Climate Change

At least 53 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi hit the country on Sunday. The death toll is only expected to increase in various flood-related incidents.

As many as four million people in Somalia face the risk of starvation and the situation is only deteriorating as the country faced its third consecutive dry season, the United Nations' climate report has warned.

Terrestrial ecosystems worldwide have been a crucial ally as the world struggles to curb CO2 emissions.

There are 800 people in emergency accommodation in the state's Northern Rivers region alone

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered three mass bleaching events during heatwaves in 2016, 2017 and 2020

Global heating is virtually certain to pass 1.5C, probably within a decade

19,580 have been displaced and another 16,001 forced to seek shelter

Dozens of bus routes in and around the capital have been suspended along with train services to the port city of Klang.

The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said there was "no justification" for Moscow's veto.

Last month UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said an independent group would be established to monitor companies' net-zero progress.

Extinction Rebellion has caused chaos in at least 13 Amazon sites on Black Friday

The new legislation will create 145,000 new charging points per year and apply also to major renovation projects.

British Prime Minister Johnson called the 11th-hour deal "truly historic" and said it signaled "the beginning of the end for coal power".

Finance for adaptation is best seen as an investment in avoided costs, the IPCC report says.

A senior diplomat told AFP that "most of the net-zero pledges are void of content".

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex plan to be free of carbon footprint in their lives by 2030.

2021 emissions in the US and EU will drop 3.7 and 4.2 percent, respectively, and their share of global emissions will stand at 14 and 7 percent.

Biden has ramped up US climate action with promises to zero out carbon emissions by 2050

Biden said that fighting climate change will boost, not hurt economies.

Almost a quarter of all man-made emissions of carbon dioxide can be attributed to land use activity such as logging, deforestation and farming.

The G20 nations between them emit nearly 80 percent of carbon emissions

More than 120 heads of state and government will make the trip to Glasgow for the UN meeting

The UN says greenhouse gas emissions must be cut nearly in half by 2030 to keep 1.5C within reach.

Agriculture and livestock farming generate around 40 percent of the methane related to human activities

A decade-old target for rich countries to contribute $100 billion a year to help poorer ones fight climate change should be attainable in 2023

Economic planners are nervous about slashing coal too quickly as it could cripple growth.

Modi will go to the climate talks in Glasgow after attending the Group of 20 summit in Rome next weekend

The report also warned that nearly three quarters of countries surveyed said they believed they could not afford an integrated national health and climate strategy.

Climate experts gave only a cautious welcome, and campaigners said the moves did not go far enough.

The only way to bring Earth's average surface temperature back under the wire by 2100 is to suck some of it out of the air.