Top news of the week: 22.12.2021.
Climate
The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault
Photography by Larry C. Price This article is part of a series produced in partnership with NBC News and Undark Magazine, a non-profit, editorially independent digital magazine exploring ...
‘This new snow has no name’: Sami reindeer herders face climate disaster
The only indigenous people left in Europe are struggling to keep their way of life as the Arctic warms up
Global warming will make undocumented migration into US ‘increasingly dangerous’
The already perilous desert migration from Mexico to the US will become more dangerous as the climate warms, new research says.
Q&A: What does China’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate change?
The headline targets in China’s updated NDC are pledges to reach a peak in CO2 emissions before 2030 and achieve “carbon neutrality” before 2060.
Lessons from COP26 for financing the just transition
This policy brief reviews the attention given to a crucial aspect of climate change action - the just transition - at the COP26 climate summit and the priorities that lie ahead for 2022.
Children’s Programming Needs to Tackle Climate Change
The topic is curiously absent from shows for kids
U.S. climate-change fight threatened as Manchin rejects Biden's bill
From electric vehicle tax credits to incentives for carbon capture, here is a look at five top climate measures in the bill and their prospects if the wider legislation dies
Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security - Position Paper
Climate change mitigation in forests: Conflict, peacebuilding, and lessons for climate security III There is growing awareness of the link between climate change and security. Most of the ...