Asia must rapidly cut fossil fuel subsidies and plow more money into a clean energy transition to avoid catastrophic climate change that puts its own development at risk, according to a new report on Thursday, April 27, 2023, from the Asian Development Bank.
The United Nations and Pakistan issued an appeal on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, for $160 million in emergency funding to help millions affected by record−breaking floods that have killed more than 1,160 people since mid−June.
Tinkering with the planet’s air to cool Earth’s ever−warming climate is inching closer to reality enough so that two different high−powered groups one of scientists and one of former world leaders are trying to come up with ethics and governing guidelines.
The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
Official plans call for boosting coal production capacity by 300 million tons this year, according to news reports. That is equal to 7% of last year’s output of 4.1 billion tons, which was an increase of 5.7% over 2020.