News headlines for “Climate Change and Global Warming”, page 91

  1. Farming in Crisis: Suicides and Climate Change Threaten India's Agrarian Future

    - Inter Press Service

    DELHI, Nov 11 (IPS) - "Farming is in my blood, and I can't imagine doing anything else," said Mahim Mazumder, a farmer from Assam. "Even though the past three to five years have seen drastic changes—with temperatures rising so much that even sitting under a tree no longer offers relief—I will keep farming, even if it only yields a small harvest. I've spent my entire life farming, and despite all the challenges, I'll continue."

  2. COP29: Push for agreement on a new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’

    - UN News

    Following another year of record-high global heat and extreme weather events, UN climate chief Simon Stiell told negotiators at COP29 in Baku that setting an ambitious new climate finance target is crucial for the well-being of all nations, including the wealthiest and most powerful.

  3. UN Climate Summit Needs Action – not a COP-Out

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 08 (IPS) - The Paris Agreement on climate change is a decade old this month. While there has been progress - with new net zero pledges and new technological solutions, we are still grappling with the reality that global temperatures continue to soar. 2023 was the hottest year ever on record.

  4. World News in Brief: Haiti latest, plastic tide in Samoa, Bakery boost in Ukraine, arbitrary detention in Mexico

    - UN News

    The crisis in Haiti continues to deteriorate as violence escalates across the country. According to the UN human rights office on Friday, between January and September of this year nearly 4,900 people have been killed.

  5. Deadly weather events show cost of climate inaction

    - UN News

    Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of the extreme weather events accelerating and intensifying across the world. With the cost of inaction clearer than ever, financing for clean alternatives to the fossil fuels which are driving climate change will be top of the agenda at this year’s UN climate conference, COP29.

  6. Cities Will Be Hit Hardest By Climate Change, UN Report Warns

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 07 (IPS) - Cities are in a unique position, simultaneously the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses and the most affected areas of the greenhouse effect. As a new UN report shows that rapid urbanization and industrialization have adverse effects on the environment, causing a rise in sea levels, prolonged rainfalls and flooding, and an increase in overall temperature. The coastal areas that cities most often inhabit face the brunt of these effects, with marginalized populations being the most vulnerable.

  7. UNEP: Nations Must Step Up Adaptation—Starting with Bold Finance Action at COP 29

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Nov 07 (IPS) - The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) 2024 Adaptation Gap Report has warned that adaptation actions are not keeping pace with the surging demands of a warming planet. Released ahead of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, the report—titled Come Hell and High Water—projected a bleak future where vulnerable communities bear the brunt of climate-induced hardships. 

  8. Record heat persists as WMO calls for urgent services and investment boost

    - UN News

    The world is experiencing unprecedented warming with 2024 poised to become the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record in 2023, according to new data released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ahead of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

  9. Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit

    - UN News

    Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday, starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit.

  10. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Preserving the Cultural Heritage

    - Inter Press Service

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov 6 2024 (IPS) - More durable than bronze, higher than Pharaoh’s pyramids is the monument I have made, a shape that angry wind or hungry rain cannot demolish, nor the innumerable ranks of the years that march in centuries. I shall not wholly die: some part of me will cheat the goddess of death.

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