UN Climate Change

• World is heading toward series of environmental ‘tipping points,’ UN warns

  The Interconnected Disaster Risks report identified accelerating rates of extinction, groundwater depletion, glacial melt and extreme heat as the major interconnected threats.

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  Oct 25, 2023
  
• UN warns ‘humanity is on thin ice’ in latest climate report. What does it say?

  Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change 's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.

  Environment

  Mar 20, 2023
  
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• U.N. climate change report ‘a wake up call,’ says activist Greta Thunberg

  Activist Greta Thunberg, who has rallied youth to protest for climate action worldwide, said people's awareness of climate change was increasing, but "very slowly."

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  Aug 9, 2021
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• Extreme heat waves expected to happen every decade, U.N. climate report says

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report also found that once-in-a-decade heavy rain events are now 1.3 times more likely and 6.7 per cent wetter.

  Environment

  Aug 9, 2021
• ‘Code red for humanity’: Climate change spiraling out of control, U.N. report says

  Drawing on more than 14,000 scientific studies, the report gives the most comprehensive and detailed picture yet of how climate change is altering the natural world.

  Environment

  Aug 9, 2021
• Climate-fuelled disasters forcibly displace 20M people a year, Oxfam report says

  Oxfam's report, published Monday, said that climate disasters have become the number one driver of internal displacement in the last decade.

  Environment

  Dec 2, 2019
• Global effort to stop climate change ‘utterly inadequate,’ UN chief says

  Speaking before the start Monday of a two-week international climate conference in the Spanish capital, Guterres said that ``our war against nature must stop and we know that that is possible.''

  World

  Dec 1, 2019
• Trump calls teen Greta Thunberg a ‘happy young girl’ after her angry, impassioned speech

  "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future," Trump wrote in a tweet posted late Monday. "So nice to see!"

  World

  Sep 24, 2019
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• 80M jobs could be lost by 2030 due to climate change: UN

  A temperature rise of 1.5C by the end of century could lead to a 2.2 per cent drop in working hours - equal to 80 million full-time jobs - costing the global economy US$2.4 trillion.

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  Jul 1, 2019
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• ‘Climate apartheid’ where rich survive and poor suffer a real possibility, UN expert warns

  Even in the "best-case scenario," a UN expert says hundreds of millions of people could face food insecurity, forced migration, disease and death due to climate change.

  Environment

  Jun 25, 2019