Helping adapt to extreme weather
In the week following the close of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), a cyclone slammed into Australia, torrential rains pelted the US and a punishing drought continued to decimate
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In the week following the close of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), a cyclone slammed into Australia, torrential rains pelted the US and a punishing drought continued to decimate
Here is a look back at the top adaptation-related moments from this year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
United Nations Climate Conference COP28: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) marks International Mountain Day 2023 with focus on restoring ecosystems
It is that time of the year when the words on the lips of many is the 'Climate COP’, reference to the annual gathering of countries (Parties) and observers that constitute the ‘Conference of Parties’ to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
BACKGROUND: The first reference to climate change started towards the end of the 1950s – Spencer Weart, Retired director of Center for History of Physics, Maryland in an email expressed, “It was just a possibility for the 21st Century which seemed very far away, but seen as a danger that should be prepared for”. Weart’s Discovery of Global warming website had debated whether