News of climate change

ENVIRONMENT

Climate crisis spawns tsunami of greenwashing

22-01-2020 16:52 From big tech to big oil, global corporations are churning out climate action plans to reduce carbon footprints – but many of their ambitious pledges are more greenwashing than green, experts caution.

A YEAR IN REVIEW

2019 – the year the world woke up to the climate emergency?

28-12-2019 09:44 Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill – armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around the world dragged the climate emergency into the mainstream in 2019.

EDITORIAL

Climate changing faster than politicians

19-10-2019 13:49 If climate change (spotlighted as the “defining issue of our times”) clearly topped the agenda at last month’s United Nations General Assembly, it is being given extremely short shrift at tomorrow’s presidential debate.

by Eugenia Iglesias

VEGETARIANISM

Vegetarians gaining ground in carnivorous Argentina

19-10-2019 09:35 Whisper it: Increasing numbers of young Argentines are turning their back on meat and keeping it green.

ENVIRONMENT

Environment drops off radar after four years of contradictions

19-10-2019 08:09 Experts say the Macri administration is trying to have it both ways when it comes to environmental policies. And worryingly, the outlook doesn’t look much better under a potential government led by Alberto Fernández.

by Fermin Koop

Economy

How can Argentina achieve sustainable economic growth?

18-10-2019 23:09 Ambassadors from four Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden — gathered with business executives and government officials Friday to discuss how Argentina can achieve the lofty goals set by the United Nations on sustainable development.

Climate Change

Scientists brave crisis to continue research at Venezuela's last glacier

24-09-2019 18:29 The rapid pace of glacial retreat over the past century and a half, accelerated by human activities and burning of fossil fuels, creates new urgency for scientists to understand how freshly exposed rock forms new soil and eventually new ecosystems.

BLOOMBERG OPINION

The massive cost of not adapting to climate change

13-09-2019 12:11 The world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.

Climate Crisis

Earth's future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

22-08-2019 15:01 Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland's giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.

BLOOMBERG – FEATURE

Chile's glaciers may have a bigger problem than climate change

15-08-2019 10:34 Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles, but the abundant glaciers that are the source of that precious commodity are melting fast. That’s not just an ecological disaster in the making – it’s rapidly becoming an economic and political dilemma for the government of Latin America’s richest nation.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The knife-edge path our world is on could lead to disaster in just 11 years

20-10-2018 08:43 The story is not the same this time around. Let’s just say: this is serious.

by Andrew Graham-Yooll

CLIMATE CHANGE

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

13-10-2018 09:19 IPCC report warns that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster, with its authors calling for a complete transformation not just of the global economy, but of society too.