UN Climate Change News, 28 March 2018 – China reached its 2020 carbon emission target three years ahead of schedule with the help of the country’s carbon trading system according to Xie Zhenhua, China’s representative to UNFCCC negotiations. The development provides an important boost to the Paris Agreement on Climate Action, which has the central goal […]
UN Climate Change News, 9 March 2018 – Experts have established a global blueprint to better understand climate change, its impacts on cities, and the critical role local authorities play in solving this challenge. Cities are responsible for some 75% of global CO2 emissions, with transport and buildings being among the largest contributors. The research agenda […]
After more than 6 years of intense meetings and negotiations, 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have adopted in San Jose, Costa Rica, the “Escazú Agreement”, also known as Agreement by Principle 10. It is one of the most important environmental human rights agreements of the last twenty years. This multilateral instrument […]
By Maria-José Viñas, NASA’s Earth Science News Team Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but […]