Vanuatu Island Poised To Take Specious Climate Claims To The Hague

According to Axios, the United Nations (UN) is poised to approve a resolution from the small island nation of Vanuatu to bring a case for climate change-related damages before the International Court of Criminal Justice in (ICCJ) the Hague. Such…

United Nations adopts landmark resolution on climate justice

A UN resolution was adopted on Wednesday that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency, in a vote which was hailed as a historic victory for climate justice. The UN…

There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other

Last summer, a third of Pakistan was underwater. My country, the fifth most populous in the world, was submerged. Two million homes were destroyed, thousands of acres of agricultural land were flooded and 90% of the crops in Sindh, a…

Tiny island nation of Vanuatu to take climate change to the Hague – Axios

Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios The small Pacific island country of Vanuatu is poised to gain UN approval to seek an unprecedented legal opinion on what obligation countries have to combat climate change. Why it matters: Vanuatu’s resolution would give the International…

Media Parrot IPCC’s Warning Earth Mustn’t Pass 1.5°C Threshold. It Already Did

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the final part of its sixth assessment report (AR6) on Monday, March 20. Predictably, the media rushed to repeat the claims made in the report with their own scary, woefully overwrought, headlines. Here is…

Weather-watching on Jupiter and Uranus with Hubble

The Hubble Space Telescope keeps an eye on the planets in space, watching the weather and seasons change on planets such as Jupiter and Uranus.

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Warming Across Generations – Climate Central

KEY CONCEPTS March 23 is World Meteorological Day, marking the date in 1950 when the World Meteorological Organization was established.  New Climate Central analysis explores the theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day, The Future of Weather, Climate and Water…

Climate Crisis: IPCC Synthesis Report says the vulnerable are suffering the maximum losses and damages

Global temperature rise may touch 1.5 degree by 2030 and India is experiencing high loss and damage; say experts

Climate Crisis: Increased evidence of maladaptation, says IPCC Synthesis Report

India has many examples of maladaptation, making vulnerable communities becoming more helpless to climate impact

Floods, cyclones, thunderstorms: is climate change to blame for New Zealand’s summer of extreme weather? – The Conversation

The final months of New Zealand’s summer carried a massive sting, bringing “unprecedented” rainfalls several times over, from widespread flooding in Auckland at the end of January to ex-tropical Cyclone Gabrielle dumping record rains and causing devastating floods across the…