Climate news/2022
This page brings together global news 2022, on Climate action, highlighting innovative strategies and community efforts that recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism in response to climate emergency. Learn about how communities positively impact through different projects and collaborations.
First solar canal project is a win for water, energy, air and climate in California, The Conversation (Dec 22, 2022) - Argentina's record-breaking 2022 heatwave made '60 times more likely' by climate change, carbonbrief.org (Dec 21, 2022)
- The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance now has 10 core members (Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Quebec, Sweden, Wales, and Washington State), two associate members (California and New Zealand), and five "friends of BOGA" (Chile, Fiji, Finland, Italy, and Luxembourg)., beyondoilandgasalliance.org (Nov 16, 2022) — BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production, led by the governments of Denmark and Costa Rica
- ‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
- Barcelona students to take mandatory climate crisis module from 2024, The Guardian (Nov 12, 2022)
- Lula’s victory in Brazil comes just in time to save the Amazon – can he do it?, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Its leaders anticipating a coming time of floods and fires, the Chinese eco-state is being built, shaping the rest of our century, The Daily Alternative (Oct 24, 2022)
- Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022)
- Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues, The Conversation (Oct 17, 2022)
- Portugal: Accelerate rights-based climate and environmental action, says UN expert, ohchr.org (Sep 27, 2022) — Portuguese youth are among the most concerned and outspoken in the world about the climate crisis. “To fulfil their rights, the government must give them a seat at the table, listen to their concerns and act upon their recommendations.”
- Australia sets new climate target in landmark bill, BBC News (Sep 09, 2022)
- How Pakistan floods are linked to climate change, BBC News (Sep 02, 2022)
- Climate change and the French: The summer that ended indifference, lemonde.fr (Aug 22, 2022)
- Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst, BBC News (Aug 14, 2022)
- Humanity can’t equivocate any longer. This is a climate emergency. Rebecca Solnit and Terry Tempest Williams, The Guardian (Jul 28, 2022) — The climate emergency has been declared over and over. The future the scientists warned us about is here, now
- Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions surrounding the Po River amid the worst drought in 70 years, BBC News (Jul 05, 2022)
- Here are the most effective things you can do to fight climate change, The Conversation (Jul 01, 2022) — Cutting driving and flying are two of the most eco-friendly actions you can take.
- New Australian PM signals climate policy change, BBC News (May 22, 2022)
- Climate change swells odds of record India, Pakistan heatwaves, BBC News (May 18, 2022)
- Delhi suffers at 49C as heatwave sweeps India, BBC News (May 16, 2022)
- Young Indian farmers are turning to an ancient crop to fight water stress and climate change, The Conversation (May 11, 2022)
- Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown, The Guardian (May 11, 2022)
- Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited, The Conversation (Apr 28, 2022) — Fair deal for field workers needed
- ‘Defending life:’ Indigenous way of life imperative to solving climate crisis, Global Voices (Apr 27, 2022) — Fighting climate change is not a lost cause for Nahuatl journalist Miryam Vargas. Written by Melissa Vida
- Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption, The Daily Alternative (Apr 25, 2022)
- It’s over for fossil fuels: IPCC spells out what’s needed to avert climate disaster, The Guardian (Apr 04, 2022) — The third part of the panel’s report makes clear a century of rising emissions must end before 2025
- Islington Climate Emergency Centre – a movement is growing, realmedia.press (Mar 29, 2022) — "The science is clear. It's not those fighting to put food on the table who need to fix this mess, right? It's the high consuming communities, high consuming individuals who need to act furthest and fastest." Tom Bailey, TakeTheJump.org
- Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
- Concrete fuels climate change – but there’s a nature-friendly way to defend coasts from rising seas, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- A billion of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements – here’s what they face, The Conversation (Mar 22, 2022)
- 'Madness' to turn to fossil fuels because of Ukraine war, UN Secretary General, BBC News (Mar 21, 2022)
- As sea levels rise, coastal megacities will need more than flood barriers, The Conversation (Mar 15, 2022)
- The floods have killed at least 21 Australians. Adapting to a harsher climate is now a life-or-death matter, The Conversation (Mar 08, 2022)
- Climate change in Vietnam: impacts and adaptation, The Conversation (Mar 08, 2022)
- Six key lifestyle changes can help avert the climate crisis, study finds, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2022)
- Climate change: IPCC report warns of ‘irreversible’ impacts of global warming, BBC News (Feb 28, 2022)
- How to capture satellite images in your backyard – and contribute to a snapshot of the climate crisis, The Conversation (Feb 23, 2022)
- Average carbon footprint in the top 1% was more than 75 times higher than that in the bottom 50%, study finds, nature.com (Feb 14, 2022)
- Cities must listen to people to find solutions for climate impacts: stories from Cape Town, The Conversation (Feb 14, 2022)
- Lessons from New York: What makes a community turn against climate adaptation?, Grist (Feb 08, 2022) — To build a sea wall, you first have to build community trust.
- Past seven years hottest on record - EU satellite data, BBC News (Jan 10, 2022)
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