WEF's top 5 global risks all environmental
WEF's annual compendium of the biggest risks on the planet, released to shape next week's gathering at Davos, overwhelmingly focuses on the climate crisis.
Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Wildfires. Food shortages. Mass coral reef deaths and widespread species extinctions. Global pandemics. Every other issue is secondary. In a world of climate change, direct impacts on humanity are evident where we live and work and on the health and well-being of many populations. Climate change is a truly global issue; fighting it demands global cooperation and financing through summits, known as COPs, and landmark treaties like the Paris Agreement.
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WEF's annual compendium of the biggest risks on the planet, released to shape next week's gathering at Davos, overwhelmingly focuses on the climate crisis.
U.N. officials unveiled a sweeping plan to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction, proposing a global wildlife treaty on the scale of the Paris climate accord.
A nuclear technique developed with U.N. support suppressed the disease-carrying tsetse fly without harming other insects.
India raised living standards for 1.4 billion citizens by expanding access to cleaner energy sources but must do more for security and growth, IAEA said.
A London-based trade association proposed creating an organization to run a US$5 billion research fund for eliminating carbon from global shipping.
The U.N. climate summit ended in Madrid without resolving how to put a price on carbon and only partial agreement on more ambition in cutting pollutants.
The E.U. plans to create "the first climate-neutral continent by 2050," a three-decade blueprint to sustainably overhaul Europe's trade, industry and politics.
A public–private global health partnership said it will invest US$178 million to establish an emergency stockpile of 500,000 Ebola vaccine doses worldwide.
A new U.N. report cautions the world must begin cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 7.6% a year starting in 2020 to meet global targets.
More than 11,000 scientists warned the world must immediately and fundamentally change if it is going to avert "untold suffering due to the climate crisis."
The Trump administration notified the U.N. on the first day possible that it will withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change a year from now.
The world's biggest climate fund wrapped up a fundraising conference at Paris with US$9.78 billion in pledges raised from 27 mostly European nations.
A group of nations responsible for nearly half of all global warming pollutants launched a new finance initiative to oversee investment in climate technologies.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, backed by Emmanuel Macron, Bill Gates and Bono, said it reached its US$14 billion pledges target.
The International Monetary Fund recommended the world adopt a steep global tax on carbon emissions within a decade to slow global warming.
An agreement to limit black carbon emissions that accelerate melting of glaciers and sea ice entered into force in Europe and North America.