The Caribbean island of Dominica has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UAE-based carbon credit project developer and buyer Blue Carbon at COP28 in Dubai, focusing on mitigation and carbon removal initiatives across several sectors, with the Bahamas and Comoros also inking agreements. Read more: carbon-pulse.com Photo: carbon-pulse.com
Agriculture, which is responsible for over one third of the world’s emissions, will be under the spotlight at the upcoming COP28 global climate summit in Dubai. In the wake of blazing heat, rising food insecurity and devastating floods, COP28 leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda for the conference, which will call for governments to...
These readings will get you up to speed on the causes and impacts of flooding around the world. By now, it’s clear, one result of global warming is more flooding. Considering only instances caused by torrential rainstorms (not hurricanes, glacial-lake outbursts, or other factors), here is a partial list of countries that had significant floods...