A scary video of sea foam engulfing the streets of a Spanish town due to a powerful storm is going viral. Froth covers streets of Spain Photo: Twitter/reuters A video of a town in Spain covered in frothy sea foam has gone viral on Twitter and it has left netizens questioning the alarming climate change […]
Source: CDANetwork All images courtesy of the IFRC “The next disaster will strike when the memory of the last one has been forgotten.” Thus reads the first line of Fiji’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy, which was formally launched in Suva late in December 2019. For the people of Fiji, the memory of Tropical Cyclone […]
Human-induced climate change promotes the conditions on which wildfires depend, increasing their likelihood – according to a review of research on global climate change and wildfire risk published today. In light of the Australian fires, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Met Office Hadley Centre, University of Exeter, Imperial College London, and CSIRO […]
The 10 years to the end of 2019 have been confirmed as the warmest decade on record by three global agencies. According to Nasa, Noaa and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850. The past five years were the […]
The absence of sea ice in the Arctic is closely connected to the melting of permafrost, according to a new study. Permafrost contains massive amounts of carbon which are likely to be released as […]
Source: The Indian Express Details of new carbon market postponed to next summit; after objections over draft agreement, final text lacks specifics The longest-ever climate conference delivered probably the weakest outcome ever. The two-week Madrid climate conference could produce an agreement only after removing everything that any country objected to from the final text, and […]
HYDERABAD: The city is dire need of an improvement in infrastructure to handle the onslaught of climate change, according to experts. Pointing out the possibility of a crisis in the near future, they said that a lacunae in policy is one among many factors that will affect disaster response. “Climate change manifests itself both in […]
Agencies As none of the countries assessed is already on a path compatible with the Paris climate targets, the first three places of the ranking remain unoccupied, the authors noted. India, for the first time, ranks among the top 10 in this year’s Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) presented on Tuesday at the COP25 climate […]
WFP is collaborating with a range of public and private sector partners to develop climate risk finance programmes that help governments and vulnerable households to anticipate, absorb and rapidly recover from climate shocks. This Brief provides an overview of these programmes and how WFP is deploying integrated climate risk financing mechanisms that allow for predictable […]
COP25 Governments meeting at COP25 must invest more in risk-reduction strategies and minimise the loss and damage experienced by poorer communities – now. by Bijay Kumar, GNDR Executive Director GNDR members and secretariat staff are attending the yearly United Nations Climate Change Conference on 2-13 December 2019 in Madrid. We’ll be advocating for an increase […]
