Poor countries the smallest emitters but the most vulnerable to climate change. Climate change caused by CO 2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said Wednesday. But […] Click here to view original […]

WASHINGTON, April 19 (Reuters) – The World Bank on Friday said that 11 countries have pledged to contribute over $11 billion to new hybrid capital and portfolio guarantee instruments designed to expand the bank’s financing capacity by $70 billion over a decade to tackle climate change, pandemics and other […] Click here to view original

Climate Change Commission Vice Chairperson and Executive Director Robert Borje (PNA file photo by Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos) MANILA – The Climate Change Commission (CCC) on Friday night underscored the need to ramp up the implementation of national plans geared towards building the country’s resilience amid the worsening climate change. […] Click here to view original

“If you want to see what the cutting edge of next-gen clean energy innovation looks like, it’d be hard to find a place better than Texas,” Bill Gates wrote in a March post on his website titled, “I’m in Texas to see the future.” Gates, the liberal Microsoft founder […] Click here to view original

A flooded street with a bent sign. A small tractor clears water from a business as floodwaters block a street in Barre, Vt., in July 2023. Heavy flooding last year devastated many Vermont communities. Now, state lawmakers are backing a “climate Superfund” bill that would force fossil fuel companies […] Click here to view original

A driver walks along a flooded highway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates April 17. Photo: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images The record " rain bomb " that struck Dubai and other nearby Gulf states on Tuesday dumped more than two years’ worth of rain on the global financial and […] Click here to view original