Top news of the week: 25.08.2021.
Climate
One billion children at ‘extremely high risk’ of the impacts of the climate crisis - UNICEF
Children in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are among the most at risk of climate change, according to UNICEF’s first child-focused climate risk index.
Good news: The media is getting the facts right on climate change
"Both sides" of what "debate"?
Climate change will disrupt supply chains much more than Covid — here’s how businesses can prepare
Experts say supply-chain disruptions during Covid will be nothing compared with those from climate change. Here's how companies can protect themselves.
ANALYSIS-Climate science struggles with 'blind spots' in developing nations
Authors of the most recent IPCC report have highlighted the gaps in climate research on the Global South, with those countries still under-represented in international scientific efforts
What the New IPCC Report Means for Companies and Investors
The recent extreme weather events around the world — from floods to wildfires — have resulted in tragic loss of human life, and caused damage to factories and farmlands, halting ...
Climate change made deadly floods in Western Europe at least 20% more likely - study
Because warmer air holds more moisture, summer downpours in the region are also now 3-19% heavier than they would be without global warming, scientists found
The impacts of climate change: Why biodiversity matters
Priyanka Lalla, a 14-year-old climate activist from Trinidad and Tobago, on the links between biodiversity and climate change, and how and we urgently need to restore nature’s balance.
As disasters mount, central banks gird against threat of climate change
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, officials of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system.