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What’s Up With Water – September 20, 2021

Circle of Blue

This week, Circle of Blue reports on how water fits into the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. When diplomats and government ministers converge on Glasgow this fall, they hope to rekindle pivotal negotiations on global climate that were dampened during the pandemic. degrees Celsius.

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Recent developments on carbon dioxide removal: Increasing policy support but governance issues remain

Law Columbia

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Many governments are beginning to include at least some form of CDR in their portfolio of climate policies and international commitments.

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HotSpots H2O: World Spending on Climate Adaptation Must Increase Five- or Tenfold

Circle of Blue

While climate adaptation planning is more widespread than ever, the U.N. T here is a huge gulf between what communities are spending to prepare for climate change and what they ought to spend, a new U.N. This gap is widening, as the costs of climate adaptation increase due to rising global temperatures. report found.

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Unrelenting Heat Requires Accountability and Action

Union of Concerned Scientists

Right in the middle of Danger Season , we are going through a period of unprecedented global extreme temperatures driven by fossil-fueled climate change. With El Niño beginning, natural climate variability will push the already extreme temperatures occurring due to climate change even higher in the coming months.

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‘The Opportunity Is Now’: Water Advocates View Upcoming UN Climate Conference as Moment of Relevance

Circle of Blue

Water groups hope to elevate their issue in Glasgow and bridge the water-climate policy divide. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – September 15, 2021. Events of the past year — torrential floods, exhausting droughts, deadly heat waves — sharpened focus that society must adapt to these climate changes.

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Summer Heat Is Coming: Will New Policies Protect Workers?

Union of Concerned Scientists

Each year, summer-like temperatures arrive all too soon during spring, thanks to human-induced climate change. Because as we know, climate change has become a climate crisis. degrees Celsius, in line with the Paris Agreement. Photo is author’s own. And that danger is only increasing.

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UN: ‘We are likely to miss climate targets’

A Greener Life

Just months before the crucial COP26 climate summit begins, the UN has issued a stark warning that we are far off the speed needed to tackle the climate crisis. The targets agreed to during the landmark COP21 summit in Paris in 2015 of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 Not going in the right direction. Emissions bouncing back.