Floods devastate parts of Kenya as climate impact rages on
Poor countries such as Kenya are most at risk of climate disaster as they struggle to battle the man-made crisis. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that...
Extensive study reveals plant-based diets are best for the environment
Shifting from high meat consumption to a plant-based diet drastically lowers the environmental harm linked to food production, according to a new climate study on diet and emissions. The most extensive study of its kind to date, published in the journal Nature Food,...
Organisers of Paris 2024 Olympic Games aim to halve climate emissions
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games are set to be the greenest in history with a slew of measurements put in place to reduce carbon emissions from the events. One of the main goals of the events is to ‘halve the emissions arising in relation to the...
Governments want to tax billionaires to fight climate change
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa are calling for a 2% tax on global billionaires to help deal with impact of climate change. The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight...
Has the UN been understating the impact of animal agriculture?
New study claims that the United Nations has been distorting information to decrease public blame towards animal agriculture for climate crisis. During COP28, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a study analysing livestock emissions – now, experts...
