Chloé Farand, Author at Climate Home News
WEBChloé Farand. Chloé Farand is Climate Home News’ senior reporter. Her work has appeared in national publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the i paper and the BBC. Before joining Climate Home News, she worked for the investigative environmental outlet DeSmog UK and contributed to Business Green.
Mia Mottley: the 'fearless' leader pushing a global settlement for …
WEBNov 18, 2021 · Barbados’ prime minister Mia Amor Mottley made her mark on the Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow with a rip-roaring speech telling the leaders of the world’s largest economies to “try harder” to avert catastrophic climate change. A 2C overheated world “is a death sentence,” she said. The first female leader of her country, Mottley is ...
Nine must-read climate change stories of 2021 from around the …
WEBDec 28, 2021 · Photo: Alejandra Loreto. 5.Ocean fire exposes weak regulation of Mexico’s oil and gas sector. In July, a photo of the sea on fire in the Gulf of Mexico went viral, becoming an emblem of all that is wrong with the global economy’s dependence on fossil fuels. Isabelle Gerretsen looked at the story behind the image.
FAO report backs growth of livestock industry despite emissions
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The report’s findings, once approved, will be fed into a three-part roadmap for bringing agricultural emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.. The first instalment, published at the COP28 climate summit, was viewed internally by some FAO experts as a generic placeholder which largely followed an industry-friendly agenda.
Island states back Vanuatu’s quest for climate justice at the UN
WEBMay 24, 2022 · Island states back Vanuatu’s quest for climate justice at the UN. Pacific and Caribbean nations have joined Vanuatu in calling for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on countries’ legal obligations to protect people from climate harm. Formed of more than 80 islands stretched across …
Brazil’s environment minister investigated for illegal logging cover …
WEBMay 25, 2021 · The Brazilian Supreme Court has ordered police to investigate whether environment minister Ricardo Salles covered up for criminals cutting down the Amazon. The court said it had suspicion of the existence of a “serious scheme” to facilitate the export of illegal forest products. Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro is under pressure to sack ...
Why it’s wrong to label the Kyoto Protocol a disaster - Climate …
WEBOct 6, 2016 · The Kyoto Protocol has come to symbolise many things, including a contest between a “Kyoto top-down” and “Paris bottom-up” image, to which recent narratives would tend to add “top-down = bad” and “bottom-up = good” respectively. The real distinction is, however, at best very fuzzy. Kyoto Protocol: 10 years of the world’s first ...
Mangrove loss threatens Kenyan coastal communities and the …
WEBSep 22, 2016 · In 1985, Kenya had 55,280 hectares of mangroves. Fast forward 25 years and in 2010 the coverage was down to 45,590 hectares. “The annual carbon sequestration rate for coastal wetlands is greater than 10 times that of forest systems,” says Sutton-Grier. Because of this, even though coastal wetlands are fairly small strips of land, they ...
We can grow more climate-friendly rice - Climate Home News
WEBDec 7, 2019 · We can grow more climate-friendly rice. Sponsored content: Rice contributes as much carbon as aviation. But rather than stop growing it, we can make it less damaging. Rice feeds half of the world’s population on a daily basis, but it is also an important driver of global warming. That’s why 48% of the countries negotiating at the UNFCCC ...
UK pledges to make scaling up adaptation finance a priority at G7 …
WEBJan 4, 2021 · UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed said Cop26 had to provide a “major breakthrough on adaptation and resilience”. She called on all donor countries to commit to directing at least 50% of their climate finance towards adaptation before the G7 meeting in June. She urged the US, Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, France and …