Etiket: Climate
Australia offers climate asylum to Tuvalu citizens
A “founding” treaty: Canberra announced on Friday that it would gradually offer climate asylum to some 11,000 citizens of Tuvalu, a small group of Pacific islands eaten away by rising…
Australia offers climate asylum to citizens of Tuvalu, driven from the archipelago by rising waters
Two of its nine atolls have already been largely submerged. According to experts, Tuvalu will be completely uninhabitable within 80 years. The 11,000 inhabitants of the Tuvalu archipelago are among…
Australia offers climate asylum to citizens of Tuvalu, driven from the archipelago by rising waters
Two of its nine atolls have already been largely submerged. According to experts, Tuvalu will be completely uninhabitable within 80 years. The 11,000 inhabitants of the Tuvalu archipelago are among…
Australia offers climate asylum to citizens of Tuvalu, driven from the archipelago by rising waters
Two of its nine atolls have already been largely submerged. According to experts, Tuvalu will be completely uninhabitable within 80 years. The 11,000 inhabitants of the Tuvalu archipelago are among…
Australia offers climate asylum to citizens of Tuvalu, driven from the archipelago by rising waters
Two of its nine atolls have already been largely submerged. According to experts, Tuvalu will be completely uninhabitable within 80 years. The 11,000 inhabitants of the Tuvalu archipelago are among…
By advising COP28, McKinsey is playing a double game on the climate
McKinsey, the world’s largest consulting firm, is using its influence in the preparations for COP28 to defend the interests of its oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to exit fossil…
Fossil fuel producing countries on track to end sustainable climate, UN warns
Worrying climate signals may be omnipresent, but countries continue to encourage growth in global production of fossil fuels, notes the United Nations in a report published Wednesday and which launches…
Gaspésiens and Madelinots vulnerable to the climate crisis
Aging and less affluent, the population of Gaspésie and the Magdalen Islands risks suffering the full brunt of the impacts of the climate crisis, warns the region’s public health department.…
Climate change responsible for “extreme drought” in Iraq, Iran and Syria
The “extreme drought” affecting Iraq, Syria and Iran would not have occurred without global warming caused “mainly” by the burning of oil, gas and coal, according to an expert report…
will a fund to deal with “loss and damage” caused by climate change finally be put in place?
Despite efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change, it will inevitably cause damage. A financial fund could soon enable the countries most in difficulty to cope: we take stock…
Climate change | Ottawa would still be on track to miss its target
(Ottawa) Canada has never reached its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target and the latest plan put in place by the Trudeau government is insufficient to achieve it, notes the Commissioner…
Canada will miss its climate target, says environment commissioner
Even if the Trudeau government says it is confident of achieving its objectives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development is not as…
Quebec will only respond to a fifth of cities’ demands for adaptation to climate change
Despite the accumulation of extraordinary weather events this summer, Quebec will only respond to a fifth of cities’ demands for adaptation to climate change. The economic update tabled Tuesday by…
Ottawa on track to miss its 2030 climate target, says commissioner
New year, but still the same song: the federal government is falling behind in its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction objective that it set for 2030 due to various delays since…
Candidate for the White House | Vivek Ramaswamy wants to leave the Paris Climate Agreement
(Columbus) On the eve of the third Republican debate for the US presidential election, one of the candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy, said Tuesday that like Donald Trump, he would slam the…
Canada is on the path to climate failure
Even if the Trudeau government says it is confident of achieving its objectives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the federal commissioner of the environment and sustainable development is not as…
Climate change | Ottawa still on track to miss its target
(Ottawa) Canada has never reached its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction target and the latest plan put in place by the Trudeau government is no exception. Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner…
Waiting for COP28 | A fragile compromise found regarding climate “loss and damage”
(Paris) Countries of the north and the south reached a fragile compromise on Saturday on the contours of the future fund on climate “loss and damage” for vulnerable countries, paving…
Climate “loss and damage”: a decisive milestone reached before COP28
Countries of the North and South reached a fragile compromise on Saturday on the contours of the future fund on climate “loss and damage” for vulnerable countries, paving the way…
Climate change | François Legault will not go to COP28 in Dubai
(Quebec) Prime Minister François Legault will not represent Quebec at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, COP28, which will be held in Dubai starting at the end of November.…