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Workers replanting forests on Hainan island in China. Photo: GREG BAKER / AP

Back to nature. That’s what scientists are pleading for the world to return to. Without a functioning natural cycle, the earth cannot be habitable in the future.

These include oceans, rainforests, grasslands and mangrove swamps – ecosystems that feed billions of people, produce clean water and provide us with materials to protect ourselves with, writes British The Guardian.

Planting trees to protect buildings from heat, restoring wetlands to create “mushroom cities” that protect against flooding, and planting mangroves to dampen storm surges in the coastal region can be some ways to reduce damage.

According to the researchers, the solutions are cheap and rarely used ways to protect humanity from climate collapse in the 21st century. Using them would ensure access to food and waterShow more

Pope Francis. (Archive image) Photo: TT

A pneumonia does not stop the Pope. He is traveling to Dubai to attend the COP28 climate conference.

Pope Francis canceled his commitments both Saturday and Sunday, according to the Vatican, the Pope had a “mild flu”.

Instead, the Pope gave his blessing via live television from the chapel in Vatican City – through a priest.

Now it turns out that the 86-year-old has suffered from pneumonia, but on Saturday the idea is that he will give his speech at COP28, just as planned.

– In addition to war, the world is threatened by another great danger: climate change, which risks life on earth, especially for future generations, the Pope said according to the priest’s reading, AP writes.

Update: Shortly after 7:30 p.m., the news came that the Pope is canceling his trip to Dubai after all due to illness.

International Aviation Organization, ICAO, has agreed on net zero emissions in the aviation industry by 2050 Photo: Agneta Elmegård

On November 24, a framework and a global vision of 5 percent greenhouse gas reduction through alternative aviation fuels by 2030 was adopted, TT reports. It happened at an aviation conference in Dubai with ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) member countries.

The international aviation organization is now concretizing how alternative aviation fuels will contribute to aviation’s long-term climate goal, net zero in 2050, which was adopted last year.

Ulrika Raab from the Maritime and Aviation department at the Swedish Transport Agency has represented Sweden in the negotiations in the ICAO environmental committee and during the conference on sustainable aviation fuels.

– Even though we had hoped for a higher global level of ambition, it is good that ICAO has gathered around a way forward. It is an important part of reaching the aviation sector’s long-term climate goals, which are in line with the Paris Agreement, says Ulrika Raab.

Sweden has a dialogue with like-minded countries, above all in the Nordics and Europe. We have also collaborated with countries in other regions in the work for a global framework.

An earlier flood in the UK. (Archive image) Photo: AP

Floods in Great Britain have put several crops with grain under water, among other things potatoes have rotted, writes British The Independent. In Spain, the problem has been the opposite in its olive groves: drought and heatwave. This has caused the price of olive oil to rise by 50 percent. Sugar, rice and tomatoes have also been affected by extreme weather, where the price has risen by around 20 percent.

Now a new British study shows that the cost of food for a family in the country has increased by 605 pounds, almost 8,000 kroner, in two years. The reason is climate change, according to the researchers.

– Climate change is an increasingly prominent element that is one of the driving forces behind food inflation. In 2022, energy costs dominated the headlines. Now that energy prices have fallen, climate change has emerged as a bigger driver of food inflation in the past two years, Professor Wyn Morgan of the University of Sheffield told the paper.