Climate change

The world's 10 costliest weather disasters of 2020 reached insured damages worth 0bn, claimed at least 3,500 lives and displaced more than 13.5 million people. This is more than 2019 and reflects a long-term impact of global warming, according to a new report.

The EU needs a 'global' Green New Deal that ends the West's hypocritical relationship with overseas fossil fuel investment, writes Muhammad Magassy.

Muhammed Magassy has been a Gambian National Assembly member since 2012. He is also a member of Parliament for ECOWAS (The Economic Community of West African States).

Ljubljana – The four centre-left opposition parties have filed a motion to declare an environmental and climate emergency after a similar attempt made in February failed to make it past the committee stage.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on every country to declare a "climate emergency" on Dec. 12, as world leaders marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord made mostly incremental pledges relative to the scale of the crisis.   

Ljubljana – The government and environmental NGO have welcomed the EU summit’s decision to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 by at least 55%. The Environment Ministry believes the goal is realistic, whereas the NGOs would like it even more ambitious. A climatologist meanwhile says that for a true global impact, the EU should get China and the US on board.

Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has arrived in Brussels to participate in the European Council meeting, which will take place today and tomorrow.

In the Belgian capital, European leaders will discuss member states' measures for coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

European Union leaders are likely to unblock on Thursday a stalled 1.8 trillion euro package to help revive the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic and agree on new, more ambitious CO2 emissions reduction goals to fight climate change.

The Green Deal shows how to transform our way of life and work so that we live more efficiently, said  Chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Water in parliament Ivelina Vasileva at an online conference on "Climate policy and the Green Deal " - challenges and opportunities".

Although the novel coronavirus pandemic has driven thousands of workers into unemployment, the Pakistani government has found a way to provide jobs to their citizens while also reforesting the nation.

According to Reuters, Pakistan has created more than 63,000 jobs for unemployed day laborers by relaunching the nation's ambitious 10 Billion Tree Tsunami campaign.

Sir John Theodore Houghton, a prominent British atmospheric physicist and climate scientist, and co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), died on April 15 in the U.K, from a suspected case of coronavirus.