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351 views Maxpixels Countries can and must reduce methane emissions 45% this decade to avoid nearly 0.3°C of additional global warming by 2045, keep a relatively climate-safe future within reach, and prevent 260,000 premature deaths per year, according to a landmark Global Methane Assessment released last week by the Climate and Clear Coalition and the UN Environment Programme. “Cutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years and complements neces...

Champion of the Earth! 1320535 Michael Taylor - A Filipina chef is hoping chocolate will become the secret ingredient needed to help farmers in her typhoon-hit community survive and prosper when future natural disasters strike. Louise Mabulo, 21, founded the Cacao Project in the rural town of San Fernando, about 390 km south of Manila, to help local farmers whose homes and livelihoods were destroyed by Typhoon Nock-ten in 2016. More than 200 farmers have since been trained in modern, sustainabl...

Livestock targeted as UN seeks lower methane emissions >More in © Tim Scrivener Agriculture has a key role to play in reducing global methane emissions, so limiting the climate change impact of one of the most potent greenhouse gases, a new UN report has concluded. This should involve both changes to livestock management and the adoption of healthy diets – eating less meat and dairy produce, or none at all – the Global Methane Asse...

Climate change threatens winged harbinger of spring United Nations 08 May 2021, 16:21 GMT+10 A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but ahead of the UNs experts fear the warming of the oceans in its nesting grounds in the northern Atlantic is threatening its very existence. The Arctic tern is a great traveller, and spends most of the year on the move, with long periods over the ocean. Its breeding grounds cover both the northern and southern polar regio...

The world is currently at the risk of unusual temperature rise. The consequences may be very severe if something is not done urgently to arrest the situation. In a seeming frantic bid to avert an environmental pandemic on the scale of COVID-19, a UN-backed report is urging that methane emissions caused by human activity can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade. By so doing, it will help to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the Paris Agreement on climate cha...

May 08, 2021 National governments are the main drivers of change to reduce harmful emissions. — courtesy Unsplash/Daniel Moqvist GENEVA — Methane emissions caused by human activity can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade, thus helping to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a UN-backed report published on Thursday. The Global Methane Assessment outlines the benefits of mitigating meth...

U.N.: Cutting methane quickly key to curbing dangerous warming By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Published: May 6, 2021, 3:47pm Share: This combination of satellite images provided by the Kayrros data analytics company shows methane plumes, captured using specialized sensors overlaid on optical photos, rising from natural gas sites in Aliso Canyon north of Los Angeles on Oct. 26, 2015, left, and the Permian Basin in Texas on Nov. 8, 2020. According to a United Nations re...

7 May 2021 The Morrison government will pour a further $58.6 million into the gas industry as part of a funding package for new gas storage facilities and a gas import terminal on Australia’s east coast. The funding will be included in the federal budget, to be handed down on Tuesday next week and represents a doubling-down by the Morrison government on its ‘gas led recovery’ push to expand the gas industry. The package includes support for Squadron Energy, backed by resources billionaire...

Washington DC, 6 May 2021 (UNEP)* – A Global Methane Assessment released today by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that human-caused methane emissions can be reduced by up to 45 per cent this decade.   Such reductions would avoid nearly 0.3°C of global warming by 2045 and would be consistent with keeping the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (1.5˚C) within reach. The a...

UNEP seeks more protection for environmentalists and more environmental news . LatinAmerican Post | Vanesa López Romero Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. On May 5, the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, and the president of COP25 (which took place in 2019), Carolina Schmidt , asked all countries to comply with the commitments made in the Ambition Alliance. Climatic, or that, if they do not belong to the Alliance, they join it. This happens in the framework o...