The four-year drought has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with water shortages that would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study. Photo: AP
Climate anxiety is increasing. Ahead of COP28, searches for questions related to the condition also increased, according to Google data shared with BBC 100 Women.
According to several studies, women are more affected by climate anxiety than men. Several fires, floods and droughts around the world are just some of the visible signs of climate change, writes the BBC.
Climate anxiety is defined by catastrophic thoughts about the future, anxiety, worry, hopelessness and/or depression.
Eight out of ten children and young people have climate anxiety. Three quarters are afraid of the future and over half feel let down by their governments. Over half believe that humanity is doomed. This shows a survey from the British University of Bath in which 10,000 young people around the world participated, writes Research & progress.
The study was published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health 2021.
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Kristofer Forssblad-Olsson
08.13
Climate policy has long been inadequate, but now it is catastrophic, the researchers write. In the picture Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokthari and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Photo: TT, Stella/Alamy (montage)
Today, when the UN climate conference COP28 begins in Dubai, 420 scientists write a joint appeal on Aftonbladet Debatt:
“We are speaking out against a climate policy that ignores consensus research that shows that the transition must take place now. And we call on more citizens to organize and demand that the politicians step up,” they write.
Learn the full call here.
Christina Nordh
yesterday14.08
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
Christina Nordh
Tuesday 16.31
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.
Agneta Elmegård
Monday10.43
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.
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I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
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We have to back off and live more in the countryside and get the opportunity to do that too. Industry, politics, power, money ?? Which person is worth more than 1 million kroner in salary?
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.