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Look for more emphasis on solutions, efforts by cities, climate equity . and outlook for emissions cuts in a hoped-for global economic recovery from pandemic.
By Bob Henson | Wednesday, January 6, 2021
John Kerry – then U.S. Secretary of State, and now set to be the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate – signs the Paris Agreement on Climate Change on April 22, 2016, at UN headquarters, with his granddaughter in tow. The upcoming IPCC Sixth Assessment Report will be released ahead of the 2023 deadline for nations to update the emission cuts they pledged under the agreement. (Photo credit: United Nations / Flickr)
Despite the speed bump posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is rolling toward completion of its Sixth Assessment Report, the latest in a series that began in 1990. ....

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2020 Weather Disasters Boosted By Climate Change: Report


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The burden of weather disasters in 2020 fell disproportionately on the world s poorest nations
SAEED KHAN
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The ten costliest weather disasters worldwide this year saw insured damages worth $150 billion, topping the figure for 2019 and reflecting a long-term impact of global warming, according to a report Monday.
The same disasters claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people.
From Australia s out-of-control wildfires in January to a record number of Atlantic hurricanes through November, the true cost of the year s climate-enhanced calamities was in fact far higher because most losses were uninsured.
Not surprisingly, the burden fell disproportionately on poor nations, according to the annual tally from global NGO Christian Aid, entitled Count the cost of 2020: a year of climate breakdown . ....

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