Tag: climate change
This is how global warming changes precipitation in different areas – threatening pictures can also include a large positive change | Foreign countries
The story in a nutshell Global warming is changing rainfall in different regions, drying up the Amazon rainforest and increasing rainfall in the Sahel and the Arabian Peninsula. The Sahel…
Is a cup of coffee approaching 5 euros? ‘Already 7.50 euros in some places’
“Coffee prices are rising because of climate change,” says coffee expert Bregje Deben, affiliated with Utrecht University. “The extreme weather conditions (drought, extreme frost, floods) affect the development and processing…
Analysis: Western countries should pay poor countries as much climate finance as possible so that they can save themselves | Policy
The controversial issue of the Baku climate meeting, i.e. the amount of climate finance, depends on how quickly emissions decrease, writes environmental reporter Hanna Eskonen. Hanna Eskonen environmental reporter –…
300 billion dollars in sham aid, denounce NGOs and negotiators
Developed countries therefore committed in Baku to further finance vulnerable countries threatened by climate change to the tune of at least 300 billion dollars per year by 2035. The previous…
Fanny Petitbon: “The agreement obtained by forceps at COP 29 is a failure, only crumbs”
Curtain in Baku, Azerbaijan of the 29 COP which ends with a mixed agreement. A minimal and totally unsatisfactory agreement on the question of financing for developing countries, victims of…
at least $300 billion in annual climate finance for developing countries
At the end of two weeks of heated negotiations, countries from around the world meeting in Baku approved on Sunday, November 24, an agreement providing at least $300 billion in…
The UN climate meeting progressed chaotically towards the last hours | News in brief
Non-governmental organizations urged developing countries to leave the negotiations without an agreement rather than accept a bad agreement. The overlong UN climate meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, proceeded to the decisive…
Baku climate conference ending in disappointment – funding falling short of target | News in brief
Poor and climate change-prone countries are getting only a fraction of the support they had hoped for. The ongoing climate meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan is coming to an end. According…
The EU rejects the draft decision presented at the Baku climate conference | News in brief
The European Union cannot accept the draft presented in Baku as the final document of the COP29 climate meeting, says the EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. According to him, no…
children are most exposed to environmental damage, warns the Defender of Rights
How to protect children, the first victims of climate change? According to the UN, if the trend continues, eight times more children around the world will be exposed to extreme…