Hawaii, the Islands State of the United States is being seriously impacted by climate change
Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and sea lever rise are the main effects of climate change on Hawai’i (alternative spelling). According to BBC, BBC.com, extreme drought is considered to have triggered the massive wildfire in Hawaii in 2023. At the time, it concluded that “14% of the state is suffering from severe…
Small Island States are taking their climate change grievances to court
Small Island States took a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in the Hague, Netherlands, in December 2024, seeking its opinion as to wether or not small countries can seek redress from big greenhouse gas emitting countries for…
Small Island Developing States are especially vulnerable to climate climate. They emit a small amount of carbon dioxide but suffer the most from climate change
Small Island Developing States are impacted in many ways by the changing climate. They are impacted, for example, by heatwaves,…
Climate change is real, the work of the IPCC clearly shows that climate change is nothing but real
The intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 and its the agency within the United Nations (UN), that is tasked with the…
5 economic sectors that contribute the most to climate change are Transportation, Electricity, Industry, Residential and Commercial buildings and Agriculture.
Sectors such as Transportation, Electricity, Industry, Residential and commercial properties and Agriculture are among the main greenhouse gas emitters in the world. For example, according…
The world experienced record-breaking heat in 2024
The world experienced its hottest year, so far, in 2024. Using figures from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) The Guardian.com concluded “that 2024 was…
Global warming, climate change and cold snowy winters.
Carbon dioxide, methane and other gases are released into the world’s atmosphere when fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal are burned to provide energy…
Politics may be hampering efforts to adequately address climate change
The United Nations (UN) and others, have been proclaiming loudly for many years, that carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere,…
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The United States and climate change
Climate change events that present the most urgent and severe challenges for the United States (US) are heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes…
The Trump Administration and climate change
President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement in January 2025, the same month he came back to office for a…
With the US stepping back there are calls for China to assume climate leadership
China is far ahead of other countries in the production and use of renewable energy and in an article in…
China and climate change
China is the world’s second most populous country. It has a well integrated and extensive industrial manufacturing economy and is…
India. The air pollution, the heatwaves and the floods.
More human beings are living in India than in any other country and it is probably among the top 5…
Japan and climate change
Japan is relatively small, geographically, consisting of a combination of several small island territories. Despite its size, it is well…
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Europe and its share of climate related challenges
Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, floods and other climate related issues, have been posing major problems for European countries. For example, widespread…
Germany and climate change
Floods, heatwaves and wildfires are some of the major climate change impacts on Germany. Most recently the floods of late…
France, the intense heatwaves and the floods. Features of climate change
Climate change severely affects France mostly, it seems, in the form of heatwaves and floods. In the publication climaterealityproject.org, an…
In Spain, due to climate change, heatwaves triggered massive floods in November 2024 and massive wildfires in August 2025.
Heatwaves have contributed to horrific climate events in Spain, floods in 2024 and wildfires in 2025. Heatwaves can cause excess…
The climate change impact on the UK is severe
Heavy rainfalls, floods, heatwaves, droughts and wildfires are some of the major climate change challenges in the United Kingdom (UK), and since January of this…
Climate change impacts on Canada
Climate change affects Canada mainly in the form of heatwaves, droughts, floods and wildfires. The intensity of these events has…
Canada and the wildfires
For almost all of the second half of 2023, in what was one of Canada’s hottest years, the country experienced…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and climate laws are now being significantly curtailed by the Trump administration
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was formed in 1970 and according to its Website, “the mission of EPA…
The Trump Administration wants to reduce the climate change role of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has a great deal of responsibility to oversee and regulate the country’s Oceans and Atmosphere. According…
Australia and Climate change
Heatwaves, heavy rainfalls that cause massive floods and wildfires, (called bushfires locally), are some of the main features of the climate change impacts on Australia….
Africa and the effects of climate change
Heatwaves, Floods, droughts and heatwaves are the main difficulties climate change poses in Africa. According to the World Meteorological Organization, WMO.int, these are made worst…
Nigeria’s main climate change challenges
Currently, the most severe climate issues affecting Nigeria are heatwaves and floods. Based on a report by carbonbrief.org, beginning in…
South Africa and a changing climate
From the standpoint of climate change, floods and droughts are having the most immediate impacts on the lives of South…
Media coverage of climate change news is not sufficient in Africa
Media coverage of climate change issues does not reach the level that is equal to the threat that climate change…
For Brazil, floods seem to pose the biggest climate change challenge
Like most other countries Brazil has experienced the varied effects of climate change but the devastating floods that occurred in…
The Amazon Rainforest and its importance to the world’s climate
The Amazon Rainforest is considered to be the largest single tropical rainforest on earth, most of it is located in Brazil, but it also reaches…
Dominican Republic and its experience with climate change
Climate change is having a big effect on the Dominican Republic. Hurricanes or fierce tropical storms, floods and Droughts are…
Colombia and its climate challenges
The main areas of climate concern in Colombia are Droughts, wildfires, floods and deforestation. 2024 saw periods of intense droughts…
Oil producing countries: The peaceful coexistence of oil, gas and renewable energy
All major oil producing countries, except Iran, have ratified the Paris agreement. This means that even though the use of their main export item is…
Agriculture and climate change
An article written for the ‘United Nations Academic Impact‘ (UNAI), by John Roy Porter, a Professor of agriculture and climate change at the University of…
Climate change and water in the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa region has long been considered the hottest in the world and it is therefore no surprise, that water scarcity…
Water and climate change
Lack of water causes droughts and droughts are sometimes responsible for wildfires, among other things. On the other hand too…
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Climate change impacts on the Oceans
A large portion of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and heat, is absorbed by the Ocean, therefore the Ocean plays…
Climate mitigation and adaptation
Climate mitigation involves the various methods employed to reduce greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, and its eventual conversion into greenhouse…
The financial cost of climate change adaptation.
Climate change effects like heatwaves, floods, wildfires sea level rise, and others, all put additional financial burden on countries. They…
Climate change and home insurance
Home insurance gives confidence to the homeowner that if the house is damaged or destroyed by events outside the homeowner’s control, then the insurer will…
The importance of Biodiversity
In general terms, biodiversity refers to the variety of living things or species that collectively live on, and in largely different forms, share the planet’s…
Ecosystems
In plain terms, an ecosystem is the combined diverse things or elements that sustain the life of a living biological…
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Glaciers and the fresh water they supply are threatened by climate change
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in courier.unesco.org, advised in January, 2025 that “glaciers are melting at…
Countries that are signatories to the Paris agreement are required to work in collaboration with each other to fulfill the agreement’s mandate
By ratifying the Paris Agreement individual countries have acknowledged that climate change is real and is primarily caused by humanity’s…
Celebrities are playing an important role in combating climate change
Many Celebrities are putting pressure on governments to do more to address the climate crisis including demanding more legislative action…
The world’s youth and climate change activism
The world’s young people, by their activism, are playing one of the most important roles in fostering global climate awareness…
Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the Private Sector are playing important roles in combating climate change
Apart from the efforts of the United Nations and its member countries, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the general Private Sector…
Some big Banks suddenly moved away from associating with the United Nations climate lending initiatives
At COP26, (see The Paris Agreement), in Glasgow Scotland, in November 2021, a United Nations financial program, called the Glasgow…