Three climate advocacy groups are filing a suit against French bank BNP Paribas for making a “significant contribution” to global warming by lending to fossil fuel companies, in what they say is the first time a commercial bank is being targeted for climate-related financing.
Cynthia Rosenzweig, has spent decades tracing the interactions between global warming and what we eat. Thursday she was awarded the $250,000 World Food Prize for her research.
Battered by drought, floods and famine they had little part in creating, vulnerable African nations are seeking billions of dollars at COP26 to boost their defences against climate change.
Though scientists expect carbon emissions to fall by 5% in 2020, the coronavirus pandemic is having very little impact on climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
