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Pakistan has recorded its wettest April since 1961, with more than double the usual rainfall for the month, the country’s national weather centre has announced. The Asian nation experienced days of extreme weather in April that killed scores of people as well as destroying property and farmland. Experts said Pakistan witnessed heavier rains because of climate change. Last month’s rainfall for Pakistan was a 164 per cent increase from the usual level for April, Pakistan’s national weather centre says. The intense downpours affected the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the southwest...
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The northern French region of Aisne suffered heavy mudslides following a bout of rain between May 1st and May 2nd. The town of Courmelles was particularly affected, with a 57-year-old woman dying after being swept away by mudslides. Her partner was also injured and taken to hospital. The mayor of Courmelles set up a centre to help those impacted by the event, and warned citizens to take protective measures. Fifty-six firefighters were deployed in order to help with search and rescue effort. In Paris, storms on Wednesday prevented around forty flights from landing, which were eventually diverte...
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The Department of Education ordered students in more than 47,000 public schools to study from home due to health risks from record-high temperatures. The Philippines is among the worst affected by the sweltering weather in Southeast Asia.
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Bulgaria and Poland’s national energy and climate plans (NECPs) are insufficient to make a fair contribution towards meeting EU efforts to limit global heating and ensure a socially fair transition towards a net-zero economy, according to an assessment by the European Commission. The EU executive has been analysing draft energy and climate plans (NECPs) that member states are required to finalise by the end of June, setting out how they intend to comply with the bloc’s 2030 targets, including the overarching goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 55% below 1990 levels. Warsaw and Sofia bo...
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Cities introducing low emissions zones have cleaner air than those without, according to preliminary research by health insurers comparing Belgian cities Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent with other cities. The findings were announced in Brussels today (April 23) during an event on clean cities organised in association with Belgium's presidency of the EU Council ahead of a key vote at the European Parliament tomorrow on the Air and Ambient Quality Directive (AAQD). Low emission zones were introduced in Antwerp and Brussels in 2017 and 2018 respectively, leading to a drop in air pollutants such as bl...
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Nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a nearby river, local authorities said on Tuesday. Thousands to evacuate their homes in the Orenburg region, located some 1,200 kilometres southeast of Moscow, when a dam on the Ural River burst last week under the pressure of surging waters. Water levels in the river have since been fluctuating in different parts of the region. Experts have cited multiple possible causes of the floods: large snow reserves in the area melting, deep freezing of the soil which doesn’t allow it to absorb ra...
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Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe - and they are baking more people for a longer time with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study has found. Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20 per cent more slowly - meaning more people stay hot longer - and they are happening 67 per cent more often, according to a study in Friday's Science Advances. Scientists also found the highest temperatures in the heat waves are warmer than 40 years ago and the area under a heat dome is larger. Studies have shown heat waves worsening before - but this one is more ...
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The first ministerial discussion on a 2040 emissions reduction target was overshadowed by the intensifying row over the blocked Nature Restoration Law, with the European Commission and some governments warning it called into question the very credibility of the EU decision making process. The text of the law was agreed in back-room ‘trilogue’ talks in November, and adopted by the parliament last month. But the EU Council presidency holder Belgium, which is itself abstaining, has been unable to muster the necessary majority among governments to give the law the final rubber stamp, with half a d...
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Biofuels made from certain fast-growing crops and plants grown on land deemed unsuitable for food production should count towards meeting targets for the uptake of sustainable aviation fuels, the EU executive will tell MEPs tomorrow (20 March) having tweaked a directive last week using delegated powers. Under a recent review of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the use of food and feed crops to produce transport fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel was limited amid concern over environmental impacts and food security, with more sustainable second generation or ‘advanced’ biofuels counting t...
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This week, we are joined by Isabelle Schömann, Deputy Secretary General of the European Trade Union Confederation, Michiel Hoogeveen, Dutch MEP from the European Conservatives & Reformists, and Martin Porter, Chair of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership in Europe. Panellists reacted to an EU law currently being finalised that would make companies responsible for human rights abuses in their supply chain. Critics fear it will add red tape, while NGOs and trade unions say it will stop profits being made from human suffering. Thousands of people across Europe recently signed a p...
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