Climate

Written by: Pooja Chhabria and Milan Jacob At the global level, India is at the forefront of driving action on climate change. Its pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2070 was one of the most important announcements at COP26. In August...

Written by: YCC Team For the past decade, the midnight sun has been helping the remote community of Colville Lake in the Canadian Arctic decrease its dependence on fossil fuels. Codzi: “Relying on fuel coming – those things are not for certain. What...

Written by: Sophia Simmons As world leaders meet at the Conference of the Parties 26 (COP26) in Glasgow, how are young people addressing the many facets and immensity of this global crisis, and what does the world need young people...

Written by: Emily Withers A year ago the first minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, announced a big step forward towards a more verdant and accessible country: a scheme for a Welsh national forest. Inspired by the Wales Coast Path, the idea is...

Written by: Kimberly White One of the leading architects of the Paris Climate Agreement is returning to government to combat climate change. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named former Secretary of State John Kerry as the Special Presidential Envoy for...

Written by: Sarah Kennedy It’s possible to avoid catastrophic climate change by ramping up solutions that already exist today. That’s the conclusion of a recent report by Project Drawdown. The nonprofit works with a global team of researchers to analyze the...

Written by: Josh Ettinger The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is a sobering read, which some describe as a “final warning” from scientists. The core message remains the same as prior IPCC reports: human-driven climate change is happening, it’s bad,...

Written by: Kimberly White Climate Week NYC will take place as scheduled in September.  The Climate Group announced that despite COVID-19, Climate Week NYC will still take place as planned. However, The Climate Group plans to launch a virtual platform to...

Written by: Samantha Harrington The scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that it is human-caused is strong. Scientific investigation of global warming began in the 19th century, and by the early 2000s, this research began to coalesce into confidence...

Written by: Rahma Diaa After Egyptian farmer Muhammad El-Desouki lost more than half of his tomato crop to a long heatwave, he no longer thinks about climate change as a future problem. El-Desouki’s farm lies north of Cairo, in Menoufia, a governorate that...