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WMO Confirms 2016 as Hottest Year on Record, about 1.1°C above Pre-Industrial Era
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday announced that the year 2016 has been the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, according to a consolidated analysis. The globally averaged temperature in 2016 was about 1.1°C higher…
China: ‘All Parties Must Stick to Paris Agreement’
Chinese premier Xi Jinping has urged world leaders not to abandon the historic Paris climate change agreement in a high profile speech today to the World Economic Forum in Davos. In an address that stressed the importance of world trade…
The World Economic Forum Focus on Climate Change
The World Economic Forum is devoting 15 sessions of its 2017 annual meeting to climate change, and nine more to clean energy – the most ever on the issues. It reflects how much is at stake. For global business leaders,…
Climate Change: 90% of Rural Australians Say their Lives are Already Affected
Ninety per cent of people living in rural and regional Australia believe they are already experiencing the impacts of climate change and 46% believe coal-fired power stations should be phased out, according to a new study. A poll of 2,000…
GIZ in Germany Is Climate Nutral
For the first time, the greenhouse gas emissions of the company’s operations in Germany have been offset through a GIZ self-initiated climate change mitigation project. As a federally-owned enterprise and service provider for sustainable development, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale…
Climate Change Will Lead to Annual Coral Bleaching, UN-Supported Study Predicts
If current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all of the world’s coral reefs will suffer severe bleaching – the gravest threat to one of the Earth’s most important ecosystems – on annual basis,…
Paris Boosts Cycling Infrastructure, Names 2017 ‘Year of the Bike’
Paris plans a major boost to its cycling infrastructure and will ban cars from outside the Louvre museum as it steps up its fight against traffic pollution, the mayor said on Sunday. Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo announced a new two-way…