We cannot adapt indefinitely to the climate crisis – and as the planet continues to warm, our ability to adapt may reach new limits, for example in the form of conflict. That is one finding of a total of “10 New Insights in Climate Science,” presented by an international consortium of 65 researchers from 23 […]
Mr. Nobre, Lula promised to bring the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest down to zero. Will things now be all right for the climate?Lula has done a lot for the forest in the past. When he became president in 2003, Brazil had an exceedingly high rate of deforestation. Together with his then-environment minister Marina […]
The document holds political explosives for the UN General Assembly and the upcoming climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh. In his first report, Ian Fry, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the context of climate change, presents explosive demands that are highly controversial among UN states: among other things, the outlawing […]