Climate Change
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Finance officials from the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) meeting in Riyadh on Sunday reached agreement on the wording of a final communique that includes a reference to climate change for the first time, G20 diplomatic sources said. Overcoming U.S. objections, the compromise language retained a reference to work by the Financial Stability Board to…
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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, has made the second largest charitable gift in recent history. The Amazon founder is giving $10 billion to a new initiative that will fund programs to combat the effects of climate change, he said in an Instagram post on Monday. The Bezos Earth Fund comes after years of criticism that the…
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Panellists at an academic conference told young Singaporeans to stay angry all the time. ‘Continue to keep your youthful idealism and keep “being angry productively” while facing social causes you have passion for,’ the influencers said. At the Singapore Perspectives 2020: Politics conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies on Monday (Jan 20), a…
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Inaction when it comes to the fight back against damaging climate change is not an option, the President of the UN General Assembly told a major energy conference in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Tijani Muhammad-Bande was addressing the International Organization for Renewable Energy High-Level meeting on the particular threat faced by Small Island Developing States, or SIDS, and their partners…
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Prince William has warned the world could lose “many of the precious things we care about” as a result of climate change. The 37-year-old royal and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, visited a melting glacier in Pakistan on Wednesday (16.10.19) as part of their tour of the country, and witnessed first hand the effect…
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Extinction Rebellion activists have blocked major roads in London and other cities across Europe at the beginning of what was billed as a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies. Activists in London say they expect the protests to be as much as five times bigger than those held in April, which brought major disruption…
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Police were nowhere around to stop the “madness” as climate change protesters launched bloody attack on the UK government building. In seeming retaliatory act, climate activists sprayed 400 gallons of fake blood on the British government building to highlight the damage humans are causing to the world, Mail Online confirmed. Out-of-commission fire engines were used…
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Millions of people are taking to the streets across the world in what could be the largest climate protest in history. Some of Friday’s first protests were held in Australia, where an estimated 300,000 people gathered at more than 100 rallies calling for action to guard against climate change, with further demonstrations held across parts…
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More than 300,000 people turned up on the streets of Australian cities on Friday in climate change rallies, the biggest protest seen in the country since the Iraq War. Organisers School Strike 4 Climate said in a statement 265,000 protesters turned out at demonstrations in seven Australian cities alone. The largest crowd was an estimated…
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Over 80% of Kenya’s land is made up of arid and semi-arid areas that are prone to frequent droughts and periodic floods. These events are on the rise while about 70% of all disasters in Kenya are now related to changing weather patterns. An increasing body of research links these changing weather patterns to climate change. For instance, a general warming and…
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It is unarguably true that global warming and climate change are results of damage inflicted on the environment by mankind in order to make our lives better. For instance, improvement in science and technology, specifically fumes from cars and other electromechanical equipment negatively affect the health level of air around us. However, the convenience and…
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CLIMATE change is a chronic challenge – it is here now, and will be with us throughout this century and beyond. As the US government’s National Climate Assessment report made clear, it’s already affecting people throughout the United States and around the world. Warmer temperatures are making heat waves more intense, with harmful effects on human health. More intense rainfall and higher…
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Nigeria has been in the grip of an intense heatwave over the past few weeks, with meteorologist saying there is no relief in sight until the seasonal rains set in next month. The extreme heat has been in place since March, with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) saying last week that the heatwave has been affecting most parts…
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Christians are really not doing enough on Climate Change. Black Friday turned into an indictment of carbon dioxide and a warning of dire consequences for the U.S. economy in a report from the Global Change Research Program, which affirmed government conclusions that there is “no convincing alternative explanation” for climate change than human activities, especially…
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When you’re done with this article, you may wish to ask Google if the general public has lost interest in biodiversity conservation or whether people are no longer interested in environmental issues which, you probably don’t know, has long been overshadowed by climate change alone. The answer to both questions, according to Google searches at…
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KERRY WASHINGTON “A lot of people are saying right now that actors shouldn’t express their opinions when it comes to politics. But the truth is, actors are activists, no matter what. We embody the worth and humanity of all people. This union really helps me to do that. I’m Kerry Washington and I am an actor.”…
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