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Near record jump in CO2 emissions expected in 2024 risks climate goal
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Climate change bigger economic risk than Pandemic, ECB’s Schnabel says
With climate change posing an even bigger risk, the ECB must keep this issue high on its agenda as it reviews its policy framework, Schnabel told Reuters in an interview.
“Climate change is probably the biggest challenge we are facing, much bigger than the pandemic,” Schnabel said.
“Even though this health shock was entirely unrelated to monetary policy, it nevertheless has huge implications for monetary policy,” she said. “The same is true for climate change and this is why central banks cannot ignore it.”
US to rejoin Paris Climate agreement:Kamala Harris
Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris : slammed President Donald Trump and pledged to rejoin the Paris agreement on Climate Change
Pandemic is an opportunity to focus on climate change and environment conservation:Govt official
“The pandemic has given a lot of challenges but it has given the opportunity to jump-start the economies, rebuild societies through recovery plans and focus on climate change and environment conservation,” he said.
Climate change to drive large future Cat losses
It’s a mess at least partially of our own making, said Susan Cutter, director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Institute at the University of South Carolina.
“We are seeing an increase of intensity of these phenomena because we as a society are fundamentally changing the Earth and at the same time we are moving to locations that are more hazardous,” Cutter said Wednesday.
EU needs more proactive climate change adaptation plans – insurers
Industry trade body Insurance Europe said the EU strategy needs to shift to more preventative behaviour,said Industry trade body Insurance Europe.
Parachutist makes world’s first jump from solar-powered plane
The two-seater prototype plane made the test flight in good weather and to promote renewable energy. Parachutist Raphael Domjan reached a speed of 150 kilometres per hour during his jump, landing near the project base in Payerne.
Tougher EU climate target technically, economically feasible, researchers say
EU countries, which must approve the new climate target, are divided. Western and Nordic countries back the more ambitious level and eastern nations refuse to consider bigger cuts before seeing an assessment of the costs.
The researchers said there is “no credible pathway” towards a 55% target for 2030 without a bigger contribution from states such as Poland and Czech Republic that say the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will make climate goals more challenging.
Coronavirus pandemic could be over within 2 years, says hopeful WHO Chief
Tedros also said that the pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change, Xinhua news agency.
“Throughout history, outbreaks and pandemics have changed economies and societies, this one will be no different.”
Noting that the global health criris “has given us a glimpse of our world as it could be: cleaner skies and rivers… Building back better means building back greener”.
California governor calls wildfires ‘deadly moment,’ urges residents to flee
The state has been hit by its worst dry-lightning storms in nearly two decades as close to 12,000 strikes Some 175,000 people have been told to leave their homes.
Madrass HC refuses to allow reopening of Vedanta’s copper smelter
Sterlite copper smelting plant was shut it 2018 due to environmental concerns. The state government subsequently issued a closure order on May 28, 2018, against the plant, days after a protest against Sterlite ended violently with police opening fire on protesters, killing 13 people.