Following the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement and COP26 in Glasgow, a new advanced technology framework to help tackle climate issues needs to be more developed.
Today, there are nearly eight billion people living on the planet. As this number continues to grow, the need for water, food, land, and energy will also rise. The climate is one of the earth’s fundamental life support systems which determines if the planet is habitable or not.
More than 30,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Malaysia on Sunday as the country battles some of its worst floodings in years.The tropical Southeast Asian nation often sees stormy monsoon seasons towards the end of the year, with flooding regularly prompting mass evacuations.Downpours since Friday have caused rivers to overflow, submerging many urban areas and cutting off major roads, leaving thousands of motorists stranded.More than 30,000 flood victims across eight states and te
Those who are disappointed by the inconclusive outcomes of the COP26 climate-change meeting, United States (US) President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent virtual summit, or efforts to achieve COVID-19 vaccine equity need to wake up about the world we live in. Under current circumstances, global governance is guaranteed to disappoint.
Across a quarter century of United Nations (UN) climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed somewhere in between.This year's COP26 inspired all these reactions at once.Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, leading a 100,000-strong march through the streets of Glasgow, dismissed the two-week meet as a "greenwashing festival".But dedicated experts in the ne
Women account for 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, but account for only about seven percent of investment in the sector. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), investing more in female farmers could increase agricultural yields by up to 30 percent – almost enough to offset the decline in output expected by 2030 because of climate change.
United Nations (UN) climate change summit host Boris Johnson, on Sunday hailed a last-ditch agreement to tackle global warming but said he was disappointed it did not go further on tackling use of high-polluting coal.Nearly 200 countries on Saturday pledged to speed up the fight against rising temperatures, after two weeks of non-stop negotiations.British Prime Minister Johnson called the 11th-hour deal "truly historic" and said it signalled "the beginning of the end for coal p
On Friday, youth campaigners, indigenous leaders and Extinction Rebellion members raised a cacophony of chants and drum beats outside COP26, and civil society groups inside the conference complex staged a walkout to join them.Within the United Nations-controlled blue zone, delegates darted through the endless meeting halls or hunched around laptops as the clock counted down tense minutes to the end of the 12-day conference that is widely understood to be crucial to the future of humanity.The
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Thursday against a return to Cold War-era tensions in the Asia-Pacific, urging greater cooperation on pandemic recovery and climate change.Amid growing tensions with the United States (US) over Taiwan, partially offset by a surprise deal between Beijing and Washington on climate, Xi said all countries in the region must work together on joint challenges."Attempts to draw ideological lines or form small circles on geo-political grounds are bound to f
Governments will push for an agreement on Monday on how to help vulnerable countries deal with global warming and compensate them for damage already done, a test of whether developing and rich nations can end a standoff over cash for climate change.At the start of a crunch week for the United Nations (UN) climate talks in Glasgow, government ministers will get down to the nitty-gritty of trying to honour earlier promises to pay for climate-linked losses and damages and addressing questions of
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Glasgow a "failure" during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding swifter action from leaders to address the emergency.Thunberg said pledges from some nations made during COP26 to accelerate their emissions cuts amounted to little more than "a two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah"."It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure," she tol
As the world witnessed 200 leaders gathered in Glasgow, United Kingdom for COP26, there is a cautious hope that the world leaders will develop a path towards implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement, towards reduced emissions and the decarbonised planet, and among others; Green Economy. A green economy, by definition, is a low carbon, resource-efficient and socially inclusive economy.
