Climate Change

SHANGHAI — Seventeen months after Chinese artist-turned-sailor Zhai Mo embarked on what he called the “first-ever non-stop circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean,” the 54-year-old finally returned to the city where he started the journey. Zhai received a hero’s welcome in Shanghai on Tuesday at an event hosted by the Shanghai…

With the U.S. government promising over US$360 billion in clean energy incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act, energy companies are already lining up investments. It's a huge opportunity, and analysts project that it could help slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% within the decade. But in conversations with…

You may be hearing the phrase "loss and damage" in the coming weeks as government leaders meet in Egypt for the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference. It refers to the costs, both economic and physical, that developing countries are facing from climate change impacts. Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable…

The prime minister has yet to lock in a meeting with Mr Xi, but officials believe it is more likely than not. With the region and the world in turmoil, due in large parts to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s growing assertiveness, Mr Biden said that he was emboldened…

Mikko Ollikainen, the head of the Adaptation Fund has said that available funding is far from the needs of developing countries.  He stated this while speaking during a TV interview at the ongoing COP 27 event monitored. Ollikainen noted that it has become undeniable that climate change is here and we need…

Network Carbon Intensity energy (NCIe) metric introduced to evaluate network energy efficiency Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – WEBWIRE – Friday, November 11, 2022 A Huawei executive said Thursday information and communications technologies, or ICT, will enable the digitalization of industry, spark innovation and make other industries green. The remarks were made…

Topline President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference Friday and said the U.S. will work to avoid a “climate hell” following a UN report indicating greenhouse gasses will rise 10.6% by 2030 over 2010 levels. Then Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks…

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Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photo: Jes Aznar/Getty Images The huge gap between the sums needed for developing countries to transition to renewable energy sources and adapt to climate change — estimated at $1 trillion in external funding per year — and current funding levels (half that, at most) has been…

Chandigarh: Elections to two states are coming up and what is largely missing is the political discourse on climate change even though it has left a severe impact on people. In Himachal Pradesh, its effects are particularly visceral. In the last five years since 2017, 5,935 people have lost their…