The G20 talks kicking off in India this weekend will take place during what may well be the world’s hottest year ever. New Delhi, the city where talks are happening, is still recovering from devastating floods. The meeting—of the world’s 19 wealthiest countries and the European Union, together responsible for nearly 80 percent of global power-sector emissions—comes at the outset of a summer marked by record heat, ongoing extreme floods, and deadly wildfires. Those climate-fueled events have hit
A special report on loss and damage from the IPCC will capture the significant amount of scientific research being carried out and published now on different aspects of tackling climate change.
In a new report, the World Meteorological Organisation said there was a 66 per cent chance that global temperatures would breach the crucial 1.5 degrees Celsius-mark in the next five years. El Nino and human activities are the likely reasons for pushing the mercury levels into ‘uncharted territory’
The Earth stands on the precipice of a climatic cataclysm as scientists predict an ominous 66% chance of crossing the 1.5C global warming threshold by 2027, a historical first driven by human activities and a potential El Niño event., Technology & Science News, Times Now