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Bali, Indonesia, 15-16 November 2022 1. Fourteen years ago, the Leaders of the G20 met for the first time, facing the most severe financial crisis in our generation. We recognized, as large global economies, that collectively we carry responsibilities and that our cooperation was necessary to global economic recovery, to tackle global challenges, and lay a foundation for strong,…

A scheme that sets down strict grazing plans to benefit the environment and generate revenue for local people was highlighted at Cop27 as a future model. “Our people didn’t know what carbon was,” says Dokhole. “There is no word for carbon in our local language, not even in Swahili, the national language. Yet the success of the project depended on the pastoralists understanding how the…

The impacts of climate change are his specialist field: Johan Rockström outlines the security risks that global warming holds. How do extreme weather events arise? And what influence do they have on international security? Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor for Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam, explains the effects…

To secure long-term harvest yields and combat hunger in the face of ongoing climate change, researchers are focusing on new and newly discovered resilient crops. Below, we take a look at five of these ‘supercrops’. Food security: crops with a future Climate change is threatening the food supply of the world’s growing population. In sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-East Asia,…

Issue 590: A Swiss experiment on two tree species indicates that global warming may lead to extra carbon uptake in some trees due to an extended growing season. This effect may compensate for reduced growth during dry periods. The researchers suggest that carbon uptake will likely be enhanced in some species, in particular, though the exact mechanisms that trigger earlier leaf-out (when…

Welcome to the Global Drought System This system is the onset of a Global Drought Observatory (GDO) mainly targeting at emergency response issues. Focus is on a Map Viewer and an information rich report. GDO is developed by the team of the European Drought Observatory ( EDO ). Some services you can find on the web service focusing on Europe. For example heat waves and low flows are only…