As a strong El Niño develops on top of already record global temperatures, leading climate scientists and policy experts warned today that media coverage attributing extreme weather primarily to El Niño is missing the real story, and that the mounting cost of climate disasters is falling hardest on the people least responsible for causing them.
Climate change is not only an environmental challenge, but also a challenge of inclusion, resilience, governance, and livelihoods. Those most vulnerable to climate impacts must be part of the conversation.
The research shows that fossil fuels produced by the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Saudi Aramco and Shell, have directly intensified and increased the frequency of heatwaves across the globe.
The UNFCCC secretariat is choosing to censor words like genocide, occupation, and siege—as Israel starves, bombs, and massacres an entire population.
Majority of U.S. voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of climate change.
For COP28 to successfully safeguard the future of people and planet, the final text needs to explicitly call for an unequivocal fossil fuel phaseout.
