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AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalFinance & InvestmentInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySolar
Vietnam Solar Capacity Grows 100-Fold Since 2019
Solar uptake in Vietnam has reached eye-blinking speed, with a 100-fold increase in generation just since 2019. -
AsiaClimate Impacts & AdaptationEuropeHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJurisdictionsMiddle EastSevere Storms & FloodingSouth & Central AmericaUnited States
Climate Change Causes 37% of Heat Wave Deaths, New Research Shows
Climate change due to human activity was responsible for about 11 million heat wave deaths between 1991 and 2018, and boosted the damage from ... -
AfricaAsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & EfficiencyEncoreFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergySolar
More Than One Billion Lack Access to Cooling, Risk Illness and Heat Stress
As the pandemic drives up poverty rates, a lack of access to cooling technology has now put more than a billion people at increased ... -
AsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationInternational Agencies & StudiesInternational Security & WarJurisdictionsMiddle EastSevere Storms & Flooding
Climate Disasters in 2020 Displace Three Times More People than War
Some 30 million people around the world were displaced last year by floods, severe storms, and wildfires, making climate change the cause of three ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalFinance & InvestmentJurisdictionsMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail Transport
Asian Development Bank Ends Financing for Coal Mines, Power Plants
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning to stop financing coal mines and power plants and curtail its funding for oil and gas production, ... -
AfricaAsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & EfficiencyFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureInternationalInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryRenewable EnergySolar
More Than One Billion Lack Access to Cooling, Risk Illness and Heat Stress
As the pandemic drives up poverty rates, a lack of access to cooling technology has now put more than a billion people at increased ... -
AsiaBrazilChinaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentForests & DeforestationInsurance & LiabilityInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySupply Chains & Consumption
Chinese Banks Rank Second as Financiers for Tropical Deforestation
China now ranks second in the world as a financier of industries linked to tropical deforestation—and a new report shows the country’s banks hold ... -
AsiaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyNuclearOil & Gas
10 Years After Fukushima, Japan Finally Begins Push for Renewables
A decade after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, an entrenched reluctance to embrace renewable energy—fostered in part by utilities anxious to maintain their dominance—may ... -
AsiaCitiesClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & DistributionEuropeFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsSevere Storms & Flooding
Cuts to UK Global Resilience Funding Undermine Cities’ Response to Fire, Floods
The UK’s decision to gut the budget for a key global disaster resilience research hub is putting millions of poor and vulnerable city-dwellers in ... -
AsiaAustraliaBrazilCanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsChinaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEuropeFinance & InvestmentForests & DeforestationHydrogenIndiaJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
Some Countries Commit, Others Deflect as White House Pushes for Faster Carbon Cuts
The Biden-Harris Leaders’ Summit on Climate was scheduled to open with statements from leaders of more than two dozen countries, in what the White ... -
AsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityIndiaJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural Sequestration
Small Temperature Shifts Can Drive ‘Chaotic’ Changes to South Asian Monsoon
As the world warms, monsoon changes are set to cause havoc across a huge and densely populated swathe of the planet, with the great ... -
AfricaArctic & AntarcticaAsiaAustraliaBrazilCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsEuropeFood SecurityIce Loss & Sea Level RiseIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsOceansSevere Storms & FloodingSouth & Central AmericaUnited States
Over 50 Million People ‘Doubly Hit’ by Pandemic, Climate Disasters: WMO
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic had no effect on the “relentless” increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases, but made the impacts of the ... -
AsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationForests & DeforestationHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
70 Missing, 150 Dead as Cyclone Seroja Hits Indonesia, East Timor
Catastrophic landslides driven by climate change and deforestation have killed at least 150 and displaced thousands after Tropical Cyclone Seroja hammered remote islands in ... -
AfricaAsiaBiodiversity & HabitatCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEuropeForests & DeforestationInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySoil & Natural SequestrationUnited States
Global Forest Loss Accelerates Despite Pandemic Restrictions
Two recent studies are offering new evidence that the carbon-sequestering forests required to hold average global warming to 1.5°C are in peril. -
AsiaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyInternational Agencies & StudiesJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryPetrochemicals & PlasticsUnited States
Planned Plastics Plant in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Fails to Pass Economic Muster
Yet another behemoth plastics complex planned for Louisiana’s infamous “Cancer Alley” is running into headwinds as a new report declares it economically unviable and ...
