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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year

Reuters
Updated as of Dec 11 10:16 PM

Greta Thunberg, the teen activist from Sweden who has urged immediate action to address a global climate crisis, was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019 on Wednesday. Read more »

Climate change a human rights issue: CHR

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 11 09:34 AM

Climate change is a human rights issue, the country's independent rights body said Wednesday after it ruled that carbon majors or large fossil fuel companies are "morally responsible" to invest in clean energy.   Read more »

2019 was nearly, but not quite, the worst year for the Arctic

Ivan Couronne, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 09:17 AM

The Arctic has experienced its second warmest year since 1900, according to a report published Tuesday, raising fears over low summer sea ice and rising sea levels.  Read more »

US, Saudi rank bottom of climate class: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 11 12:55 AM

The United States and Saudi Arabia are among major polluters showing "hardly any signs" of reducing their greenhouse gas production, a global assessment of countries' emissions trajectories said Tuesday at United Nations climate talks. Read more »

Fix climate crisis because Earth is all we’ve got, Nobel Prize winner says

Reuters
Posted at Dec 08 12:04 AM

Some scientists, including late cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, have said threats such as nuclear war and climate change are so serious humans may have to eventually leave the Earth in order to survive as a species. Read more »

Runaway warming could sink fishing and reef tourism, researchers warn

Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 07 08:18 AM

Reef tourism, a nearly $36-billion-a-year industry today, could see more than 90 percent losses globally by 2100 under a high-emissions scenario, according to a study. Read more »

PH 2nd most affected by disasters, extreme weather worldwide: climate index

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 06 08:34 PM

The Philippines was the second most affected country when it comes to weather-related losses in 2018, according to the recently released Global Climate Risk Index. Read more »

Rising seas threaten early end for sinking village in Philippines

Eloisa Lopez, Reuters
Posted at Nov 30 10:14 AM

SITIO PARIAHAN, Philippines - Danica Martinez, 16, grew up in a house that grows taller every few years. Read more »

PH groups to join global climate strike, hold lantern parade ahead of climate negotiations

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 28 06:45 PM

Philippine civil society and environmental groups will be holding protests and a lantern parade on Friday to urge the government to declare a climate emergency in the country. Read more »

Funds worth $37 trillion failing to meet climate goals: analysis

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 27 09:54 AM

Experts analyzed 50,000 listed funds controlled by 150 finance giants and found $8.2 trillion of holdings in oil and gas, coal mining, car manufacturing and electric power.   Read more »

Slash emissions now or face climate disaster, UN warns

Patrick Galey with Marlowe Hood, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 27 08:14 AM

The United Nations Environment Program said global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent each year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C. Read more »

Turning from nuclear message, Pope urges youth to fight for the earth

Elaine Lies and Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Nov 26 10:10 AM

Pope Francis wrapped up a four-day trip to Japan on Tuesday by turning from the anti-nuclear message that was the backbone of his visit to other key campaigns of his, urging students to defend the earth and show greater compassion. Read more »

Australian PM denies climate link as smoke chokes Sydney

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 09:47 PM

Australia's Prime Minister on Thursday denied his climate policies had caused unprecedented bushfires ravaging the country and insisted his government was doing enough to tackle global warming.   Read more »

Philippines' climate body presses state agencies on Paris Accord pledges

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 20 05:36 PM

So far, only the Department of Transportation has submitted its pledge to the 2015 Paris Accord, Secretary Emmanuel de Guzman, vice chairman of the Climate Change Commission. Read more »

Climate impacts 'to cost world $7.9 trillion' by 2050

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 20 08:41 AM

Climate change could directly cost the world economy $7.9 trillion by mid-century as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper growth and threaten infrastructure, new analysis showed Wednesday.  Read more »

Investors step up pressure on global energy watchdog over climate change

Matthew Green and Jonas Ekblom, Reuters
Posted at Nov 18 10:34 PM

Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), faced renewed pressure on Monday from investors and scientists concerned about climate change to overhaul the agency's projections for fossil fuel demand. Read more »

Flood, fire and plague: Climate change blamed for disasters

Robert Birsel, Reuters
Posted at Nov 14 08:00 PM

The Lancet medical journal published a study this week saying climate change was already harming people's health by increasing the number of extreme weather events and exacerbating air pollution. Read more »

Climate change poses 'lifelong' child health risk

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 14 07:56 AM

Climate change will damage the health of an entire generation unless there are immediate cuts to fossil fuel emissions, from a rise in deadly infectious diseases to surging malnutrition, experts warned Thursday. Read more »

Putin: I don't share excitement about Greta Thunberg's UN speech

Vladimir Soldatkin and Dmitry Zhdannikov, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 12:59 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did not share the excitement about her United Nations speech last month. Read more »

Study: Humanity’s emissions ‘100x greater’ than volcanoes

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 01 10:38 PM

Human activity churns out up to 100 times more planet-warming carbon each year as all the volcanoes on Earth, says a decade-long study released Tuesday. Read more »