Urgent action to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel operations essential to achieve global climate targets 12/10/2023

Decisive, far-reaching efforts to cut methane emissions from fossil fuel production and use must go hand-in-hand with decarbonisation of our energy systems to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).  ...more

Monitoring air pollution levels is key to adopting and implementing WHO's Global Air Quality Guidelines 12/10/2023

New report summarizes air quality monitoring methods to estimate air pollution exposure ...more

Climate change main culprit for hot South American winter 12/10/2023

"While many people have pointed to El Nino to explain the South America heat wave, this analysis has shown that climate change is the primary driver of the heat," said Lincoln Muniz Alves, a researcher at the Brazil National Institute for Space Research who participated in the study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. ...more

Stockholm to ban petrol, diesel cars from city centre 12/10/2023

Stockholm will ban petrol and diesel-powered cars from key parts of the city centre from 2025 as it seeks to improve air quality and reduce traffic noise, the Swedish capital's vice mayor for transport said on Tuesday. ...more

Pressure on nature threatens many flowering plants with extinction 11/10/2023

Forty-five per cent of the world's known flowering plants could be threatened by extinction, scientists have warned. ...more

Deadly humid heat could hit billions, spread as far as US Midwest, study says 11/10/2023

Billions of people could struggle to survive in periods of deadly, humid heat within this century as temperatures rise, particularly in some of the world's largest cities, from Delhi to Shanghai, according to research published on Monday. ...more

France wants methane curbs on Europe's fossil fuel imports -document 11/10/2023

France has proposed that the European Union gradually impose methane emissions limits on gas imported into the 27-country bloc, a move that would attempt to leverage Europe's position as a major fossil fuel buyer to tackle the potent greenhouse gas. ...more

Microplastics detected in clouds hanging atop two Japanese mountains 11/10/2023

Microplastics have been found everywhere from the oceans’ depths to the Antarctic ice, and now new research has detected it in an alarming new location – clouds hanging atop two Japanese mountains. ...more

Losses from China disasters reach $42 billion in first nine months of 2023 11/10/2023

China suffered direct economic losses of 308.29 billion yuan ($42 billion) over the first nine months of 2023, the government said, from natural disasters such as torrential rains, deadly landslides, freakish hailstorms and a string of typhoons. ...more

MENA Climate Week: Highlights and images 10/10/2023

The Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW) opened on Sunday morning, bringing together policymakers, scientists, and other experts from the region and beyond to consider ways to urgently address climate change ahead of the the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 28), which will convene in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on 30 November – 12 December 2023. ...more