State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Global Warming
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Climate change and health: Preparing for the next disaster
This report looks into how a changing climate is harming Australians' health and argues that the health sector must do more to adapt to the reality of climate change. It focuses on the devastating bushfires
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A societal transformation scenario for staying below 1.5°C
To stop climate change, we have to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But can we still achieve this target? And if so, what pathways can society take in transiting towards a climate-just economy? One important
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Net zero cold chains for food
<p>The Carbon Trust has released a discussion paper outlining the challenge of reducing emissions from rapidly growing food cold chains and how philanthropy can help ‘bend the curve’ while
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Agricultural Finance for Climate Resilience
<p>This white paper summarizes how segments of U.S. agricultural and agribusiness finance could modify their policies and financial products to adapt to climate change in their own operations. Making agriculture
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Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report: Benefits of cooling efficiency and the Kigali Amendment
<p>The world will need more than 10 billion new cooling appliances by 2050, according to a recent estimate. That would take the total up to around 14 billion such machines in a warming world. An estimated
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Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update
<p>WMO released new climate predictions on global temperatures in the next five years.The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1° Celsius above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900)
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Building a Paris Agreement Compatible (PAC) energy scenario
<p>The Paris Agreement Compatible (PAC) scenario illustrates a pathway for the transition of the EU’s energy system that is in line with EU leaders’ commitment to the Paris Agreement. A new
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More frequent summer heat waves in southwestern China linked to the recent declining of Arctic sea ice
<p>Southwestern China (SWC) has suffered from increasing frequency of heat wave (HW) in recent summers. While the local drought-HW connection is one obvious mechanism for this change, remote controls remain
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Milking the Planet: How big dairy is heating up the planet and hollowing rural communities
<p>Thirteen of the world’s largest dairy corporations combined to emit more greenhouse gases (GHGs) in 2017 than major polluters BHP, the Australia-based mining, oil and gas giant or ConocoPhillips,
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Overview Of The ICAT Series Of Assessment Guides
<p>The unprecedented challenge of climate change requires rapid and deep transformations – in virtually all sectors and all parts of society – away from the prevailing carbon-intensive, high-emission