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Reaktionen auf eine globale Krise - die Coronavirus-Pandemie und der Klimanotstand
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Kim Coetzee
Regierungen auf der ganzen Welt sind in ihren Anstrengungen zur Eindämmung der COVID-19-Pandemie vereint. Diese kollektive Reaktion zeigt, wie eine Antwort auf eine globale Krise – auch die Klimakrise – aussehen kann und sollte: entschlossenes Handeln der Regierungen auf der Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse und individuelle solidarische Verhaltensänderungen, die eine gesellschaftliche Transformation ermöglichen. Dies alles mit dem Fokus auf den Schutz der Schwächsten und mit dem Willen, auch diejenigen zu unterstützen, die die Leidtragenden der nötigen Schutzmaßnahmen sind.
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Responding to a global crisis - the coronavirus pandemic and the climate emergency
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Kim Coetzee
Governments around the world are doubling down on containing the COVID-19 pandemic, showing what a response to a global crisis – also the climate crisis - can and should look like: government action informed by science, individual behavioural change enabling the transformation, and leaving no one behind while focusing on protecting the most vulnerable.
(This article is also available in German)
International Women’s Day on March 8 is a chance to start solving a deep inequality: women are more vulnerable to climate change than men.
The climate movement is brimming with strong women who get stuff done. More than 50 such women work at Climate Analytics and this week, in the run up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we are celebrating the amazing work they do to tackle the climate crisis.
The Review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM), undertaken at COP25, was an opportunity for a stronger commitment for action and support, including new and additional finance, capacity building and technical support. Long intense negotiations and a united position among developing countries of G77 and China, lead to an acceptable outcome.
Home by the sea: new science shows more sea-level rise impacts on small islands
Dr Alexander Nauels, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Oceans and seas around the world will continue to rise for centuries, even long after global mean temperatures have stabilised, new research shows. Add to that another recent finding that more land is below the high tide line than originally estimated and the implications for small island communities are clear: they face serious and protracted challenges from global warming related sea-level rise. Steep carbon emission reductions and limiting warming to 1.5°C, as governments agreed by signing the Paris Agreement, will significantly reduce risks related to long-term sea level rise.