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In the run-up to the Glassgow climate talks (COP26), the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s flagship annual wake up report on energy pathways, details an achievable roadmap to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report calls for ...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published this year's World Energy Outlook, revealing that the world is seeing the second-largest year-on-year increase in CO2 emissions on record post-pandemic.
FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Tea farmers pluck tea leaves at Tukiamwana in Kisii County. [Sammy Omingo, Standard] A new report from the charity Christian Aid shows that Kenya, the world’s largest exporter of black tea, is facing a host of climate-related impacts such as rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, droughts, and new insect infestations. These are forecast to destroy 26.2 per cent of the country’s optimal tea growing areas by 2050. Areas with medium quality growing conditions are to be cut by 39 per cent in the next 30 years due to climate change. With its crucial role in the globa...
English breakfast tea is poured from a teapot. Photo credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire. Climate change is putting the much-loved British cuppa at risk as extreme weather and rising temperatures hit tea-growing countries, a report warns. The UK and Ireland drink more tea per person than any other countries in the world, with Kenya alone producing half the black tea drunk in the UK. But a report from Christian Aid warns that Kenya, the world’s biggest exporter of black tea, faces more erratic rainfall, making floods and droughts more common, and rising temperatures. Research suggests cli...
The species found to cause the most crop losses was a moth known as Phthorimaea absoluta, which affects tomato plants, at an estimated cost of $11.4 billion annually.