Top news of the week: 01.09.2021.
Climate
Hurricane Ida: How Climate Change Is Influencing Storms
Rising temperatures are increasing the hurricane risks to New Orleans and other coastal area
Big Banks Are Funding Climate Disaster. Business Needs to Push Back.
The global banking sector is funding fossil fuels to a staggering degree. CEOs need to treat those banks like the pariahs they are, writes Paul Polman.
‘Entire Economies Could Be Held Hostage by Climate Change’
On this edition of the Development Podcast from the World Bank Group, we examine one of the biggest challenges facing the global community today: Climate Change.
Britain’s economy is already seeing a rapid shift due to climate change
Climate change could spark major shifts in British produce in the coming decades as the country attempts to avoid a "catastrophic" environmental fallout.
As denying climate change becomes impossible, fossil-fuel interests pivot to 'carbon shaming'
Signs of global warming are ubiquitous. So fossil-fuel supporters have shifted to smearing climate advocates' lifestyles and carbon consumption.
Why I am a stubborn optimist. The opportunity in tackling climate change
By Christiana Figueres – Founding Partner at Global Optimism, co-presenter of Outrage + Optimism, co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis
Climate Change is a Health Crisis. The Treatment is Legislative Climate Action | Opinion
Over one third of children globally are exposed to the dangers of heatwaves. Urging our elected officials to act is the treatment needed to protect the health of these children from a child ...
New United Nations Report on Climate Change Documents the Grave Condition of the World’s Glaciers
Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a landmark report on the latest science of climate change. Here’s what it had to say about the world’s glaciers.