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'More And Faster': UN Calls To Shrink Buildings' Carbon Footprint

Countries must move rapidly to slash CO2 emissions from homes, offices, shops and other buildings -- a sector that accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas pollution, the United Nations said Monday.

International Business Times

UN hails rare climate success story as emissions from construction stop rising

2024 represents only non-pandemic year when building emissions have stalled – but will the progress last?

The Independent UK

How sand mining is eroding rivers, livelihoods and cultures

Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high-purity silica sand is essential for making the silicon chips that power our digital devices.

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Cop29: Key questions about the UN climate conference

The meeting kicks off against a backdrop of deadly weather events, extreme conditions and record temperatures in recent months.

Evening Standard

'We are teetering on a planetary tightrope': Cut emissions in half right now to prevent climate catastrophe, UN warns

A new U.N. report has found the world will warm by twice the 1.5-degree-Celsius target adopted in the Paris Agreement by 2100 if countries fail to slash greenhouse gas emissions right now.

LiveScience

Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find

Two reports on protecting biodiversity were released at a major UN summit on global biodiversity underway in Cali, Colombia

The Independent UK

World on track for ‘catastrophic’ 3.1C of global warming this century, UN warns

International goal to limit warming to 1.5C will ‘soon be dead’ without a massive mobilisation to cut climate emissions, UN says.

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‘Crunch time for real’: UN says time for climate delays has run out

Means to stop catastrophic global heating exist, says UN chief, but political courage is needed to end world’s fossil fuel addiction

The Guardian - UK

World is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature, UN report says

The United Nation’s warning comes as scientists say 2024 will most certainly be Earth’s hottest year on record once again

The Independent UK

‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill for decades

People in Gaza are exposed to airborne particles released as Israel destroys the enclave. Inhaled, it can cause cancers.

Al Jazeera

Urban communities that lack shade sizzle when it's hot. Trees are a climate change solution

Cities are adding trees and green spaces as one way to blunt the impact of warmer average temperatures and heat waves that are longer and hotter due to climate change

The Independent UK

The leading alternative to GDP is languishing over a technical disagreement – with grave potential consequences

Many commentators believe that the world should move away from measuring economic success in terms of GDP growth. Yes, growth has brought prosperity and untold riches, but it has had significant negative side effects for the planet, including climate change, pollution and species extinction. None of these are captured in…

The Conversation

Clearing Gaza rubble could take 15 years, UN agency says

The war debris contains unexploded ordnance, harmful substances and bodies, according to a UN report.

Al Jazeera

Sharp rise in number of climate lawsuits against companies, report says

About 230 cases filed against corporations and trade associations around world since 2015

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‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

The Hindu

World wastes 1 billion meals a day, says U.N. report

Global food waste crisis: 1 billion meals wasted daily in 2022, impacting 783 million hungry people, per UNEP report.

The Guardian - UK

‘Bewildering’ to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan

Academic experts also criticise UN Food and Agriculture Organization for dismissing alternative proteins

The Guardian - UK

Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference

Thousands of farmers have been persuaded by TREES scheme to replace barren monocultures with biodiverse forest gardens

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Switzerland calls on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering

Proposal focuses on technique that fills atmosphere with particles, reflecting part of sun’s heat and light back into space

Al Jazeera

‘Elephant in the room’: The US military’s devastating carbon footprint

The US military emits more than entire industrialised nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny.

International Business Times

Climate Change By Numbers

As countries try to hammer out a response to climate change at the COP28 talks in Dubai, here are some key figures about how fossil fuels have warmed our world.

The Independent UK

Climate contradictions key at UN talks. Less future warming projected, yet there's more current pain

Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated

The Conversation

Faith communities are rallying to check climate change – their size and influence counts

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), more than 80% of the global population are motivated by a faith or spirituality. Faced with the triple planetary crises of pollution, biodiversity loss and climate change, what role can faith communities play in saving the planet?

Radio France Internationale

Africa's young leaders demand financial aid to combat extreme weather events

Young people in Africa have called on developed countries to double the funding for climate change adaptation in Africa.

Al Jazeera

Earth to warm up to 2.9C even with current climate pledges: UN

UN warns window for limiting warming to 1.5C is closing fast ahead of COP28 meeting in Dubai.

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