Environment

2022 confirmed as one of warmest years on record: WMO

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Sunset along the coast of Erie, Pennsylvania, in the USA.

Hawaii’s Kilauea Erupts Again

That changed Thursday when officials at the U.S. Geological Survey said Kilauea had erupted again and posted photographs of the lava flow at the volcano’s summit.

IUCN Restoration Barometer documents extensive ecosystem restoration across 18 countries

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published its first Restoration Barometer report, on December 16, documenting that investments of $26bn across 18 countries have brought 14 million hectares of degraded landscapes – an area about the size of Greece – under restoration.

Sports organisations commit to safeguard nature under new framework

More than twenty sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a founding partner, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, signed the first-ever Sports for Nature Framework on December 16. Signatories pledge to adhere to four key principles that will safeguard nature and contribute to the new global goals for biodiversity, which governments are expected to agree to later this week at the Convention on Biological Diversity 15th Conference of the Parties meeting (COP15) in Montreal.

Images reveal illegal road threatening isolated Indigenous People in Yanomami Land in Brazil

GP1T8S8M_0_0.jpgAn overflight conducted by Greenpeace and ISA (Instituto Socioambiental) on December 5th, 2022, spotted four excavators near an illegal road recently discovered inside the Yanomami Indigenous Land, one of the most endangered indigenous lands in the country. The over 150 km long road in the Catrimani River basin is making way for heavy machinery to enter the land, like hydraulic excavators, for the first time, which could increase between 10 and 15 times the illegal gold mining destructive potential in the area. The road also threatens an isolated indigenous people, crossing the forest at a 15 km distance to a village of the Moxihatëtëa people, in volunteer isolation inside the Yanomami Indigenous Land.

UNICEF Poll: African youth report reconsidering having children due to climate change at higher rate than youth from other regions

Globally, 2 in 5 young people said the impacts of climate change have made them rethink their desire to start a family, according to agency’s latest U-Report findings.

Almost half of young people in Africa said they have reconsidered having children due to climate change, according to results from a UNICEF U-Report poll of 243,512 worldwide respondents.

Countries’ climate promises still not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming: UN Report

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Youth activists sit in the street as a form of strike in solidarity with the Global Climate Strike in Bangladesh.

‘Game changer’ ideas on water and sustainability, centre-stage ahead of major water conference

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A child fills a jerrycan with safe water at a displaced camp near Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Senior women protest at melting Swiss glaciers to highlight climate urgency, ahead of court case

A group of senior Swiss women and climate activists have laid giant band-aids on the last piece of glacier-ice connecting the swiftly melting Scex Rouge and Tsanfleuron Glaciers, to protest the Swiss government’s inaction on the growing climate emergency and its impacts on human health.

Greenpeace report highlights inequity in vulnerable groups’ exposure to air pollution and access to air quality data

A report published by Greenpeace India for U.N. International Day of Clean Air for blue skies (7 September 2022) reveals that even though air pollution is a universal health problem that affects everyone on this planet, the risks are not evenly distributed amongst the population with some groups of people at greater risk of harm. The report “Different Air Under One Sky: The Inequity Air Research” investigated air pollution in seven countries by assessing their peoples’ access to air quality monitoring stations and the exposure to air pollution experienced by vulnerable groups of people.