Laurie Goering
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Fossil fuels, fairness, finance: Climate fights to watch in 2023
We asked experts which issues they think will – or should – turn up the heat in the climate conversation → Read More
As war and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?
The era of cheap food may be ending as climate change, conflict and widespread poverty make food harder to grow and afford – but key policy shifts could help → Read More
Africa: How to Halt Deforestation? Trust Indigenous Groups, Funders Say
To channel much more funding to protect forests, donors need to shift their own demands on indigenous groups, both sides say → Read More
Africa: Clean Energy Transition Must Be Fast and Fair, IPCC Scientists Say
Swift and deep emissions cuts are vital to keep people safe, but they must be equitable and include development aims, report says → Read More
Africa's Water Security Perilous
An early assessment of the continent's water security finds finds Egypt ranked most secure - but climate change presenting threats across Africa → Read More
Africa 'not ready' for climate stress, its scientists say
Growth in food production is slowing faster than in any other region of the world as climate change-driven droughts, floods, heat and pests take a toll → Read More
Green transition slowed by economic barriers
Changes in mindset and boosts in funding are key to achieving a swift transition to a climate-smart economy, researchers say → Read More
Africa: Explainer - Is Climate Change Boosting Hunger Around the World?
Extreme weather, rising seas and hotter temperatures are increasingly affecting farmers and their harvests. What needs to change - and what could help? → Read More
Look beyond COP26 summit to real world for climate action, says top UK scientist
When scientist David King looks at the dramatic climate shifts already emerging around the world - from sweltering North Pole summer heat to deadly flooding - he thinks any deal reached at the U.N. climate talks this week may be "too little, too late". → Read More
Fossil fuel-free future not impossible but disinformation a threat
Costa Rica's President Carlos Alvarado Quesada says his nation's experience shows green shifts are possible - but polarization driven by disinformation is a big ... → Read More
'Time to do the right thing,' negotiators told as COP26 climate talks open
With the UK hosts warning that "lights are flashing red on the climate change dashboard", the COP26 U.N. climate summit kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, marked by pointed warnings of growing threats as emissions-cutting pledges still fail to add up. → Read More
London recruits residents in climate push for clean air and green homes
While training for the London Marathon in 2014, Sadiq Khan - then a British parliamentarian from the south London district of Tooting - found himself gasping for air during runs and discovered he'd developed asthma for the first time in his life. → Read More
What is the COP15 biodiversity summit, and why is it so important?
LONDON, Oct 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - By now you've probably heard of COP26 - the shorthand name for the next major U.N. climate summit, rescheduled for November in Glasgow after being delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Could a U.N. human rights and climate change envoy be created?
As more countries are slammed by devastating floods, storms and wildfires, the push for an envoy to protect the climate-vulnerable is gaining backers → Read More
Africa: How Climate Inaction Is Driving a Mental Health Crisis in Children
Young people's feelings of anger, fear and powerlessness arise less from environmental damage than from the unwillingness of adults to stop it, a Lancet study finds → Read More
Africa: As Seas Rise, Coastal Communities Face Hard Choices Over 'Managed Retreat'
Climate-change-driven sea level rise means more communities will need to move - but planning ahead could preserve what is most important and give families choices → Read More
As seas rise, coastal communities face hard choices over 'managed retreat'
With climate change expected to drive a meter or more of sea level rise this century, planning now for 'managed retreat' from places facing inundation could help at-risk communities preserve what they value most, researchers and city officials said Tuesday. → Read More
Africa: From Suicide to 'Eco-Anxiety', Climate Change Spurs Mental Health Crisis
Mental stresses are growing for families hit by more extreme heat, flooded homes and worries about a hotter planet - but the impacts are little measured so far → Read More
From suicide to 'eco-anxiety', climate change spurs mental health crisis
Intensifying climate change impacts, from fiercer heatwaves to more flooded homes, are driving a growing mental health crisis around the world whose costs are so far underestimated and poorly understood, researchers said on Wednesday. → Read More
Suicide to 'eco-anxiety': Climate change spurs mental health woes
Mental stresses are growing for families hit by more extreme heat, flooded homes and worries about a hotter planet - but the impacts are little measured so far → Read More