IPBES: Climate Change Is a Key Driver for Species Extinction
UN Climate Change News, 7 May 2019 – Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, and climate change is amongst the five direct drivers of change in nature with the largest relative global impacts so far. This is one key finding of a…
Recent Carbon Emissions Will Affect The Atmosphere For 10,000 Years, Steven Chu Says
Greenhouse-gas emitting is a lot like cigarette smoking, said former Energy Secretary Steven Chu: you can do it for decades before the cancer shows up, and then it’s very difficult to recover. The Nobel Prize winning physicist lamented in a University of Chicago lecture that “no one explains”…
Green revolution for the world’s shipping fleet comes not a moment too soon
New regulations restricting the use of high-sulphur fuel have oil markets in a panic. But shippers are coming up with innovative solutions to power their vessels – essential for the future given that ships account for 90 per cent of world trade Out of sight,…
We Have Five Years To Save Ourselves From Climate Change, Harvard Scientist Says
The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn’t been seen in 12 million years, a Harvard scientist said in Chicago Thursday, and this pollution is rapidly pushing the climate back to its state in the Eocene Epoch, more than 33 million years ago, when there was no…
Venice is facing multiple tourism threats and many Venetians now want controls on visitors
They used to say “see Venice and die”. The impossible city-on-the-sea has long been a bucket list staple for travellers lured by its water and its stone. But now Venetians are questioning whether the city itself will survive long enough for coming generations to experience….
“Venice does not have to die”
The appeal to the Council of Europe will be at the center of a press conference that took place Tuesday March 12 in Strasbourg with Parliament member Cécile Kyenge, author of an inquiry focused on the crucial issues for the life of the city of…
Global Environment Outlook 6
Published in time for the Fourth United Nations Environmental Assembly, UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment Goals, such…
The globe’s biggest maritime shipping company is abandoning fossil fuels
The world’s largest maritime shipping company is slowly ditching fossil fuels, and in doing so has thrown down a challenge for the rest of the industry to follow suit. Denmark-based AP Moller Maersk this week said it will cut its carbon emissions completely by 2050. That’s a…
Environmental impacts of shipping
At today’s turning point in the history of human civilization, we are now called as a nation with a profound history of centuries to protect nature, to leave our mark on the planet, being one of the greatest Marine forces in the history of this…