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The Sunnylands Statement sets a positive signal: World leaders gathered for COP28 must build off of it

In a politically turbulent world, it is rare to witness major global actors set aside their disagreements to address the existential threats posed by climate change. On Nov. 14, the United States and China did just this by issuing the Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis.

The Conversation

Climate tipping points are nearer than you think – our new report warns of catastrophic risk

It’s now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year ever recorded by humans, probably the warmest for at least 125,000 years.

The Conversation

Why dimming the Sun would be an effective tool in the fight against climate change

It’s becoming increasingly clear that we will fail to meet our climate goals. We were already at 1.26°C of warming in 2022 and are on track to blow through 1.5°C in the mid-2030s. Research even suggests that current climate policy will lead to more than 2.5°C of warming by the…

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Dutch plans to tackle climate change are in doubt after the election victory of a far-right party

The outgoing Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, told delegates at the COP28 United Nations climate conference his country is “committed to accelerating our efforts” to tackle climate change

The Independent UK

November is sixth straight month to set a heat record, scientists say

'The last half year has truly been shocking,' one climate change expert said

Evening Standard

‘All in same canoe’: What’s it like being young on a sinking small island?

Youth activist Litokne Kabua outlines the perils facing the low-lying Marshall Islands as the seas swell and tides rise.

Al Jazeera

Trump repeatedly denies climate science and says ‘we shouldn’t be worried about global warming’

Trump has previously also called climate change ‘nonexistent’ and ‘make-believe problem’

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Taxpayers to stop funding global fossil fuel projects

Public money will not be used to pay for international climate polluting projects after the Australian government signed on to the Glasgow statement at COP28.

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Scientists say November is 6th straight month to set heat record; 2023 a cinch as hottest year

The European climate agency calculates that for the sixth month in a row, Earth set a new monthly record for heat, and also added the hottest autumn to the litany of record-breaking heat this year

The Independent UK

The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer

In February 2000, Paul Crutzen rose to speak at the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Mexico. And when he spoke, people took notice. He was then one of the world’s most cited scientists, a Nobel laureate working on huge-scale problems – the ozone hole, the effects of a nuclear winter.

The Conversation

Climate Change By Numbers

As countries try to hammer out a response to climate change at the COP28 talks in Dubai, here are some key figures about how fossil fuels have warmed our world.

International Business Times

Cop28: Space agencies to showcase new technologies to battle climate change

Space technologies will feature prominently at this year’s Cop28 summit in Dubai, with space agencies showcasing different applications in the field of Earth science and observations.

Radio France Internationale

How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant crab claw is disrupting the Northeast's Great Marsh ecosystem

Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn’t supposed to be…

The Conversation

Is Israel’s Gaza bombing also a war on the climate?

Gaza’s water, soil and air have been devastated. And reconstruction will add to the carbon emissions.

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Cop28: anger after record number of fossil fuel lobbyists given access to summit – as it happened

Coalition of climate NGOs highlights that there are more fossil fuel lobbyists than delegates from 10 most climate-vulnerable countries combined

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COP28’s Oil Exec President Backtracks Saying There’s ‘No Science’ To Phasing-Out Fossil Fuels

The president of this year’s United Nations Conference Of The Parties on Climate Change (COP28), Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber has claimed that there is “no science” to prove that using less fossil fuels will help battle climate change. Sounds like someone’s been doing their own research. Hundreds of world politicians have…

The Independent UK

UN agency cites worrying warming trend as COP28 summit grapples with curbing climate change

The U.N. weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change

The Independent UK

Lebanon's Christians feel the heat of climate change in its sacred forest and valley

For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters

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International Business Times UK

Extreme Weather Poses Global Threat to Hospitals

Public health experts stress that the potential closure of hospitals due to extreme weather events goes beyond immediate health concerns.

International Business Times UK

UK Announce Climate Aid At COP28 After Second Earthquake Rocks The Philippines

After a violent earthquake rocked the Philippines for the second time in two weeks, Sunak announced that the UK will be providing countries vulnerable to climate change with funding.

LiveScience

Breach of key global warming threshold 'inevitable' as carbon emissions hit record high

At the current emissions level, there is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius consistently in about seven years, new research suggests.

The Conversation

What happens after net zero? The impacts will play out for decades, with poorest countries still feeling the heat

Humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming at a rate unprecedented in at least the past 2,000 years. Rapid global warming has been accompanied by increases in the frequency and intensity of heat extremes over most land regions in the past 70 years.

The Independent UK

Fossil fuels influence and other takeaways from Monday's climate conference events

The influence of fossil fuels was a focal point Monday at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28

Fortune

Bill Gates’ nuclear reactor company signs a clean energy deal with the UAE, as nuclear power takes center stage at COP28

Gates’ nuclear reactor company signed a memorandum of understanding with the UAE’s state-backed nuclear power company.

Salon

Important innovations discussed at COP28

It's necessary to make changes to combat climate change, minimize food insecurity and bolster agriculture

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