SINGAPORE – Climate change is fuelling the weather causing severe floods in Sydney, scientists say, and as the planet heats up, more damaging flooding events in Australia – and elsewhere – can be expected. The present floods, the third and heaviest this year to inundate parts of Sydney, have been linked to La Nina, a […]
Cars with combustion engines are stored at a container terminal at the harbor in Hamburg, Germany on March 18, 2022. (MARTIN MEISSNER / AP PHOTO) LUXEMBOURG – EU countries clinched deals on proposed laws to combat climate change early Wednesday, backing a 2035 phase-out of new fossil fuel car sales and a multibillion-euro fund to […]
People wade through a flooded area following heavy monsoon rainfall in Companiganj on June 26, 2022. (MAMUN HOSSAIN / AFP) LONDON – Extreme weather events – from scorching heatwaves to unusually heavy downpours – have caused widespread upheaval across the globe this year, with thousands of people killed and millions more displaced. In the last […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG, REUTERS) – A group of protesters calling for radical action to cut Australia’s carbon emissions shut one of Sydney’s major roads on Monday (June 27) morning, the beginning of what they’ve said will be a “week of resistance” in the country’s biggest city. More than 100 demonstrators from the climate protest group Blockade […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (forth left) and European Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans (second left) attend a press conference with commissioners in Brussels, Belgium, on July 14, 2021. (ZHANG CHENG / XINHUA) BRUSSELS – The European Parliament will on Wednesday try again to agree on more ambitious climate change policies, after rejecting […]