Top news of the week: 19.05.2021.
Climate
Locally led adaptation – a time for action podcast
In the run-up to the UN climate summit (COP26) negotiations, IIED presents a new mini-series of three podcast conversations examining issues affecting and solutions to locally led adaption ...
Article Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
This paper investigates how ExxonMobil uses rhetoric and framing to shape public discourse on climate change. We present an algorithmic corpus compari…
Philanthropists and billionaires must walk the talk on climate change
Our approach to combating global warming would be more creative, farther reaching and, undoubtedly, more successful if the wealthiest among us pitched in adequately.
African rainforests slow climate change despite record heat, drought
Rainforests in six African countries found to be more resistant to extra heat and drought than tropical forests in the Amazon and Southeast Asia
Climate Change Added $8 Billion to Hurricane Sandy’s Damages
New research shows how much warming is costing society by exacerbating disasters
Climate change boosted Hurricane Sandy economic losses by billions - study
The study projected that Hurricane Sandy, which slammed New York City and the East Coast, cost $63 billion in damage
When Slowing Global Warming Means Cutting Down Trees: Hard Choices in the Climate Crisis
The world must reach net-negative CO2 emissions by midcentury, not only to slow the pace of climate change, but to reduce the millions deaths yearly from fossil fuel air pollution. Much of ...
Big Oil Is Trying to Make Climate Change Your Problem to Solve. Don’t Let Them
A new Harvard study highlights a decades-long trend — how industry creates systemic problems and then blames consumers for it