Throughout the week, several events occurred that prompted me to ponder once again at the way we are, why we behave the way we do and how we can’t seem to connect the dots between our actions and the functioning…
World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to…
From global warming to global boiling
The era of global warming has ended and “the era of global boiling has arrived”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said after scientists confirmed July was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record. “Climate change…
European lawmakers divided before vote on nature conservation law
The European Parliament in the French city of Strasbourg is to vote on Wednesday on the so-called Nature Restoration Law. The law, which would enable previously forested areas to be restored and peatlands to be rewetted, is supposed to make…