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The risk from heat waves is about more than intensity – being able to cool off is essential, and that’s hard to find in many low-income areas of the world.
The risk from heat waves is about more than intensity – being able to cool off is essential, and that’s hard to find in many low-income areas of the world.
A mockup of a planet earth is displayed at the Rheinaue park during the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. - AFP JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo called for stronger global commitments to tackle climate change this week, but environmentalists are not buying it. They complain that Indonesia’s emissions-reduction target has not budged and that national policies are still being pursued at the expense of the environment. In a prerecorded statement aired at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) hosted by the Netherlands on Tuesday (...
Countries are not adapting fast enough to climate change and financing for adaptation has fallen short, according to a United Nations report released Thursday.
1 This aerial photo taken on November 10, 2019, shows a destroyed house after cyclone Bulbul hit Koyra, Bangladesh. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman (Getty Images) If world leaders don’t seriously step up their game to adapt to the climate crisis, we’ll see catastrophic human and economic losses everywhere, a new report from the world’s top global environmental authority warns. Advertisement United Nations scientists have told us time and time again that we must curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change. But the fifth edition of the UN Environment Program’s Adaptation Gap Report, re...