Climate Change

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has published a free handbook to help workplaces prepare for the potential challenges and impacts climate change can have on workers. Climate Change: Workplace Impacts offers guidance on how to take action to identify, assess, control, and monitor climate-related hazards; take…

From Challenges to Ambitions: an Egyptian Adventurer’s E-Bike Trip to COP28 Photo credit: Ali Abdo As the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) is being hosted again in the Middle East, more and more focus is directed towards the effects of climate change…

July isn't even over yet and a group of scientists are saying it’s “extremely likely,” it will be the hottest month ever recorded. That's according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the E.U.-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service. Already, the first three weeks of this month have been the warmest…

In this image provide by NOAA, a fish swims near coral showing signs of bleaching at Cheeca Rocks off the coast of Islamorada, Fla., on July 23. Andrew Ibarra/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Ibarra/AP In this image provide by NOAA, a fish swims near coral showing signs of bleaching…

BANGKOK: Countries in the Asia-Pacific region need to drastically increase their investments in disaster warning systems and other tools to counter rising risks from climate change, a United Nations report said Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila). The report by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, or Escap,…

July is expected to be Earth’s hottest month ever, amid temperatures that scientists found would be “nearly impossible” without climate change. Parts of the American Southwest have stayed stubbornly north of 100 degrees. Surface temperatures in waters off the coast of Florida have gotten so hot as to make the…

Whether it's deadly flooding in Nova Scotia, fires across Europe or suffocating heat in the U.S. Southwest, experts say there's almost no doubt: climate change is the culprit. Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heat waves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to a…

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Higher taxes for diesel and petrol cars and parking levies at workplaces are among the measures needed to drive larger emissions cuts in Ireland, the Climate Change Advisory Council has said. The climate council, which offers independent advice to the Government, said Ireland was way off the pace when it…

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Many businesses define sustainability as ecological. In 2021, we invited panellists to talk about ways in which game studios and publishers can be more sustainable, for example by reducing their carbon footprint and raising…