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THE HIGHEST temperature officially recorded in the UK during the month of December was observed in Achary in the Highlands of Scotland on 28 December, the alarming Met Office measurement is a new provisional maximum temperature and set a high bench mark of 18.7C . Daily Express :: News Feed
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Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney urges financial sector to act against climate change
The UN’s incoming special envoy for climate change, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, is likening the climate crisis to a financial crisis — and says action by the financial sector to help tackle the issue is “absolutely necessary.” CBC | World News
Read More »Longest UN climate talks end with no deal on carbon markets
Marathon international climate talks ended Sunday with negotiators postponing until next year a key decision on how to regulate global carbon markets. CBC | World News
Read More »Anger erupts at UN climate summit as major economies resist bold action
Major economies resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a UN summit in Madrid limped toward a delayed conclusion on Saturday, dimming hopes that nations will act in time to stop rising temperatures that will devastate people and the natural world. CBC | World News
Read More »Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Named ‘TIME’s’ Person Of The Year
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named as Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2019, as the established magazine reports themselves. The shortlist of potential contenders for the title was wide and varied — ranging from President Donald Trump to the Hong Kong protesters currently embroiled in a prolonged struggle against Chinese authorities — but the 16-year-old Swedish environmentalist ...
Read More »Brazilian president calls teen climate activist Greta Thunberg a brat
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of Indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. CBC | World News
Read More »Climate scientists struggle with cutting their own carbon footprints
Some climate scientists and activists are limiting their flying, their consumption of meat and their overall carbon footprints to avoid adding to the global warming they study. But that comes at a cost, and the issue divides the scientific community. CBC | World News
Read More »Greta Thunberg reaches Madrid for climate march
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid on Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. CBC | World News
Read More »Greta Thunberg reaches Madrid for climate march
Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in Madrid Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. CBC | World News
Read More »UN chief urges countries to stop ‘addiction to coal’ to tackle climate change
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked countries at the opening Monday in Madrid of a two-week climate summit to decide whether they “really want to be remembered as the generation that buried its head in the sand, that fiddled while the planet burned?” CBC | World News
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