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网页COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate. 19 September 2024. News Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of …
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
网页2016年2月9日 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
The Talanoa Dialogue explained - Climate Home News
网页2018年12月10日 · In Fiji, “talanoa” means to hold a conversation in an inclusive, receptive space. It is traditional method of solving differences in the Pacific. The Talanoa Dialogue seeks to break the climate deadlock by drawing participants closer together through sharing their stories of climate change. Governments, but also civil society, NGOs ...
Joe Lo, Author at Climate Home News
网页Joe Lo. Joe Lo is a reporter for Climate Home News. He has previously specialised in container shipping, UK politics and investigative stories about Scotland. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera and Deutsche Welle.
The Sahara gas pipeline faces problems, risking Nigerian taxpayers
网页2024年2月14日 · The Nigerian government is sinking billions into the long-delayed project but economic and security problems are mounting. For over 20 years, Nigeria has been trying to build a pipeline that would bring gas through the Sahara desert to Algeria and on to customers in Europe. The hope is that it would raise gas exports and bring money into state ...
Chloé Farand, Author at Climate Home News
网页Chloé Farand. Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe
网页2022年8月26日 · One of the main problems of extreme drought in freshwater ecosystems are the impacts to biodiversity, explained Colvin. With lower water levels, pollutants become more concentrated, increasing their toxicity to wildlife. Combined with extreme temperatures, “anything living in those rivers is really struggling to survive,” she said.
Nigeria to end gas flaring by 2030, under national climate plan
网页2021年8月13日 · The Nigerian government has pledged to end the burning of gas as a by-product of oil production by 2030, under its latest climate plan submitted to the UN. Fossil fuel companies’ gas flaring account for a huge part of Nigeria’s emissions. At 75 million tonnes of Co2 equivalent a year, they outstrip the emissions from all 200 million ...
US turns against plastic producers, boosting hopes for treaty
网页2024年8月15日 · Micronesia is one of the nations leading the Bridge to Busan coalition. Their negotiator Dennis Clare told Climate Home on Thursday that he hopes the US now signs up “and seeks to play a leadership role on addressing plastics production, which is the cornerstone of any effective treaty on plastic pollution”. The US has not indicated whether ...
UN climate chief calls for investment boost in Africa
网页2024年5月9日 · UN climate chief Simon Stiell has urged world leaders “to flip the script” on climate action in Africa and move from “an epidemic of under-investment” to a “goldmine of human and economic benefits”. Speaking at a conference of African environment ministers on Thursday in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Stiell said investments in ...