“I call on all leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their own countries until carbon neutrality is reached.” So said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres in his speech to the Climate Ambition Summit on December 12, the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Guterres’s appeal seemed aimed at leaders of […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. In another sign that climate change has finally become a top-tier issue among American journalists, the fate of the planet featured prominently in last Sunday’s debates in the Georgia run-off elections that will determine control of the US Senate. After decades of the climate issue being […]
By Climate Signals Scroll to the end for scientists’ reactions and reach out to us for experts who are available for interviews. Remember the bushfires in Australia that wiped out a unique ecosystem and killed or displaced 3 billion animals? That was January of this year. It seems like a lifetime, but 2020 was just […]
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In our latest Talking Shop, leading journalists discussed the role climate played in the 2020 US elections, the incoming Biden administration’s climate plans, the outlook for the Paris Agreement, seismic shifts in global finance, and much more. We started with the breaking news that the world’s biggest climate polluters, encouraged by the UN Secretary General […]
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Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock are set to face off in a televised debate on Dec. 6th at 7 pm US Eastern Time. It’s the first head-to-head debate scheduled between the two candidates in advance of their Jan. 5 runoff election in Georgia. Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue, who is facing Democratic opponent […]
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Photo by DisobeyArt/iStock / Getty Images Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. “The way we are moving is a suicide,” United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said in an interview on Monday with Covering Climate Now partners. Humanity’s survival will be “impossible” without the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement and achieving […]
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UN Secretary General António Guterres (Photo: Free to use for republication) This story originally appeared in The Nation. See more new interviews with António Guterres at CBS News, The Times of India, and El Pais. These are all available for reprint and rebroadcast by CCNow partners. “The way we are moving is a suicide,” United […]
With a new administration soon taking office in Washington, what’s next for climate reporting? That’s the question we’ll examine at our next Talking Shop webinar on Wednesday, December 2, from 12 noon to 1pm US Eastern Time. […]
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Sign up to receive the weekly Climate Beat newsletter. As we head into this next chapter of climate reporting, Covering Climate Now is modifying our newsletter to better serve journalists’ needs. We’re going to treat these emails as a kind of “bulletin board” for climate journalists as well as other folks interested in learning more […]