"Climate Finance Outcome at COP29 Still in Doubt"
"Countries are wrangling over who gets money, who will pay and whether debt relief will be part of the package."
Source: Inside Climate News, 11/21/2024
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"Drought Is an Immigration Issue"
"In Mexico, the conditions that have contributed to the largest sustained movement of humans across any border in the world will get only more common. This spring, at the start of the corn-growing season, 76 percent of Mexico was in drought, and the country was sweltering under a deadly heat dome."
Source: Atlantic, 11/20/2024
Weather Extremes Spur Illegal Migration Between U.S. And Mexico: Study
"Extreme weather is contributing to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States, suggesting that more migrants could risk their lives crossing the border as climate change fuels droughts, storms and other hardships, according to a new study."
Source: AP, 11/18/2024
Scientists Report Another Bump Upward In Annual Carbon Emissions
"Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year."
Source: AP, 11/13/2024
The World Isn’t Spending Nearly Enough to Adapt to Climate Shocks, UN Says
"A new report, urging rich nations to give more climate aid to poorer ones, comes as Donald Trump’s election throws global climate talks into disarray."
Source: NYTimes, 11/08/2024
Californians Approve $10 Billion For Water, Wildfire, Climate Projects
"California will spend $10 billion to fund water, climate, wildfire and natural resource projects after voters approved a bond measure in Tuesday’s election."
Source: CalMatters, 11/07/2024
"Nearly All Of US States Are Facing Droughts, An Unprecedented Number"
"Every US state except Alaska and Kentucky is facing drought, an unprecedented number, according to the US Drought Monitor."
Source: Guardian, 11/06/2024
"Greening Concrete: A Major Emitter Inches Toward Carbon Neutrality"
"Concrete is the most ubiquitous man-made building material on the planet, but making it generates massive amounts of CO2 emissions. Companies are experimenting with ways to green the process, from slashing the use of limestone to capturing the carbon generated when it’s burned."
Source: YaleE360, 10/31/2024
"Geothermal Energy Promises to Help Some Communities Get Off Fossil Gas"
"In a leafy neighborhood in Framingham, Massachusetts, cars traverse a freshly capped trench conveying a newly implanted pipe below the roadbed. From the jet-black strip of tar at the surface, one could imagine that the local gas company just replaced another of New England’s leaky gas mains. In fact, the infrastructure buried this year in Framingham marks a clean break from fossil-fueled business-as-usual. Rather than delivering combustible methane gas, Framingham's newest piping carries tepid water that’s the lifeblood of a geothermal energy system—technology that could help put gas pipes out of business across the United States."
Source: Sierra, 10/31/2024
New Reports Ahead of COP29 Show World Spinning Its Wheels on Climate Action
"A trio of reports released ahead of next month’s COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan all show that the existing national policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement will heat the planet by close to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as warming has accelerated in the past few years."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/29/2024
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