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Dear readers,
Welcome to the Climate Weekly newsletter by the Centre for Science and Environment’s Climate Change programme and Down to Earth.
2024 has witnessed a record number of attribution studies that have linked climate change as a key factor behind rising extreme weather events. Attribution study is a new stream of science utilised by climate scientists to measure the impact of climate change on a weather event. The World Weather Attribution, a pioneering initiative in this field, has released 34 rapid attributions studies for extreme weather events between January and October 2024 — the most in a calendar year since the initiative started in 2014. These events include rains, floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and cold spells, and the studies also show the rise in frequency and intensity of such events due to climate change.
As the dust settles from the 29th Conference of Parties (COP29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan, CSE and Down to Earth’s COP29 team has provided a comprehensive overview of the important issues, negotiations and decisions from this year’s climate summit, including the new climate finance target and the operationalisation of carbon markets.
Furthermore, Sehr Raheja from CSE’s Climate Change team writes about her experience as a first-time observer to the climate finance negotiations at COP29. She talks about the disappointing procedures observed by COP29’s Azerbaijani Presidency to hurriedly gavel an highly inadequate climate finance goal, the consistency and unity shown by both developing and developed country blocs’ negotiators, as well as the role of civil society organisations at the international climate summit.
Lastly, according to the World Drought Atlas launched by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, 75 per cent of the global population will be affected by drought in 25 years. The research has been released as UNCCD parties gather for their 16th meeting at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to discuss ways to build resilience against harsh droughts in the near future. The research also provides guidelines for adaptation, highlighting how data sharing and early warnings will be crucial to reduce risk and increase resilience.
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By - Upamanyu Das
Climate Change, CSE
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| EXTREME WEATHER TRACKER |
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After posting hottest summers, Japan now registers warmest autumn ever recorded, 03 December 2024
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Open and shut case, 02 December 2024
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Test of survival
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Generation alpha inherits a world irrevocably warmer by 1.5oc, 02 December 2024
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CLIMATE NEWS | SCIENCE| IMPACTS| POLITICS |
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Vapour action, 02 December 2024
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Moisture is a silent force that amplifies global warming. Yet scientists understand little about this greenhouse gas and how it influences weather systems
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