World hits streak of record temperatures as UN warns of “climate hell”
Brussels, Belgium/Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU’s climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert “climate hell”. The average global temperature for the 12-month period to the end of May was […]
Australia raises emissions cutting target for 2030
Melbourne, Australia Reuters Australia, under a new Labor government, on Thursday raised its 2030 target for cutting carbon emissions, bringing the country more in line with other developed economies’ Paris climate accord commitments. Australia, one of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, pledged to the United Nations that it would cut carbon emissions by […]
Africa lags on 2030 global goal of gender parity in politics
Nairobi, Kenya Thomson Reuters Foundation Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics by 2030, a European thinktank said on Thursday. The study by Sweden’s International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) found that women occupied 24 per […]
ENVIRONMENT: GOVERNMENTS FACE PRESSURE TO PROTECT NATURE IN BIODIVERSITY “SUPER YEAR”
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on plans for a new global framework to safeguard the Earth’s eco-systems and biodiversity…