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«Der Klimawandel ist die grösste Gefahr für die Sicherheit, mit der Menschen in der modernen Zeit je konfrontiert waren» (dpa) Der britische Naturforscher David Attenborough, 94-jährig, hat vor dem Uno-Sicherheitsrat mit drastischen Worten vor den Gefahren durch die Erderwärmung gewarnt. «Der Klimawandel ist die grösste Gefahr für die Sicherheit, mit der Menschen in der modernen Zeit je konfrontiert waren», sagte Attenborough am Dienstag bei einer Online-Sitzung des Rates. «W

UN Climate Change News, 26 February – UN Climate Change today published a synthesis of climate action ambition as contained in countries’ new or updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), indicating that nations must redouble their climate efforts if they are to reach the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise by 2C—ideally 1.5C—by the end of the century.

Axa leads investors’ efforts to gauge the rate at which businesses are warming the planet. All good money managers expect to outperform their benchmark, and by one such metric the French insurer and investor Axa SA recently scored a market-beating success. Not by delivering higher returns, but by generating a lower level of global warming. If human activity is driving carbon emissions and temperatures to dangerous highs, then a giant asset owner like Axa with a 650 billion-eu

02/25/2021 - Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. This is the result of a new study by scientists from Ireland, Britain and Germany. The researchers compiled so-called proxy data – taken mainly from natural archives like ocean sediments or ice cores – reaching back many hundreds of years to reconstruct the flow history of the AMOC. They found consisten