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HotSpots H2O: New Report Urges Policymakers to ‘Wake Up to the Looming Water Crisis’

Circle of Blue

Over the past 20 years, the majority of flood losses have occurred in Asia, where climate change-induced rainfall is expected to hit the hardest. Climate change is poised to thrust billions more into water insecurity. Photo © GKarunakar / Wikimedia Commons. billion in 2018.

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The Climate Overshoot Commission Releases its Report

Legal Planet

The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14. General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept.

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Restoring our planet: Research Topics on COP26

Frontiers

With all eyes on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) this month, we have curated a list of our best Research Topics addressing the four goals of the conference. degrees within reach, adapting to protect natural habitats, mobilizing climate finance, and tackling the crisis through collaboration. degrees within reach.

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

Taking into account not only permafrost thaw, but also a host of other biogeochemical and atmospheric feedbacks, the AR6 estimates to appropriately include the effect of all these feedbacks, remaining carbon budgets have to be reduced by 26 ± 97 GtCO 2 per degree Celsius of additional warming. Nature Climate Change. References.

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UN Conference on Water Aims to Rally Support for Ambitious Goals

Circle of Blue

It is not the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which resulted in UN conventions on three major environmental issues: biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. One is rather obscure: the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. The atmosphere of swirling possibility is part of the appeal.

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Will renewable energy save us from climate change?

Global Green

Ultimately, the message conveyed by Moore is renewable technology is not enough to save our planet from climate change and the only way forward is for the human race to slow down. Besides sequestering 25% of the CO2 from the atmosphere , oceans are an immense resource for energy production. How green are renewables? So, what?”.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity.