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,…
Glaciers and the fresh water they provide 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…
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…
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…
Colombia and its climate change challenges
The main areas of climate change concern in Colombia are droughts, wildfires, floods and deforestation. 2024 saw periods of intense…
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…
Spain: 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 cause excess moisture…
Some big banks leaving the United Nations climate lending initiatives
On 21 April 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland, a United Nations financial program called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero (GFANZ)…
Hawaii marches big oil companies to court to recover costs due to climate change impact
A lawsuit by the city of Honolulu (together with some local agencies), seeking financial damages, was brought in March 2020…
Hawaii is being seriously impacted by climate change
Heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, sea level rise, and floods are among the main effects of climate change in Hawaii. According to…
What is climate change?
The United Nations (UN) was formed after World War 11 in 1945 by 50countries initially, today membership has grown to 193 countries, so basically all countries of the world are now members of the UN.
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,…
Small Island States are especially vulnerable to climate change
Small Island Developing States are impacted in many ways by the changing climate. They are impacted, for example, by heatwaves,…
Australia and Climate change
Heatwaves, heavy rainfalls that cause massive floods and wildfires (sometimes called bushfires by locals), are some of the main features…
South Africa and a changing climate
Floods and droughts appear to be having the most immediate and severe climate-related impacts on the lives of South Africans….
Africa and the effects of climate change
Heatwaves, floods and droughts are the main difficulties climate change poses in Africa. According to the World Meteorological Organization, WMO.int,…
The Amazon Rainforest and its importance to the world’s climate
The Amazon Rainforest is considered to be the largest tropical rainforest on earth, most of it is located in Brazil,…
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…
Countries that sign the Paris Agreement are required to work together
By ratifying the Paris Agreement, individual countries have acknowledged that climate change is real and is primarily caused by humanity’s…
What is the Paris Agreement?
The Paris Agreement comes up in most conversations about climate change. For those who are just being introduced to climate…
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