Young Black Activists Remaking the Climate Movement
In the US, you don’t have to look hard to see environmental racism and climate injustice in action. On the environmental front, race is the number one predictor of exposure to pollutants — even more so than income. After all, people of color are much more likely than White Americans to live near polluting facilities […]
The Appalachian Advocate — Issue 138
TCFD ASAP: Inside the fast-evolving world of TCFD reporting
The financial sector’s seemingly sudden embrace of enhanced climate risk disclosures may have taken many by surprise, but the trend has actually been years in the making. Many of the sustainable investment bodies that have led calls for more sophisticated reporting on climate-related risks have been making their case for over a decade, while the […]
Africa: Successful Crop Innovation Is Mitigating Climate Crisis Impact
[IPS] Ibadan and Mexico City — African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate change: 2020 was the second hottest year on record, while prolonged droughts and explosive floods are directly threatening the livelihoods of millions. By the 2030s, lack of rainfall and rising temperatures could render 40 percent of Africa’s maize-growing […]
Guest post: Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save millions of lives by 2040
On World Health Day in 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that “protecting human health is the ‘bottom line’ of climate change strategies”. The WHO went on to describe climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”. This is because – through its effects on food security, heatwaves, floods, storms, […]
Exploring future global change-induced water imbalances in the Central Rift Valley Basin, Ethiopia
Abstract Lake Ziway, the only freshwater lake in Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley basin, has been the source for irrigation, floriculture, fish farming and domestic water supply in the region for the last few decades. This study examined the impacts of the planned future agricultural developments and climate change on the lake water balance by an […]
Who is the 22-year-old climate activist arrested in India for supporting the farmer protests?
2018 was the year when Greta Thunberg took the world by storm. The Swedish climate change activist, then 15 years old, started Fridays for Future, which calls itself as “a global people’s movement for climate justice.” In India, Disha Ravi, a college student at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, plunged in. She started Fridays for Future […]
Adherence to health precautions, not climate, the biggest factor driving wintertime COVID-19 outbreaks
Wintertime outbreaks of COVID-19 have been largely driven by whether people adhere to control measures such as mask wearing and social distancing, according to a study published Feb. 8 in Nature Communications by Princeton University researchers. Climate and population immunity are playing smaller roles during the current pandemic phase of the virus, the researchers found. The researchers […]
Agenda 2021: Prospects for Climate Security and Other Strategic Risks at the UN Security Council
By Evan Barnard, Center for Climate and Security intern, with contributions from Andrea Rezzonico and William Beaver The 2021 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) agenda promises to take on a range of issues central to the Council on Strategic Risks mission. This blog post provides recommendations for action by the UNSC, as well as an […]
Africa: UNFPA Elevates Climate Action to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Women and Girls
[UNFPA] Johannesburg, South Africa — The impact of climate change is already being felt and is projected to intensify significantly over the next 10 years. During the Nairobi Summit in Kenya in 2019, a signature session on climate change adaptation and justice focused on the centrality of solutions driven by and aimed at safeguarding the […]
