Expo Live, a legacy project of Expo 2020 Dubai, is on the lookout for start-ups searching for concrete solutions to the climate crisis and combat global warming. Selected companies will be awarded a $50,000 grant for work related to reforestation, reduction of greenhouse gases or improving agricultural productivity. Successful innovators will have the opportunity to display their […]
Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, may have slowed down efforts to tackle methane emissions from its energy sector as it seeks new export markets for its products amid Western sanctions. Before the war broke out on February 24 last year, Russian oil and gas exporters — under pressure from European customers — were investing in equipment […]
Scientists studying Antarctica’s vast Thwaites Glacier — nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier — say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in the Nature journal showed on Wednesday. Thwaites, which is roughly the size of Florida, represents more than half a metre of global sea level rise potential and could destabilise […]
When the UAE assumes the Cop28 presidency this November, one goal is paramount: mobilising private investment. To keep the Paris Agreement’s warming target of 2ºC on track, while limiting industrial levels to 1.5 ºC, the UN estimates that between $4 trillion and $6 trillion of investment in low-carbon infrastructure will be needed every year. This would […]
The Cop28 summit must galvanise countries to act against climate change, the head of the UAE’s delivery committee has said. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, convened the committee to discuss preparations for the summit that will take place from November 30 to December 12. As host country, the UAE is determined […]
Cop27 was held last November in Egypt, but already intense preparations are being drawn up around the world by governments, activists and corporations for this year’s Cop28 in the UAE. South Asia, as a whole, has become an increasingly significant region at Cop, but it is also increasingly fragmented when it comes to policy at the global […]
The UAE is stepping up its mission to make it rain after nearly doubling its annual number of cloud-seeding flights in the past six years. While large parts of the country are braced for heavy downpours on Wednesday and Thursday, efforts to induce more rainfall in a largely arid climate remain crucial. Mariam Al Mheiri, Minister of Climate Change […]
The World Economic Forum will join forces with the UAE to drive efforts to tackle climate change as the country gears up to host the Cop28 environment summit later this year. Borge Brende, President of the WEF, announced that the organisation will work with the UAE Cop28 presidency “to accelerate public-private solutions for climate and nature” ahead of the […]
As climate change wreaks havoc, plastic pollution blights oceans and biodiversity losses pile up, it is all too easy to fear for the future. But amid the gloomy forecasts there is hope on the horizon as society bands together to successfully tackle issues that once plagued the planet. From acid rain to precipitous declines in whale populations, progress has […]
Three times as many people are being driven from their homes by climate change and extreme weather than by conflict, the UN refugee agency has said, with Africa and South Asia bearing the brunt of the crisis. Andrew Harper, UNHCR special adviser on climate action, said renewable energy was a basic necessity that was “as […]
