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Comments Off on Planet Earth At Risk of Methane Suffocation PARIS, France, May 15, 2021 (ENS) – Methane emissions caused by human activities can be reduced by up to 45 percent this decade, finds the world’s first Global Methane Assessment just issued by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a voluntary partnership led by governments, and the United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP. Such reductions would avoid nearly 0.3°Celsius of global warming by 2045 and would be consistent with keeping the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach...

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 UN's 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 regions. In Europe, during the summer months, it can be found from Brittany in the south, to Iceland, Gr...

Urgent steps must to reduce methane emissions ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Fri, May 7 2021 0:33 IST | ​ 4 Views   Ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the Getz Ice Shelf seen here, are sensitive to warming ocean temperatures. Ocean and atmospheric conditions are some of the drivers of ice sheet loss that scientists considered in a new study estimating additional g. Image Source: IANS News Washington, May 7 : A Global Methane Assessment released on Thursday by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) showed that human-caused methane...

Institutions from the UN to the International Energy Agency have warned against a fossil-fuel powered rebound.

Nations to adopt ecosystem accounting ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Thu, Mar 11 2021 8:36 IST | ​ 0 Views Nations to adopt ecosystem accounting (Xinhua/Zou Zhen/IANS). Image Source: IANS News New York, March 11 : In a historic step that may reshape decision and policy-making towards sustainable development, the United Nations adopted a new framework on Thursday that includes the contributions of nature when measuring economic prosperity and human well-being. The new framework, the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting -- Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA), was adopted by the UN Stat...