Dubai, UAE--Ten transformative technology solutions could change the way the world powers homes, grows food and secures freshwater, according to a new World Economic Forum report released today. Many of these critical technologies already exist but remain underused. Unlocking their potential as practical, scalable solutions to pressing climate challenges will...
New tech taps oceans to tackle global warming
Scientists from University of California Los Angeles are working on a project aimed at using the oceans as a big sponge for carbon dioxide.‘Flash drought’ frequency increasing due to climate change: study
For the study, published in the journal Science, researchers analyzed a combination of satellite data and ground moisture readings from a period of over 60 years (1951-2014). The researcher, based out of China's Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), warned that the rapid onset of flash droughts gives...
Dutch refinery looks to boost production of sustainable aviation fuel
Sustainable aviation fuels are being made from different sources such as municipal waste, leftovers from the agricultural and forestry industry, crops and plants, and even hydrogen.
UN’s water report: Floods cause $650bn in damages in 19 years
UN Water forum published its report as the first major conference on the issue in nearly a half-century is set to get underway Wednesday in New York. About 10 percent of the world's population lives in a country where water stress (the ratio of water use to water availability) is...‘Rich nations must achieve net zero carbon by 2040’
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on wealthy countries to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality as close as possible to 2040 in order to "defuse the climate time bomb." He made the remark while introducing a capstone report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the...
Food system emissions will add 1°C to earth’s surface temperature by 2100
A major overhaul of the sector - from production to distribution to consumption - could reduce those emissions by more than half even as global population increases, they reported in Nature Climate Change. The global food system accounts for about 15 percent of current warming levels, but only a third...Fight global warming without harming economic growth: COP28 chief
The UAE is pushing the merits of carbon capture -- removing carbon dioxide as fuel is burned, or from the air.2022 fifth warmest year on record, EU climate report says
The last eight years were the warmest. Average temperatures across 2022 -- which saw a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters made more likely and deadly by climate change -- make it the fifth warmest year since records began in the 19th century, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
IEA says energy crunch driving renewables boom
Paris, France— The energy crisis is fuelling an acceleration of the rollout of renewable power, raising hopes for efforts to meet ambitious targets against global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. Total renewables capacity worldwide is set to almost double in the next five years and overtake coal as the...
Multi-disciplinary solutions needed to deal with food crisis and water scarcity in MENA region
It is essential to adopt sustainable water management practices to build resilience, sustain peace and improve the well-being of local populations. Coordinated action is needed urgently to tackle the water crisis in the MENA region, which has reached unprecedented levels, he adds.
‘Historic’ but ‘not enough’: UN COP27 climate summit reactions
The summit drew praise for the "loss and damage" fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the destructive impacts of global warming. But there was also anger over a failure to push further ambition on cutting emissions in order to keep alive the aspirational goal of limiting global warming to...UN COP27 approves “loss and damage” fund
Nations hit by the impact of global warming can now be compensated from the "loss and damage" fund created by the UN's COP27 climate summit. The fund was approved by consensus following two weeks of contentious negotiations over demands by developing nations for rich polluters to compensate them.UN climate talks go into overtime to break deadlock over funding
Representatives from nearly 200 countries have gathered at the COP27 in Egypt for two weeks with the aim of driving forward action on climate change as the world faces a worsening onslaught of extreme floods, heat waves and droughts.Climate leaders call for ‘Paris agreement’ for nature
Dozens of countries will meet next month to try and hammer out a new biodiversity framework to protect animals and plants from destruction by humans, as scientists warn the world is potentially facing its sixth mass extinction event. Only two of the 22 targets in the so-called post-2020 framework have...
UAE launches National Net Zero by 2050 Pathway
The pathway, unveiled at COP27, sets the timeframe and identifies the mechanisms of implementing the UAE Net Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative, introduced in October 2021.
Biden urges world to ‘step up’ climate fight at COP27
His speech came at the halfway point of a two-week COP27 conference in Egypt where rich polluters like the US are under pressure to finally provide the funding developing countries have been promised in the battle against climate change. "The climate crisis is about human security, economic security, environmental security,...
UN unveils satellite-based system to detect methane emissions
The Methane Alert and Response System (MARS) was announced by the UN Environment Programme during the COP27 summit. Methane, emitted by leaks in fossil fuel installations as well as from other human-caused sources like livestock farming and landfills, is responsible for roughly 30% of the global rise in temperatures to...
COP27: Choose climate solidarity or collective suicide, UN chief tells world leaders
Humanity is in "the fight of our lives" as climate change intensifies droughts, floods and heatwaves, UN chief Antonio Guterres warns world leaders in Egypt.Global warming rising at alarming rate, says UN
Greenhouse gases accounting for over 95 percent of warming are at record levels, with methane showing the largest one-year jump ever recorded, the WMO's annual State of the Global Climate found. In the European Alps, glacier melt records have been shattered in 2022, with average thickness losses of between three...
COP27 summit in Egypt reckons with gravest threat to humanity
The already daunting task of decarbonizing the global economy in a few years has been made even harder by a global energy crunch and rapid inflation.Climate activists deface Goya frames at Spain’s Prado
Saturday's stunt in Madrid was the latest increasingly daring action taken by climate activists to grab the headlines, including throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh paintings in London and Rome, and mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet masterpiece.
COP27 hot topic: Funding vulnerable nations to fight global warming
Many emerging economies least to blame for the fossil-fuel gases that stoke global warming, are also among the most exposed to climate impacts, such as worsening drought, floods and cyclones. The UN has asked nations to 'urgently' boost climate funds.
UNESCO says Yellowstone, Kilimanjaro glaciers can vanish by 2050
The UN warning followed a study of 18,600 glaciers at 50 World Heritage sites -- covering around 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) -- which found glaciers at a third of the sites were "condemned to disappear".
Middle East at risk of climate-induced food, water scarcity: Report
Published only days ahead of the UN climate conference in Egypt, the report titled "Living on The Edge" said, by the end of the century, 80 percent of the densely populated cities in the Middle East and North Africa were likely to suffer from heat waves for at least 50...
Saudi Arabia, UAE say global investments required for oil production
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said the world needs to keep investing in oil production, just days before the COP27 climate summit aimed at curbing global warming. Sultan Al Jaber, the head of UAE oil giant ADNOC, warned that under-investment could cause a shock to the world economy.
Climate pledges short of limiting temperature rise to 1.5C: UN Official
Paris, France - International climate pledges remain far off track to limit rising temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a report released by the United Nations Wednesday, less than two weeks ahead of high-stakes negotiations to tackle global warming. The combined climate pledges of more than 190 nations that signed...
GCC insurers adopting sustainable finance practices
Even as only half of the significant insurers in the region are disclosing ESG information, sustainability has gained significant traction in financial services in last few years.Ambitious action required to protect oceans: UN
Oceans produce half the oxygen we breathe, regulate the weather and provide humanity's single largest source of protein.UN meet aims to restore faltering health of global oceans
A long-delayed UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicks off in Lisbon Monday, with thousands of policymakers, experts, and advocates on the case.Rome unveils €650m boost for electric vehicles
"First the pandemic and now the war (in Ukraine) are putting a severe strain on this sector which represents one of the jewels of Italy," said Italy's Economic Development Minister.Scientists’ network plans civil disobedience to highlight climate crisis
The world has seen a crescendo of deadly extreme weather amplified by rising temperatures -- heatwaves, wildfires, flooding, storms.
Qatar signs Global Methane Pledge, to lower emissions by 30 percent
Rapidly reducing methane emissions is the most effective strategy to limit global warming in the near term and keep 1.5 degrees Celsius within reach.
In fair phase-out of oil, gas-rich nations should stop first: Report
For a 50/50 chance of limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C, 19 countries in which per capita GDP would remain above $50,000 without oil and gas revenue must end production by 2034. Included in this tranche are the US, Norway, Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates.
F&B sector in GCC eyes greater sustainability
Tetra Pak Arabia Managing Director Niels Hougaard explains what lies ahead for F&B companies — bith regionally and globally — as they eye new goals.UN reports to lay bare harrowing scale of climate impact
The IPCC report will include a crucial 40-page summary for policymakers, expected to show that devastating scale of climate change impacts is just the beginning.Energy sector methane emissions underreported: report
The International Energy Agency said its latest annual Global Methane Tracker had found that emissions by the energy sector were about 70 percent higher than official government figures.
Iraq signs project to reduce carbon emissions
The emission reduction is expected to take place through upcoming contracts in solar energy field.Most countries may soon see annual heat extremes every two years
The researchers found that 92 percent of 165 countries studied will experience extremely hot annual temperatures every two years.
Climate change 2021: There’s no turning back now
Dedicated experts at COP26 hailed solid even historic advances in beating back the existential threat of global warming.IMF head urges COP26 to ramp up climate action
The world is at a turning point on climate change. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has urged world leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to make strong policies and to cut global emissions to keep global warming to 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius.New Zealand passes law to make banks report climate impact
New Zealand has passed a law that will force banks to reveal the impact of their investments on climate change. The law has been described as a world-first move to make the financial sector's environmental record more transparent.Planned fossil fuel output shatters 1.5C climate target, says UN
The UN's Environment Program said government fossil fuel production plans this decade were "dangerously out of sync" with emissions goals.
UAE announces Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative
The national drive aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, making the UAE the first MENA to do so.
Global warming kills 14% of world’s corals in a decade
Hardest hit were corals in South Asia and the Pacific, around the Arabian Peninsula, and off the coast of Australia.
World airlines commit to ‘net zero’ CO2 emissions by 2050
The world's airlines made a joint pledge Monday to reach "net zero" CO2 by 2050, as the aviation industry ramps up efforts to curb its contribution to global warming. The new commitment comes 12 years after the IATA unveiled its first plan to reduce CO2 emissions.
UN needs another $100trn for SDGs
The Force for Good initiative has said the UN has funding gap of $84-101 trillion in achieving the SDGs.
World on path to 2.7C warming, warns UN chief
Instead of the reductions needed to avoid the worst effects of climate change, global emission are likely to see "a considerable increase" in the years to come.No survivors in Turkey fire-fighting plane crash
The air tragedy came just as Turkey was gaining control over hundreds of wildfires that killed eight people and destroyed swathes of forest along the scenic southern coast
UAE is using drones to zap clouds and create rain
The UAE is making rainfall using drone technology to hit clouds with electricity to combat high temperatures
Adnoc joins international hydrogen council
Adnoc has been granted entry into the Hydrogen Council, through which it expects to produce greener fuel
