healthcare workers to striking refuse workers, from indigenous activists at the very front to cycling enthus

POLITIK

The legitimacy of the Cop26 climate summit has been called into question by civil society participants who say restrictions on access to negotiations are unprecedented and unjust.

POLITIK

Humanity has made some — not enough, but some — progress in fighting global warming. This is an excerpt from the newsletter for The Weeds. To sign up for a weekly dive into policy and its effects on people, click here.

POLITIK

Auf dem Klimagipfel in Glasgow häufen sich nur so die Verpflichtungen, mit denen Staaten und Unternehmen auf eine Netto-Null bei den Treibhausgas-Emissionen zusteuern wollen.

POLITIK

With the world already 1.1C warmer than pre-industrial times, we know that climate change impacts are deeply felt in communities across the world and adapting to them is deeply important.

POLITIK

Four major economies have agreed to end their support for fossil fuel projects internationally in an announcement campaigners hailed as a “historic breakthrough”.

POLITIK

Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground. In some respects, preventing climate breakdown is highly complicated. But in another, it’s really simple: we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground.

POLITIK

The Scottish government has pledged £1 million ($1.4m) to support the victims of climate disaster, in a world first that representatives of vulnerable countries hope will inspire others to follow.

POLITIK

At the Cop26 summit in Glasgow, 104 countries have signed a commitment to reduce their methane emissions by 30% between 2020 and 2030.

TECH. & ENERGIE

People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of Indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps

TECH. & ENERGIE

The nation is at the heart of a string of announcements in Glasgow, UK to support developing countries in ditching the most polluting fossil fuel. After months of high-level political negotiations, France, Germany, the UK, the US and the EU announced an $8.

TECH. & ENERGIE

The climate emergency is the biggest threat to civilisation we have ever faced. But there is good news: we already have every tool we need to beat it. The challenge is not identifying the solutions, but rolling them out with great speed.

WIRTSCHAFT

About half of the world’s fossil fuel assets will be worthless by 2036 under a net zero transition, according to research.

BEWEGUNG

Nicht nur die Einhaltung der Klimaziele wurde bei der Klimademo in Glasgow zur Halbzeit der COP 26 gefordert ... Am Morgen des 6. November ist das Wetter richtig schottisch, wie man es sich vorstellt. Es ist nass, windig, kalt. Nicht so richtiges Demonstrationswetter.

RECHT

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC on November 5, 2021. Credit: Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images

ANTI-KLIMA

The scale of climate misinformation on Facebook is “staggering” and “increasing quite substantially”, a new analysis of hundreds of thousands of posts has found.