The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
International conflict and water crises lead the list of Top 10 global risks, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum ahead of next week’s meeting in Davos. The 2015 report published today highlighted the most significant threats expected over the next decade, according to almost 900 WEF members …
Pope Francis has flown to the Philippines, an island nation frequently hit by natural disasters, declaring that man is primarily responsible for climate change. Wading into the climate change debate on board the papal plane, the Pope told journalists he hoped negotiators at the next round of climate change talks …
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As economic losses from disasters rise around the world, more effort is needed to reduce the risks from extreme weather and earthquakes in every area, from infrastructure to health, the United Nations disaster prevention chief said. Margareta Wahlström, head of the U.N. Office for Disaster …
This 10th edition of the Global Risks report published by the World Economic Forum warns of five environmental risks among the top risks than the economic ones. Interstate conflict with regional consequences is the top-most global risk in terms of likelihood, with water crises ranking highest in terms of impact. …
Kashmir floods and Cyclone Hudhud caused loss of USD 18 billion and have been the most economically costly event in 2014 reveals this latest edition of Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report. 258 global natural disasters in 2014 caused economic losses of USD132 billion says the report. This report evaluates …
PARIS/MONTREAL – The year 2014 broke a series of heat records in France, Britain, Germany and Belgium, weather agencies reported Monday. In France, “2014 was the hottest year since 1900,” the Meteo-France weather agency said in a statement. The country’s average annual temperature in 2014 was 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 …
New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns. We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper-level winds, and …
New metrics and evidence are presented that support a linkage between rapid Arctic warming, relative to Northern hemisphere mid-latitudes, and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns. We find robust relationships among seasonal and regional patterns of weaker poleward thickness gradients, weaker zonal upper-level winds, and …
The Government has been accused of a “colossal failure” to educate the British public about the risks of global warming, after official data confirmed that 2014 was the hottest year in the UK since records began. The average temperature last year was 9.9C, some 1.1C above the long-term average and …
Australia experienced its third warmest year on record in 2014 with six major heat waves scorching the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Last year was 0.91C warmer than the long-term average, which is set between 1961 and 1990, the BoM’s annual climate statement said. This made 2014 Australia’s …
Climate change is undoubtedly upon us, and it will cause irreversible impacts on both the environment and world economies if action is not immediately taken, warns a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Environmentalists have taken to the New York City streets this week in protest …
Indian cities are exposed to a new pattern of climate-related disaster risks. Floods in Srinagar in September 2014, triggered by extreme rainfall, were the deadliest to hit the valley in the last 60 years. The port city of Visakhapatnam, ground zero of Cyclone Hudhud in October 2014, was the first …
Urbanisation in Mumbai has led to the rise in ‘extreme rainfall’ instances in the city, finds a study by IIT-B professors. Comparing the weather pattern in urban Mumbai and relatively non-urban Alibaug during the periods 1969–88 and 1989–2008, researchers found that higher temperature (post-urbanization) in the atmosphere of Mumbai accumulates …
As the environment, climate change and migration complex nexus is drawing increasing attention in the contemporary international agenda, The State of Environmental Migration 2014: Review of the Year 2013 is the fourth of the annual publication, with a specific focus on the year 2013 and aiming to enhance understanding on …
Centre for Science and Environment says the conference’s decisions will not result in a climate deal in 2015 Bad for India. Global warming will increase, India may see more extreme weather events which will affect its poor more Lima, December 14, 2014: ‘Lima Call to Climate Action’ is a major …
Challenges and options across transport modes and stakeholders. This report explores current climate change adaptation practices concerning transport across European countries. It provides an overview on the challenges and state adaptation action, a review of a number of initiatives in different countries, and conclusions on a potential way forward. Its …
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is largely due to record high global sea surface temperatures, which will very likely remain above normal until the end of …
The Global Climate Risk Index 2015 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available – from 2013 and 1994–2013 – were taken into account. The countries affected most in 2013 were the Philippines, …
There has been evidence since 1950 of changes in climate extremes. Observed changes in climate extremes reflect the influence of anthropogenic climate change in addition to natural climate variability, with changes in exposure and vulnerability influenced by both climatic and nonclimatic factors. Changes in climate extremes vary across regions with …
