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 […]
The year 2017 was the hottest year ever recorded for the world’s oceans, according to a study by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP CAS). The study shows that ocean warming in 2017 has occurred in most parts of the world, even though the Atlantic and the oceans of the southern […]
UN Climate Change News, 21 February 2018 – Efforts to green the European shipping industry have received a boost this week, with two major banks pledging to fund €300 million worth of clean tech investments in ships over the next three years. The Dutch bank ING and the European Investment Bank (EIB) will each contribute €150 […]
UN Climate Change News, 14 February 2018 – Taxes are effective at cutting harmful greenhouse emissions from energy use, but taxation applied by major economies to CO2 emissions is not enough to fight climate change, say experts with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the report Taxing Energy Use 2018 published today. The report describes […]
UN Climate Change News, 2 February 2018 – From mangrove forests to coral reefs on the coast, to peatlands to floodplains inland, wetlands play a crucial role in the fight against climate change and help make urban areas more sustainable. On 2 February, we celebrate World Wetlands Day. As societies implement the Paris Agreement to keep […]
January 17, 2018 According to German reinsurer Munich RE, natural disasters caused more damage in 2017 than in any the previous five years, with much of the damage caused by extreme weather events linked to climate change, above all severe hurricanes, flooding and fires. Last year, natural disasters caused USD 330 billion worth of damage, nearly […]
Oxygen concentrations in ocean water are declining
Today at the One Planet Summit, on the 2nd anniversary of the Paris Agreement, world leaders gathered once again
El Seminario Virtual fue realizado por la Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, MEXICO2 (plataforma Grupo BMV) y Carbon Trust
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