The effect of COVID on energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
2020-10-14 | In April 2020, at the height of the first wave of Corona infections, when most major countries shut down their public life and parts of their economy, emissions declined by 16.9%. The magnitude of this decrease was larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of 1979, or even World War II.
Climate change increases the risk of wildfires
2020-09-24 | It is evident that climate change increases the frequency and/or severity of fire weather around the world. Land management alone cannot explain recent increases in wildfire because increased fire weather from climate change amplifies fire risk where fuels remain available.
Reported new record temperature of 38°C north of Arctic Circle
2020-05-23 | It has been an unusually hot spring in Siberia, and the coinciding lack of underlying snow in the region combined with overall global temperature increases, undoubtedly helped play a critical role in causing this extreme temperature observation in Verkhoyansk (northern part of Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a region of Eastern Siberia).
COP26 postponed
2020-04-02 | With no end in sight to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the UN climate change talks which were due to take place in Scotland later in the year, have been postponed until October 2021.
Climate lawsuits
2020-02-28 | Climate lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
Climate attribution
2020-01-23 | The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires