Sun 31 October 2021: On Sunday, Pope Francis urged people to pray so that “the cry of the Earth” is heard at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. Addressing worshippers in St Peter’s Square, the pontiff said he hoped the crucial conference can offer “effective answers” for future generations. “Today in Glasgow, in Scotland, […]
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Sat 30 October 2021: On Saturday, tens of thousands of climate activists and anti-G-20 protesters marched through Rome’s streets, criticizing the world’s biggest economies’ lack of action on climate change. This weekend, Italy will host the Group of 20 – a group of the world’s most powerful economies – ahead of the UN climate change […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: According to the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), each European Union (EU) resident produced an average of 76 lbs of plastic packaging waste in 2019, with 31 lbs being recycled. In 2019, the EU recycled 41% of plastic packaging waste. Nine EU Member States reprocessed more than half of the produced plastic […]
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Tue 26 October 2021: Coal-rich Australia presented a long-awaited net-zero emissions plan for 2050 on Tuesday, but refrained from establishing more extreme targets ahead of a key UN climate summit. Australia is one of the world’s largest coal and gas exporters, and its conservative government has fought climate action for the majority of its eight-year […]
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Sun 24 October 2021: United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said the world’s current climate situation is “a one-way ticket for disaster”, reiterating the urgency of agreement at the COP26 climate conference at the end of the month. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, struck at the COP21 summit, called for global warming to […]
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Sat 23 October 2021: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched the Green Initiative summit on Saturday, investing 700 billion riyals ($186.9 billion) to address climate change concerns. Bin Salman stated in a televised speech that the Saudi Green Initiative seeks to reduce carbon emissions by 278 million tons per year by 2060, achieving net […]
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Fri 22 October 2021: Several OECD nations including Britain, Japan and the United States have agreed to halt government-supported export credits for coal-fired power plants. With the latest international climate conference just days away, the proposed ban will halt support to new coal power stations that don’t have systems that trap the carbon emissions responsible […]
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Fri 22 October 2021: US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, will travel to Saudi Arabia next week for meetings with government counterparts and business leaders on efforts to address the climate crisis, the State Department said on Thursday, Reuters reports. Kerry will visit Riyadh on 24 and 25 October before the UN climate change convention […]
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Fri 22 October 2021: A new report by the United Nations has warned that more than 100 million “extremely poor” people across Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change that could also melt away the continent’s few glaciers within two decades. The report released on Tuesday by the World Meteorological Organization presented a grim reminder […]
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Thu 21 October 2021: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Thursday that a new Pentagon assessment reveals that climate change is a “existential threat” to the United States and the world, and that it is transforming the global strategic environment in which American armed forces have to operate. “As the Department of Defense Climate […]
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