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World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s single largest investor, has warned company directors it will vote against their re-election to the board if they do not up their game on tackling the climate crisis, human rights abuses and…
RealClimate: 2022 updates to model-observation comparisons
Our annual post related to the comparisons between long standing records and climate models.
As frequent readers will know, we maintain a page of comparisons between climate model projections and the relevant observational records,…
Football and the climate crisis: does the game really want to tackle it?
About three years ago, in the thick of a League Two promotion campaign, Michael Doughty began to notice something. An unusually wet winter had flooded Swindon Town’s training pitches, forcing them to trek up and down the country in…
Will Steffen fought passionately for our planet. To honour him we must follow his lead |
This week science lost one of its greatest Earth system experts, Australia lost a skilled, passionate communicator of climate science and the world lost a humble soul of the highest humanity, kindness and integrity. As did scores of…
‘Rather die in jail than a nursing home’: climate activists show stiff resolve as they
Fourteen climate activists who allegedly briefly but raucously disrupted Queensland parliament last November emerged from their first court appearance on Wednesday morning to blistering sunshine, rowdy cheers from supporters and an…
This Guide Can Help You Save Money And Fight Climate Change
By Nadja Popovich and Elena Shao Feb. 1, 2023
Many American consumers are now eligible to save thousands of dollars when they buy an electric car, heat pump, solar panels or energy-efficient appliances.…
Sunak’s warm words on nature sound good, but can they save our last nightingales and
Make no mistake: our natural world is in crisis, and we are far beyond the point where words alone will fix it. For proof, you need only look to the annual Big Garden Birdwatch, which has shown a catastrophic decline over the past 14…
Emissions divide now greater within countries than between them – study
The difference between the carbon emissions of the rich and the poor within a country is now greater than the differences in emissions between countries, data shows.The finding is further evidence of the growing divide between the…
Earth is on track to exceed 1.5C warming in the next decade, study using AI finds
The world is on the brink of breaching a critical climate threshold, according to a new study published on Monday, signifying time is running exceedingly short to spare the world the most catastrophic effects of global heating.Using…
You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction
“People feel a kind of longing for a belonging to the natural world,” says the author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer. “It’s related to, I think, some of the dead ends that we have created for ourselves that…
