Welcome to boiling world and climate extreme planet. The world is on track to cross the 1.5°C global warming threshold, likely within the next few years, according to a major new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released today (2/9). Limiting Overshoot finds that even the most optimistic scenario now points to a peak temperature rise of 1.8°C.
Six months since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent shockwaves through global energy markets, 350.org is warning that households around the world are paying the price of continued dependence on volatile fossil fuels. The Strait of Hormuz is a critical global energy chokepoint, carrying roughly a quarter of the world’s seaborne oil and a fifth of its LNG.
A glacial collapse that resulted in a flash flood in the Nepal-Tibet border shows that climate delay is proving to be deadlier and more destructive than world leaders admit, climate groups said. Disasters like this are becoming more frequent and more deadly as the Himalayas warm and glaciers destabilize.
Climate campaigners warned that record high temperatures and a strong El Niño is resulting in severe drought in many countries, hitting crop yields and raising food prices. 350.org urged governments to move fast to protect farming communities and consumers, and mobilize the necessary funds through higher, permanent taxes on fossil fuel profits.
ClientEarth, together with ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) and RECOFTC Indonesia, organised a Regional Knowledge Sharing of ASEAN Guiding Principles for Effective Social Forestry Legal Frameworks (AGP) workshop in Jakarta on 4-5 August. Hosted by Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry, the event aimed to improve the effectiveness, transparency, and inclusiveness of social forestry governance across ASEAN Member States.
Scientists estimate that emissions from just five fossil fuel corporations - BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and TotalEnergies - were sufficient to cause around one in four of the heatwaves recorded globally between 2000 and 2023. Those same five companies are now announcing another blockbuster quarter of fossil fuel profits.
