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The market for business jets, paralleling the flight path of the general economy, is leveling off after two years of post-COVID soaring.

In December last year, world leaders gathered in Dubai to attend COP28. The key highlight of the conference was the leaders’ commitment to finding a solution to climate change-induced health...

The Comptroller and Director of the Division of Financial and Administrative Management at UNICEF, Thomas Asare, has been appointed as the Assistant Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization.

Executive Order 14057 justifies the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions as necessary to counteract the existential threat of climate change. The program’s comprehensive and prohibitively expensive initiative proposes to transform the operational military by achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2045, purportedly on firmly established “science-based” targets that are validated by computer models and consensus within the scientific community. The plan&#03...

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IIED is to host Jim Skea and his team throughout his tenure as chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The chair’s office will bring together experts to assess the science related to climate change, and the mitigation and adaptation solutions to address it.

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Despite the world not being on track to keep temperature rises below 1.5 degrees Celsius, there are major opportunities for Australia to reduce emissions at low cost and limit further global warming, a climate expert from the ANU says.

Failure to limit the global temperature increase means ground-level ozone mortality will rise dramatically, researchers predict.

"As Earth’s annual average temperature pushes against the 1.5 degree Celsius limit beyond which climatologists expect the impacts of global warming to intensify, social scientists warn that humanity may be about to sleepwalk into a dangerous new era in human history. Research shows the increasing climate shocks could trigger more social unrest and authoritarian, nationalist