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Earth Day: Biden Expands Climate Corps, Offers Solar for All

April 22, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2024 (ENS) – Celebrating Earth Day today, President Joe Biden traveled to Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia, a national park site developed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Biden chose this background to unveil the first jobs rollout under his new American Climate Corps, and to announce $7 billion in solar energy grants through EPA’s Solar for All program. […]

Elderly Swiss Women Win Climate Case on Human Rights Grounds

April 9, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

STRASBOURG, France, April 9, 2024 (ENS) – The European Court of Human Rights today sided with a group of senior Swiss women who sued the government of Switzerland for placing them at greater risk of death from heat waves by failing to do enough to halt climate change. […]

UN Leader: ‘Our Climate is Imploding, Humanity Is to Blame’

March 1, 2024 News Editor Comments Off

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1, 2024 (ENS) – On the final day of the sixth session of the UN Environment Assembly, UNEA-6, there was a supercharged mood on the UNEP campus, only hours after delegates left the venue feeling deflated after work on draft resolutions was not finalized as scheduled earlier in the week. […]

WMO Predicts Global Heat Streak Will Persist Into 2024

November 13, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 13, 2023 (ENS) – Temperature records were again shattered in October, continuing a streak of high land and ocean surface temperatures and low sea ice, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, C3S. […]

South Africa’s National Assembly Passes Climate Change Bill

November 6, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, November 6, 2023 (ENS) – South Africa’s National Assembly has passed the country’s first Climate Change Bill over objections from two political parties – the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters and the conservative African Christian Democratic Party. […]

WMO: September Shatters Planet’s Monthly Temperature Record

October 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 9, 2023 (ENS) – The year 2023 is now on track to be the warmest year on record, as numerous high temperature records broken in recent months are again smashed… […]

UN Chief Excludes World’s Top Polluters from Climate Summit

September 25, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2023 (ENS) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres aimed a message at the world’s largest polluters Wednesday when he excluded them from his Climate Ambition Summit that took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. His message – you are not taking the climate threat seriously enough. […]

Biased Data Yield Flawed AI Weather Forecasts for Global South

August 22, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 22, 2023 (ENS) – Biased data being fed into artificial intelligence tools are producing unreliable weather predictions, climate and AI researchers are warning. They say developing countries are at greatest risk of missing out on global climate action and could experience “societal tipping events.” […]

Biden Funds Cooling as Warming Climate Generates Extreme Heat

July 27, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, July 27, 2023 (ENS) – “The existential threat of climate change,” as President Joe Biden called it, was the most urgent issue for the President at the White House and the mayors of two heat-stricken cities Phoenix, Arizona and San Antonio, Texas in their own offices, as they held a video call today. […]

WMO: Global Temperature Headed for ‘Uncharted Territory’

May 17, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17, 2023 (ENS) – Fueled by high levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and a naturally occurring El Niño event, global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years, warns a new update by the World Meteorological Organization, WMO. […]

IPCC: Liveable Future Possible If We Defuse Climate Time-Bomb

March 20, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, March 20, 2023 (ENS) – Global temperatures have already risen to 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels after more than a century of burning fossil fuels, as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use. More frequent and intense extreme weather events have caused dangerous impacts on nature and people in every region of the world, finds a major new UN report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. […]

Davos 2023 a ‘Watershed Moment’ for Climate Accountability

January 22, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 22, 2023 (ENS) – On Friday, the final day of panels at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other climate campaigners from the nonprofit she started, Fridays for Future, held a climate march. […]

U.S. Agencies to Assess Climate Impact of Federal Projects

January 9, 2023 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2023 (ENS) – In a new climate change guidance, the Biden Administration asks federal agencies to account for greenhouse gas emissions as they review proposals for clean energy and other infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, commonly called NEPA. […]

COP27: Rich to Fund Climate Loss/Damage for Poorer Countries

November 20, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 20, 2022 (ENS) – The UN Climate Change Conference COP27 closed today in Egypt with a breakthrough agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. […]

COP27 Spills Into Overtime Amid Human Rights Protests

November 18, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 18, 2022 (ENS) – Climate activists and members of civil society have been intimidated, harassed and kept under surveillance during the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt, UN human rights experts said today, urging Egyptian authorities to ensure their safety and enable their full participation. […]

COP27: Humanity ‘On the Highway to Climate Hell’

November 7, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 7, 2022 (ENS) – “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the High-Level opening of the United Nations’ annual climate conference, COP27, which opened in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh today. […]

Climate Activists Stage Sit-Ins, Glue-Ins Ahead of COP27

November 5, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

SHARM el-SHEIKH, Egypt, November 5, 2022 (ENS) – People who care about global warming are focusing in on the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the United Nations’ annual climate conference, COP27, opens Sunday, with speeches by world leaders set for Monday and Tuesday. […]

Caution! Climate Work in Progress

October 27, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

BONN, Germany, October 27, 2022 (ENS) – Countries’ climate promises fall far short of avoiding catastrophic global warming, the United Nations’ climate agency warned Wednesday in a new analysis ahead of the annual UN climate conference, COP27, opening in Egypt in just 10 days. […]

New U.S. Gov Portal Shows Climate Stressors in Real Time

September 10, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, September 9, 2022 (ENS) – Where’s the fire? Where’s the flood? For the first time, an online live climate impact dashboard is allowing people to see extreme weather, drought, wildfire and other climate change hazards that their locations are facing in the short term, with more maps showing how each community could be affected in the future. […]

Biden Signs Wide-Ranging Climate, Clean Energy Bill Into Law

August 18, 2022 News Editor Comments Off

WASHINGTON, DC, August 18, 2022 (ENS) – As President Joe Biden signed the $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act into law at the White House on Tuesday, he showcased what motivates his politics, and Democratic politics in general, exclaiming, “Let me say from the start: With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost!” […]