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 …
Flooding, extreme weather and drought are serious risks to urban economies. A new CDP report highlights the growth of public-private partnerships to build cities' resilience Cities are home to half the world's population and produce a staggering 80% of global GDP. As more of us continue to migrate to cities, …
The baseline for "normal" weather used by everyone from farmers to governments to plan ahead needs to be updated more frequently to account for the big shifts caused by global warming, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. The WMO's Commission for Climatology believes rising temperatures and more heatwaves …
Cities from Sao Paulo to Hong Kong say climate change threatens their economies, and most are taking measures to protect business, according to a report today from the Carbon Disclosure Project. About 76 percent of 207 cities surveyed by the non-profit group said that extreme weather and other effects of …
Buildings are still being designed with past climate in mind, the advisers say England is still not doing enough to tackle the risks from climate change, government advisers say. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says three-quarters of existing flood defences are inadequately maintained because of a cash shortage. Rules …
The government will implement two separate projects for riverbank protection and strengthening climate resilience and disaster preparedness in eight coastal towns with credit support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Total cost of the projects has been estimated at $425.7 million (Tk. 3,277.89 crore). The Manila-based lender in a statement …
Devastating health effects from recent heat waves in China have highlighted the importance of understanding health consequences from extreme heat stress. Despite the increasing mortality from extreme heat, very limited studies have quantified the effects of summer extreme temperature on heat-related illnesses in China. The associations between extreme heat and …
The growing frequency of extreme weather events in the UK is putting the nation's infrastructure networks at risk, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has warned. The structures underpinning the UK's transport, energy, flood, waste and water networks have been assessed by ICE in its latest infrastructure 'state of the …
Warming of the oceans, melting ice sheets, and extreme weather events have become more prominent realities during the past year. Southeast Florida has been experiencing some of these effects first-hand, with severe downpours and “king tides” causing localized flooding in some areas of Miami-Dade County. These events provide a glimpse …
Every year, disasters related to weather, climate and water hazards cause significant loss of life and set back economic and social development by years, if not decades From 1970 to 2012, 8 835 disasters, 1 94 million deaths and US$ 2 4 trillion of economic losses were reported globally as …
America’s farm, ranch and forest managers are stewards of the land, and have long recognized the significance of managing soil health, plant productivity and animal nutrition. Conservation practices and other management changes can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase carbon storage while improving soil health, crop or livestock productivity, …
Climate change and migration are major concerns in the Middle East and North Africa region, yet the empirical evidence on the impact of climate change and extreme weather events on migration remains limited. Information is broadly lacking on how households in vulnerable areas perceive changes in the climate, how they …
How are rapid recent food price changes linked to climate and environmental change? How do people who are vulnerable to these changes view these links? This note explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on these connections, based on research designed to explore experiences of food …
The SCF loan will have a 40-year term, including a grace period of 10 years, and an annual service charge of 0.10% Asian Development Bank has provided $82m in loans and $12m in grants to protect coastal towns from the ravages of natural disasters and climate change. Climate change and …
Climate damages in the European Union from global warming could rise to at least 190 billion euros ($259 billion) a year in the 2071-2100 period, a study by the 28-nation bloc found. Net welfare loss could be 1.8 percent of current gross domestic production if no further action is taken …
President Barack Obama derided climate-change skeptics as a “fringe” element as he highlighted his record on the environment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a conservation group. Obama yesterday indirectly criticized congressional Republicans, who he said view climate change as “a liberal plot.” “Many who say that actually know better …
Local transport particularly at risk, as infrastructure struggles to cope with increasing number of extreme weather events Britons should not expect key services to work constantly in future, engineers have warned, as the nation's infrastructure struggles to cope with the increasing number of extreme weather events. The Institution of Civil …
Unseasonal bouts of extreme weather across the US, Europe and Asia are the result of strong atmospheric currents which repeatedly direct floods, freezes and heatwaves to the same areas, scientists now claim. Cold snaps across eastern North America, flooding in western Asia and drought are caused by a variation in …
Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year. These are among the economic costs …
People sleep in the shade in Manhattan's High Line Park on June 25, 2013 in New York City. It’s not the heat. It’s the humidity. And the U.S. is on a path to regularly experience a deadly combination of the two the likes of which have only been recorded once …
Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year. These are among the economic costs …
