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Global warming spells doom for ice-based ecosystems

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A new study reveals global warming is accelerating significantly, with urgent implications for climate action and emission reduction efforts.

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Global warming picking up pace, study says

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“Over the past 10 years, the estimated warming rate has been around 0.35C per decade," a study found.

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Global warming has seen ‘significant’ acceleration since 2015, study finds

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Climate crisis accelerated in last 10 years: Study

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‘Significant’ acceleration of global warming since 2015, study shows

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A new Royal Meteorological Society and University of Reading Report, '
Delivering high quality climate change, nature and sustainability education for all
'
, reviews proposed changes to climate change, nature and sustainability education in the UK's national curriculum. The report outlines the need to go further, identifying ten focus areas to be developed if high quality climate change, nature and sustainability education are to be embedded across all education stages.
'This is an excellent report that shares and builds on the expertise and hard work of many people and organisations. Cambridge is proud to have contributed.
'
Christine Özden, Cambridge's Director for Climate Education
The new report, to which Cambridge experts contributed, was drafted following a workshop in early 2026. It builds on the strengths of the UK's Curriculum and Assessment Review but goes further, arguing that the education system needs to deliver high quality climate education for all students. According
to the report, education should enable students to understand Earth's systems, develop solutions and build their resilience to flourish in a changing world.
Christine Özden, Cambridge's Global Director for Climate Education
Christine Özden, Cambridge's Global Director for Climate Education
Christine Özden, the first Global Director for Climate Education at Cambridge University Press & Assessment, said
: 'Today's young people will inherit the most consequential impacts of climate change and the responsibility to respond to them. We want to support schools to empower them from reception up, so they have the expertise and ability to evaluate evidence, to think critically and to take on jobs in new industries shaped by a green economy.
'The UK Government's recent Curriculum and Assessment Review made positive changes to integrating climate into education. Like the report's authors, we see the opportunity and need to embed it right across the curriculum.
'This is an excellent report that shares and builds on the expertise and hard work of many people and organisations. Cambridge is proud to have contributed. We are already embedding climate education in our qualifications to ensure that this generation is equipped to contribute to local and global responses to the environmental changes that happen in their lifetimes. Climate change is the defining challenge of our age, and climate education is essential across the curriculum.
'
A curriculum that supports young people
In 2024, Cambridge OCR's
Striking the Balance
Report called for a curriculum that supports young people to understand the science behind climate change and the role they can play as citizens in tackling one of the biggest threats to the planet.
Myles McGinley, Managing Director of Cambridge OCR,
said:
'This report echoes what teachers and students tell us: they want to see more about climate change and sustainability in the curriculum.
Myles McGinley, Cambridge OCR's Managing Director
Myles McGinley, Cambridge OCR's Managing Director
'Just as climate change touches on every aspect of our lives, it should be present across a student's education. This is more than just adding a worthy topic to the curriculum. Student engagement and attendance are increasingly challenging for many schools. Part of the solution is providing a curriculum that is engaging and relevant to young people and provides them with the knowledge and skills they need for life and work in a rapidly changing world.'
'Today's report notes that there will also be an important place for more climate-
relevant
qualifications. This is something we have found in the positive response to our certificate in sustainability, aimed at young people who are interested in the green economy. The curriculum, and qualifications available to young people, must never stand still.'
'Just as climate change touches on every aspect of our lives, it should be present across a student's education.
'
Myles McGinley
New joint Royal Meteorological Society/University of Reading report
New joint Royal Meteorological Society/University of Reading report
Read more about climate education at Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Bloomberg Green emails us about 'Sao Paulo's climate paradox' of being too dry and too wet at once, naturally enough 'its largest climate-induced stress test in more than a decade' rather than just some bad weather. But then they tell us ''What's behind all of this is climate change, derived not only from global warming and greenhouse gas emissions, but also from land use change,' said Marcelo Seluchi, a meteorologist from Brazil's National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, also known as Cemaden.' Right. Climate change is behind climate change, and behind the climate change behind climate change lurks global warming and greenhouse gas emissions rather than, say, global warming due to GHGs. And land use change just in case all that stuff was word salad.
It's hard to know where to start not believing it. Perhaps with its worst weather in more than a decade being proof of some unprecedented alteration in the direction of doom.
It seems it was very dry in 2014-15, then it wasn't, and now it is again. Which might lead the unwary to think Saõ Paulo is prone to periodic drought. Though of course back then the Guardian blamed climate change, noting a politician's dissent then invoking the scientists who say, as in 'Scientists think otherwise' before admitting that urbanization and deforestation might also be involved.
Again the unwary, especially if they accidentally learned that history didn't start in 2014, might also stumble over the knowledge that that earlier drought, which in some tellings lasted from 2014-17, was the worst in a century not the worst ever, and the summer of 2013-14 'was considered the hottest and driest in Brazil in 71 years' not the hottest and driest ever.
Speaking of 'ever', Wikipedia also claims the 'Grand Seca' of 1877-78 'was the largest and most devastating drought in Brazilian history' and killed something like half a million people. But of course Brazilian history only goes back about 500 years, if you mean the kind of history that relies on written records not speculation. But evidence from what is there known as 'pre-Cabraline history', as in 'before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500', indicates that when it comes to changing weather, stuff happens. Always did. Not always nice. Sometimes wet. Sometimes dry. Sometimes hot. Sometimes cold. Why weren't we told?
Oh, and put it down to our puckish sense of humour. But we did an online search for whether Brazil is warming faster than the global average and you do not win anything for guessing that yes, it supposedly is, like everywhere else.
Now the Bloomberg Green story also says that Cameden's:
'data shows that precipitation levels have been falling since the 1960s in much of Brazil, coinciding with widespread deforestation in the central area and in the Amazon.'
Which has, of course, nothing to do with warming or GHGs but chainsaws and brushfires. Which isn't to say deforestation isn't bad. It's to say if we cut down a tree then say it wasn't me it was the climate change that changed the climate, we should not be believed. Not only because it's clear that doing stuff other than releasing CO2 that makes a place drier isn't releasing CO2 that makes a place drier, but more fundamentally because climate change can't cause climate change.
How can it be possible that this point must be made again and again?

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Tinubu rallies governors, private sector on green transition
President inaugurates Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday urged governors, the private sector, development partners, and youths to drive Nigeria's transition to a low-carbon economy.
The President spoke during the launch of the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT) in Abuja.
Represented by Environment Minister Balarabe Abbas Lawal, the President described the tour as a national movement to convert climate awareness into measurable action, deepen resilience and attract green investment.
He said climate change was already affecting farmers in the North, coastal communities in the South, while businesses were facing rising energy costs.
'Climate change is not only about risk; it is about opportunity. Nigeria stands at a defining moment. The nations that position themselves wisely today will lead tomorrow, and we intend to be one of them,' he said.
President Tinubu said the tour would take climate engagement to communities, involving governors, traditional rulers, students, entrepreneurs and financial institutions to identify viable projects.
The President stressed that Nigeria's Nationally Determined Contributions must be backed by concrete action and investment.
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He added: 'Climate finance is not charity; it is strategic investment. Climate resilience is national security.'
Lawal highlighted the impact of desertification, flooding, coastal erosion and erratic rainfall.
The minister noted that while the Climate Change Act 2021 provides a framework for carbon budgeting and net-zero emissions by 2060, stronger subnational implementation is required.
He said the ministry was working with states to appoint Directors of Climate Change and establish climate desks across MDAs, alongside youth-focused initiatives to promote environmental education and green entrepreneurship.
Chairman of the REHCCAT Committee and Special Assistant to the President on Climate Change Matters, Yussuf Olatunji Kelani, said the tour would cover the six geopolitical zones, starting with two states per zone. Activities during the tour will include policy dialogues, town halls and technical sessions to align state action with Nigeria's climate and energy transition goals.
An expert, Prof. Babajide Alo, called for stronger subnational capacity, clear climate funding mechanisms, and locally driven adaptation strategies.
The Senior Special Assistant on Climate Change Matters, Ibrahim Shelleng, and the Special Assistant on Climate Change Financing, Olamide Fagbuji, were named co-chairmen of the tour committee.

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Tinubu rallies governors, private sector on green transition

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ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday inaugurated the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), calling on governors, private sector leaders, and stakeholders to accelerate Nigeria's transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy.
Represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, at the Old Banquet Hall, State House, Abuja, the President described climate action as both urgent and opportunistic.
'Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it's here, affecting northern farmers with drought, southern coastal communities with erosion and flooding, businesses with energy disruptions, and the future of our youth,' Tinubu said.
'This is not just risk; it's opportunity. Nations that position wisely today will lead tomorrow. Nigeria intends to be one of those nations.'
The President urged state governments to turn Nigeria's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into actionable projects, stressing that commitments must be matched by investments. He tasked governors as 'engines of green growth,' the private sector to 'innovate boldly,' and youth to take ownership of the transition, aligning the effort with the Renewed Hope Agenda for sustainable development, energy, and food security.
'Climate resilience is national security. Nigeria chooses leadership over hesitation,' he added.
Ministry of Environment Highlights Subnational Action
Minister Lawal, represented by Federal Director of Forestry Halima Bawa, highlighted the urgency of local climate interventions, citing desert encroachment in the North, flooding in riverine areas, and coastal erosion in the South.
He noted that the Climate Change Act 2021 provides a legal framework for carbon budgeting, net-zero emissions by 2060, and coordinated climate governance. Lawal emphasized the need to domesticate climate action at subnational and grassroots levels, including appointing Subnational Directors of Climate Change and establishing Climate Change Desks across state Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.
The Minister also stressed youth involvement, highlighting initiatives like:
Eco-School Initiative – mainstreaming environmental education in schools.
Youth Climate Innovation Hub – fostering climate entrepreneurship and practical solutions.
Uni-Go-Green Initiative – mentoring young Nigerians in green skills, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and digital climate services.
Tour Aims to Democratize Climate Knowledge
Comrade Yussuf Olatunji Kelani, REHCCAT Committee Chairman and Special Assistant to the President on Climate Change, outlined the tour's objectives:
Democratize climate knowledge – ensuring citizens understand both risks and opportunities.
Align federal and state action – implement NDCs, Energy Transition Plans, and National Adaptation Plans.
Mobilize partnerships and investment – unlock green jobs, innovation, and climate finance.
'The tour is about activation, not speeches alone. It brings climate action to communities, markets, farms, classrooms, and policy chambers,' Kelani said.
He also highlighted the Sustainable Climate Resilience and Initiative for People and Transformation, a national program promoting climate-smart farming, ecological restoration, and green jobs.
Empowering Communities for Climate Resilience
Guest Speaker, Professor Babajide Alo, emphasized locally led adaptation as essential to building a climate-resilient Nigeria. He urged governments at all levels to empower communities through indigenous knowledge, capacity building, and inclusive decision-making.
'To secure our climate future and foster sustainable, adaptive communities, states must improve climate education, resources, and grassroots engagement,' Alo said.
Committee Leadership
In addition to Kelani, President Tinubu appointed Ibrahim Shelleng, Senior Special Assistant on Climate Change Matters, and Olamide Fagbuji, Special Assistant on Climate Change Financing, as Co-Chairmen of the REHCCAT Committee.
The tour signals a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, pushing climate action from policy rooms to communities across Nigeria.

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday inaugurated the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), calling on governors, private sector leaders, and stakeholders to accelerate Nigeria's transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy.

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Despite 31 years of international Conference of the Parties (COP) negotiations to tackle climate change, greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise—by 1.1% last year alone.1 Repeated warnings—including that from the 2009 Lancet Commission that climate change was 'the greatest global health threat of the 21st Century'2—have been ignored, and the predicted escalating impacts on disease are now evident.3 Socioeconomic factors, however, are the key determinants of health,4 and a new report, drawing on judgment from more than 60 climate experts, shows that the impacts of climate change on these factors have been both underestimated and ignored.5The authors suggest that this is, in part, owing to investors and policymakers assessing the impacts of climate change through global average surface temperature rather than weather extremes, and failing to consider a non-linear acceleration in climate impacts (such as tipping points causing a 'Jenga-effect' collapse). Based on these flawed assumptions, such investors and...

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National parks in the United States represent a treasure trove of natural, historical, and recreational landscapes, but their health is at risk. A comprehensive new study on the climate-change vulnerability of national parks, published in Conservation Letters, has found that 77% of America's national park sites are highly vulnerable to climate change. According to the study, most of these parks are at risk of at least one potentially transformational impact, such as fire, drought, pests or diseases or sea-level rise.
The three components of vulnerability
For the study, vulnerability was defined by an intersection of three components: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Exposure was further defined as the intensity of the changes the parks may be exposed to, such as climatic changes involving temperature or precipitation, and changes in climate-exacerbated disturbances, like fire, drought, and sea-level rise. Sensitivity was defined as "the extent to which a location or resource is affected or existing stressors are amplified by climatic changes, whether adversely or beneficially."
The adaptive capacity of the parks is a measure of how well a system can adapt to climate-change impacts. Certain landscapes may facilitate or impede the ability of a species or ecosystems to adapt. For example, parks surrounded by developed land would impede species from migrating away from dangers. Another example might be whether the park contains topographic and vegetative diversity that can create refuge from climate-change related changes.
The research team assessed the vulnerability of 259 different national park sites in the lower 48 states. To do so, they used 45 spatial data layers representing 21 vulnerability factors, and then assessed the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity for each park. Their results showed that 200 out of the 259 parks (77%) were considered highly vulnerable to climate change, and 174 of these (67%) were at risk from at least one potentially transformational impact.
Regional vulnerabilities
The team's results showed some important regional patterns. The midwestern and eastern parks showed the highest cumulative vulnerability due to high exposure, existing stressors, and intense land use. Western parks were shown to be at risk of multiple transformational threats, particularly fire, drought and pests, with thirteen of these parks scoring high for the risk "trifecta" of fire, drought, and forest pests and disease. However, western parks had better scores for adaptive capacity, likely due to more complex topography and a generally lower human footprint, lowering their cumulative vulnerability.
"Parks with the highest cumulative vulnerability scores were in the Midwest, in and near Washington, DC, and along the Gulf Coast of the southeast. For many of these parks, vulnerability stemmed from high levels of human development, poor air quality, high proportions of non-native species, and low environmental diversity, which is considered an indicator of climate-change resilience.
"Parks in the Great Plains scored very high for climate-change exposure, in part because the low topographical relief of the region contributes to high climate velocity—the rate a species must move to keep pace with the same climatic conditions—and the region lacks landscape features (e.g., higher elevations, north-facing slopes) that confer adaptive capacity (e.g., by providing climatic refugia)," the study authors explain.
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The future of US national parks
Park managers are now faced with the dilemma of how to deal with these inevitable changes. Because the landscapes that currently exist in many of these parks are no longer able to be saved as-is in the long-term, the National Park Service has adopted the "resist-accept-direct" framework, for making more informed strategies to deal with changes.
"For highly valued, irreplaceable park resources, resisting change may be a preferred pathway in the near-term to prevent or delay impacts. But as climate change progresses, strategies will likely need to shift toward accepting and directing change, especially when managers have little leverage for controlling system dynamics. Species range shifts may change management goals and conservation targets altogether, increasing the need for actions that facilitate species movement through the landscapes between parks or that promote fire, drought, or climatic refugia," the study authors explain.
Studies like this one help to inform future strategies for climate adaptation strategies and for allocating resources to parks that are most at risk. The study authors also note the importance of ongoing monitoring and integration of new data and for additional detailed, park-specific vulnerability assessments.
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Julia L. Michalak et al, Relative Vulnerability of US National Parks to Cumulative and Transformational Climate Impacts, Conservation Letters (2026). DOI: 10.1111/con4.70020
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National parks in the United States represent a treasure trove of natural, historical, and recreational landscapes, but their health is at risk. A comprehensive new study on the climate-change vulnerability of national parks, published in Conservation Letters, has found that 77% of America's national park sites are highly vulnerable to climate change. According to the study, most of these parks are at risk of at least one potentially transformational impact, such as fire, drought, pests or diseases or sea-level rise.

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The executive director of the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance says it was "shocking" that the term "climate action" was removed from a provincial department's title in last month's cabinet shuffle.
Premier Rob Lantz shuffled his cabinet Feb. 12, and named Darlene Compton as minister of land and environment. Before then, that department was called environment, energy and climate action.
Lantz moved energy under the transportation and infrastructure portfolio — but climate action is now nowhere to be found.
P.E.I. Watershed Alliance executive director Heather Laiskonis said climate change is a reality that requires "dedicated leadership" from the province.
"Without somebody steering the ship, both literally and figuratively, we are just going to be back in a reactionary state," she told CBC's Island Morning.
"People aren't going to have co-ordinated mandates on how to tackle climate change without a minister leading the charge."
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The head of the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance is questioning the province's commitment to fighting climate change after the term 'climate action' was dropped from a government portfolio title. Heather Laiskonis joins us to discuss what that could mean.
Laiskonis noted climate change affects many industries in the province — from fishing, aquaculture and forestry to tourism and agriculture.
"These are huge, multifaceted, complex, wicked problems and just to take [the portfolio] away without consultation is pretty shocking," she said.
The shift shows government is moving away from being a leader on climate change, Laiskonis said, pointing to the living labs initiative that was "pioneered" in P.E.I.
Damage is seen at P.E.I. National Park, in part due to coastal erosion. (Parks Canada)
Laiskonis questions how multiple departments can tackle the issue without a single minister spearheading climate action.
"It's so easy to say, well, climate change is part of everyone's portfolio," she said. "Well, prove it. Show us how. Show us how everyone's working on it."
Climate action wasn't the only departmental title that was lost in the cabinet shuffle.
The former department of fisheries, tourism, sport and culture added rural development, but both sport and culture were dropped entirely.

"Without somebody steering the ship, both literally and figuratively, we are just going to be back in a reactionary state for the province."

P.E.I. Watershed Alliance concerned that 'climate action' removed from minister's title

The Climate Network, which represents 16 civil society organizations active in the climate field in Türkiye, on Tuesday announced its expectations from the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Türkiye this November.
A meeting was held in Istanbul to discuss issues related to combating climate change, and participants stressed the need for more concrete actions beyond the current framework.
Member organizations of the network focused on steps to be developed in addition to the climate law that entered into force in the summer of 2025, aiming to combat climate change in line with the green growth vision and net-zero emission target.
The law states that measures will be taken in this framework, taking into account the country's development priorities and special conditions in line with the net-zero emission target.
Speaking to Anadolu, Pinar Ceren Gayretli, one of the founders of the Climate Network and senior expert at WWF Türkiye's Climate and Energy Program, said the most important deficiency in the climate law is the lack of a clear emission reduction target.
She stated that changes such as amending the definition of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) in the law directing a certain portion of revenue from the emissions trading system to just transition were realized with the suggestions of the Climate Network.
According to the law, revenues obtained from the ETS and related carbon markets can be recorded as special revenue in the general budget and used for combating climate change and green transformation purposes; up to 10% of these revenues can be allocated to just transition practices.
Gayretli said: "As the Climate Network, we expect COP31 to be the one where Türkiye decides to phase out coal."
Türkiye is currently finalizing a more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target and its long-term low-emission strategy until 2053, with greater focus on renewable energy, energy efficiency, just transition in coal regions, and nature-based solutions.
The Climate Network, formed in Jan. 2025 by 16 Turkish civil society organizations, including the European branch of the Climate Action Network (CAN Europe), has continued coordinated initiatives focused on policy advocacy, public awareness, and local climate projects.
The 31st session (COP31) will be held in Türkiye this November, primarily in the Turkish Riviera resort of Antalya, with the leaders' summit in Istanbul.
At the gathering, nearly 200 countries are expected to convene in Türkiye to discuss the next steps in implementing the Paris Agreement, including updated emission reduction targets, adaptation measures, climate finance, and carbon market rules.

'As the Climate Network, we expect COP31 to be the one where Türkiye decides to phase out coal,' says one of Climate Network founders and senior expert at WWF Türkiye's Climate and Energy Program - Anadolu Ajansı

Ahead of COP31: Turkish Climate Network details hopes for November conference

President Bola Tinubu has formally launched the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), a nationwide initiative aimed at promoting climate resilience and sustainable development across Nigeria.
The President, represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, who launched REHCCAT at the State House, Abuja, called on governors, the private sector, and other stakeholders to spearhead Nigeria's climate transition and transform awareness into concrete action.
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According to him: "Today we launch a movement, the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, it is more than a program of events across our state, it is a national call to action, a call to innovation and opportunity.
"Climate change is no longer a distant focus. It is here. It affects our farmers in the north who are facing the encroachment of the drought. It affects our coastal communities in the south, which are confronted with erosion and flooding across the country.
"It affects our businesses, management of energy costs, and supply chain disruption, and it affects our young people whose future depends on the choices we make today.
"Let me be clear. Climate change is not only about risk. It's about opportunity. Nigeria stands at a defining moment in history. The global transition to low-carbon development is accelerating. Capital is shifting. Markets are evolving. Technology is transforming industries. And the nations that position themselves wisely today will lead tomorrow. We intend to be one of those nations.
"Through this tour, we will take climate awareness beyond conference halls into communities. We will engage governors and traditional rulers. We will work with students, innovators, entrepreneurs, farmers, and financial institutions.
"We will identify bankable projects, we will unlock local solutions and we will strengthen Nigeria's capacity to mobilise climate finance on scale."
Tinubu stated that Nationally Determined Contributions are more than just documents, emphasising that they represent commitments to reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and safeguard communities.
He further said, "But commitments must be matched with action. And action must be supported by investment.
"This tour helps bridge that gap. We will use it to catalyse project pipelines, at the sub-national level, we will also use it to deepen our understanding of carbon markets and green finance.
"We will use it to mobilise partnerships between the public and the private sector. And we will use it to inspire a new generation of climate leaders.
"To our governors, we are set as the engine of climate resilience and green growth. To the private sector, the future economy will reward those who innovate boldly and invest responsibly. To our development partners, Nigeria is ready to collaborate with transparency, ambition, and accountability.
"As our young people, this transition belongs to you. Your ideas, your technology, your entrepreneurship will shape the Nigeria of tomorrow. This aligns with our Renewed Hope Agenda. An agenda that recognises that sustainable development, energy security, food security, and economic growth are not competing priorities. There are interconnected pillars of national prosperity. Climate finance is not a charity. It is a strategic investment.
"Climate resilience is not optional; it is national security and climate leadership is not a budget. It is a result we accept with confidence. As we plan this tour today, let us know that Nigeria chooses leadership over hesitation."
Earlier in his remarks, Lawal, who was represented by the Director, Federal Forestry, Halima Bawa, said that consolidating climate governance at the state level through performance rankings, institutional reforms, and inter-state collaboration frameworks would position Nigeria as an emerging leader in climate action across Africa.
The Minister underscored the urgency of confronting climate change, noting that its effects are already evident across Nigeria from desert encroachment in the North and flooding in riverine communities to coastal erosion in the South and erratic rainfall patterns affecting farmers nationwide.
His words: "Climate change is no longer an abstract global discussion. It is here with us, from desert encroachment in the North, to flooding across our riverine communities, to coastal erosion in the South, and changing rainfall patterns affecting our farmers nationwide, showing the impacts are real, and actions, urgent.
"Nigeria has responded with decisive leadership. The enactment of the Climate Change Act 2021 established a historic legal framework for coordinated climate governance, carbon budgeting, and a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2060.
"It institutionalised climate action across all sectors in the country, signaling Nigeria's solemnity under the Paris Agreement. However, climate governance must move beyond the federal level; it must be domesticated at the subnational and grassroots levels."
The Ministry, he stated, has partnered with state governments to formalise climate governance structures, including appointing Subnational Directors of Climate Change and establishing Climate Change Desks across state Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to drive coordinated policy implementation.
"The climate future lies with the youth. Through the Eco-School Initiative, we are mainstreaming environmental education and climate awareness in schools across Nigeria.
"Furthermore, the Ministry implemented the Youth Climate Innovation Hub, a platform designed to harness climate innovative ideas and continue to interface with young people for the implementation of practical climate solutions.
"The Uni-Go-Green Initiative aims to empower young Nigerians with skills and mentorship in green entrepreneurship, climate technology, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy solutions, and digital climate services.
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"We want Nigerian youths not only to advocate for climate action but also to build businesses and careers around it."
Lawal stressed that climate action must reach the grassroots, describing the tour as a national movement and urging governments, the private sector, civil society, and citizens to actively drive climate solutions.
The Guest Speaker, Prof. Babajide Alo, who presented a paper titled 'Securing Our Climate Future: Empowering Communities for a Resilient Nigeria,' emphasised that building a climate-resilient future requires moving from top-down technocratic approaches to locally led adaptation.
He stated, "To secure our Climate future, develop our economy and improve our resilience, built on sustainable development, we should therefore revisit our priorities and lifestyles, imbibe responsible consumption and production, and enforce the reduction of carbon footprints in all sectors in line with the severity of emerging Climate Change challenges.
"We need to improve our subnationals drastically -the States - climate action and climate readiness by improving their capacities. Increase climate education and awareness at the subnational level, especially at the grassroots and empower our Local Governments and communities at the Subnational levels and enhance their access to resources and capacity to implement. Through that we, we can foster sustainable, adaptive, and prosperous communities."

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Nigeria: Tinubu Tasks Govs, Private Sector, Others to Lead Nigeria's Climate Transition, Action

Jewel Environmental Initiative (JEI), a Gombe State-based non-governmental organisation, has commended President Bola Tinubu for launching the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT).
In a press statement signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Ismail Bima, JEI said it fully supports the initiative and backs efforts to raise climate change awareness nationwide.
According to Bima, the programme has the potential to inspire climate action through innovation, education, and sustainable development.
'With the growing impact of climate change in Nigeria, particularly in the North, this initiative is not only timely but urgently needed to build a climate-resilient and sustainable future for all Nigerians,' he said.
Bima highlighted the lack of adequate climate information in rural communities and stressed that campaigns like REHCCAT can cultivate a culture of awareness, partnership, and resilience. He noted that such efforts are critical for protecting livelihoods, the environment, and humanity.
'We must invest in solution-driven approaches to climate change and make practical efforts to mitigate its effects, so farmers and other key stakeholders can find relief,' Bima added.
He further commended President Tinubu and the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal, urging all stakeholders to lend their support. 'Climate change impacts everyone. This is the moment to consolidate ongoing efforts and strengthen grassroots resilience,' he said.
President Tinubu inaugurated REHCCAT on Tuesday in Abuja during a ceremony at the State House Conference. The initiative aims to promote climate resilience and sustainable development across Nigeria, with a call for governors, private sector actors, and other stakeholders to lead the country's climate transition and turn awareness into practical action.

Jewel Environmental Initiative (JEI), a Gombe State-based non-governmental organisation, has commended President Bola Tinubu for launching

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For the fifth consecutive year, CBS has led corporate broadcast climate coverage. In 2025, CBS accounted for 48% of total broadcast climate minutes. Both its nightly news program, CBS Evening News , and its Sunday morning political show, Face the Nation , led their counterparts in climate programming.
But volume of coverage is not the only indicator cementing CBS' role as the top climate communicator in corporate broadcast news. While networks underreported the Trump administration's attacks on climate science and action overall, CBS accounted for more than half of the segments that did discuss the Trump administration's climate actions. As in prior years, the network also led on solutions-related climate segments and coverage that included climate scientists.
In October 2025, months after the Trump administration greenlit Skydance Media's acquisition of CBS' parent company, Paramount Skydance installed Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. The newly created position granted Weiss broad authority over editorial priorities, and soon after her appointment, CBS dismissed most of its dedicated climate team as part of a newsroom restructuring, removing much of the institutional capacity responsible for the network's climate coverage portfolio. According to Heated, a memo announcing the layoffs from Paramount Skydance head David Ellison indicated that the network was ''phasing out roles that are no longer aligned with our evolving priorities.'' Heated further reported that 'today, the only person remaining at CBS News to cover climate change is national environmental correspondent David Schechter, who no longer has a dedicated producer.'
The editorial implications of this shift are consequential. Under Weiss' leadership, The Free Press has consistently elevated climate skeptics and contrarians, published content downplaying or misrepresenting established scientific findings, and employed rhetorical frames long associated with right-wing media coverage of climate change.
While journalists and staff exit CBS, Weiss is bringing on influencers who may not adhere to the same journalistic standards. One hire, Peter Attia, a controversial longevity influencer, has already resigned due to backlash over lewd emails he exchanged with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a less-reported exchange, Attia shared an article with Epstein from prominent British climate skeptic Matt Ridley, who has argued that 'global warming is good for us.'
CBS' climate output has already shown a discernible decline since its change in leadership. After Weiss assumed editorial control in early October, CBS aired only 7 climate segments through the end of 2025, marking an immediate contraction in the network's climate reporting footprint relative to earlier months in the year and as compared to the same period in 2024.
One segment about youth climate anxiety aired during the December 29 episode of CBS Evening News elevated and echoed right-wing media's approach to minimizing climate risk by laundering a narrative long used to shift attention away from climate consequences and responsibility toward cultural debates about individual life choices.
In 2025, CBS aired 54 minutes of climate coverage in January, making it the network's peak month. This year, the network aired only one climate segment in January — a headline report on the evening news lasting approximately 20 seconds on the surprising health of polar bears, despite the loss of sea ice, in the Norwegian Arctic. While the report may seem innocuous, it is not breaking news; a similar study appeared on a climate skeptic site in 2015, and the argument has been used by climate deniers to claim that alarmists were wrong about the severity of climate change and its impacts — in this case, on the 'symbol of climate change,' the polar bear. The new study was also shared on climate denier Marc Morano's site. With a seeming nod to the climate skeptic community, Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil concluded: 'Experts say the bears are still in trouble long term, but hey, the experts have been wrong before.'
But the segment was not just a nod toward skeptics. It represents a choice on the part of CBS to report an outlier of the climate crisis rather than any number of studies or events that support the overwhelming consensus on global warming. These newsroom changes in quantity and quality of coverage, which bear the fingerprints of Weiss' contrarian approach to news, signal a looming void in the national climate information ecosystem.
Broadcast news remains a central agenda setter, shaping not only national narratives but also the priorities of policymakers, regulators, and institutional decision-makers while continuing to reach large audiences. A sustained reduction in climate coverage risks leaving the public less prepared to understand the stakes of climate policy decisions, the material consequences of regulatory changes, and the growing disparities in climate risk across communities.
Within this broader contraction, changes at CBS News carry outsized significance.
If CBS retreats from its prior role as the corporate broadcast climate-reporting leader, responsibility for sustaining rigorous, science-based, and context-rich coverage will fall more heavily on NBC and ABC. To meet that responsibility, broadcast networks must increase reliance on climate scientists, policy experts, and frontline communities; integrate federal climate actions and regulatory changes far more consistently into climate coverage; move beyond episodic weather reporting toward sustained examination of systemic drivers and solutions; and resist political and market pressures that undermine the visibility and credibility of climate journalism.
Without such shifts, the contraction in climate coverage documented in 2025 risks deepening in 2026, at a moment when climate impacts are accelerating, federal policy is in retrenchment, and voters are approaching a consequential midterm election cycle with diminishing access to the kind of clear, comprehensive climate information needed to make informed decisions.

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This week I hosted a 'Hoon' on Substack Live previewing The Reality of Everything symposium to be held at Victoria University of Wellington on June 26, which will examine the interconnected crises of climate change, energy, water & food constraints, economic instability & public health.
I was joined by regular Hoon guest Cathrine Dyer, substacker and symposium facilitator Catherine Knight, conference speaker and epidemiologist Professor Alistair Woodward from the University of Auckland, and fellow public health specialist Associate Professor Caroline Shaw from the University of Otago.
We started by talking about the need for the Symposium and referring to the National Emergency Briefing held in the UK last year, including an address by Professor Hugh Montgomery, a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London. The video of his address is below via Youtube.
We talked about the intersection of public health and climate change, emphasizing the urgent need for a comprehensive approach to public health in the face of climate, resource and economic crises.
We talked about tobacco control as a precedent for health policy, the social determinants of health, and the benefits of e-bikes. The conversation concludes with recommendations for policymakers to prioritize health and well-being in climate action.
Here's Catherine's substack post announcing the conference.
And a follow-up post with the latest details.
Here's the chapters in the video above:
00:00 Introduction to the Reality of Everything Symposium
02:43 Understanding the Interconnected Crises
05:36 Climate Change and Health Risks
07:18 Tobacco Control as a Model for Climate Action
11:41 Social Determinants of Health and Climate Change
15:29 Transport, Health, and Climate Change Solutions
18:10 Rethinking Emergencies and Public Health
19:05 Transport Policies and Health Implications
21:20 Access Over Infrastructure: A New Perspective
22:19 The Hidden Health Costs of Transport
24:23 E-Bikes: A Healthier Alternative
25:34 Policy Solutions for Health and Climate Change
29:18 Public Health as Climate Action
31:48The Economic Case for Climate Action
Thank you Susan St John, Mike Joy, Paul Singh, Melanie, Brian Rathbone, and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app.

I hosted a 'Hoon' previewing The Reality of Everything symposium, examining the interconnected crises of climate change, energy, water & food constraints, economic instability & public health

A Hoon on The Reality of Everything Symposium, interconnected crises & Public Health

Key Facts: Climate Action Week Sydney features over 250 community-led events across Sydney from 9-15 March
Opening Day at UTS will bring together government leaders, energy experts, First Nations representatives, youth advocates, and business leaders to promote local climate action
New national polling conducted in the lead up reveals growing concern about the impacts of climate change and demand for more to be done locally, particularly among younger Australians
Almost half of young people are more concerned about climate change than last year (42% of those 18- 24) and nearly 4 in 10 are feeling anxious (38%)
Events include practical workshops, factory tours, ocean experiences and family activities across Greater Sydney regions, with many free or low-cost
The program builds on the success of CAWSYD 2025 which saw over 12,500 participants
With just one week to go, the full program for Climate Action Week Sydney 2026 has been announced, featuring over 250 community-led events taking place across Greater Sydney from 9-15 March. The CAWSYD26 program includes a jam-packed Opening Day at UTS bringing together senior government and public sector leaders, international energy experts, First Nations voices, youth climate advocates, investors and business leaders in a powerful call for local climate action. This year's program spans six themes, Oceans & Water, Health & Wellbeing, Food & Agriculture, Fuels & Energy, Nature & Biodiversity, and Green Tech & Finance, with First Nations leadership, youth voices and practical solutions woven throughout. From policy and finance forums to factory tours, electrification workshops, ocean experiences and family-friendly activities, there is something for everyone interested in climate action. Climate Action Week Sydney Program Director Lauren Houghton said the CAWSYD26 program reflects the reality that climate action now touches every sector and every community.
"Climate action is happening in suburbs, workplaces and communities, but it requires continued leadership and collaboration to meet the urgency and scale of the challenge, and to fully realise the benefits. Climate Action Week Sydney is focused on practical solutions, bringing people together to share ideas, form new connections and build momentum.
"Whether you're a student, a business or public sector leader, a parent, an investor or someone who cares about your community, there is an event for you at Climate Action Week Sydney," Ms Houghton said. New national polling conducted in the lead up to Climate Action Week Sydney[1] reveals growing concern about the impacts of climate change and demand for more to be done locally, particularly among younger Australians.
The research shows 1 in 3 Australians are more concerned about climate change than they were this time last year (32%). Meanwhile, 1 in 4 feel anxious about Australia's future in a changing climate (24%) and fewer than 1 in 7 feel optimistic (14%). Concern is significantly higher among younger Australians. Almost half of young people are more concerned than last year (42% of those 18- 24), and nearly 4 in 10 are feeling anxious (38%).
This concern is grounded in people's experiences. More than 1 in 4 say extreme weather has changed how they think about climate change (27%), over 1 in 5 say climate change is already affecting where they live (22%), and 1 in 3 are concerned about the impacts of climate change on the economy (34%).
In addition, more than 1 in 7 say they are more worried about climate change since the United States stepped back from climate leadership (15%). The polling also underscores the strong demand for leadership, with 1 in 4 Australians wanting governments (26%) and large businesses (25%) to do more to support climate action.
Climate Action Week Sydney Program Director Lauren Houghton said the findings highlight both urgency and opportunity in a defining year for climate action.
"In a year when Australia will take a key role as President of Negotiations for COP31, the world will be watching. Local leadership and local action matters. Australians are feeling the impacts of climate change more directly. They are concerned about extreme weather, about economic impacts and about what the future holds. People are looking for solutions and leadership. Change happens locally, and Climate Action Week Sydney is about turning concern into connection, and connection into action," Ms Houghton said.
CAWSYD26 is led by the Climate Action Foundation with the support of major sponsors including Future Super, the NSW Government and Boundless. Building on the momentum of 2025, when more than 12,500 people took part, CAWSYD26 continues to grow as Australia's premier climate action event.
Get involved. Climate Action Week Sydney runs from 9-15 March 2026. To view the full program and register for events, visit www.caw.sydney.
Climate Action Week Sydney 2026 program highlights:
A jam-packed Opening Day at UTS on Monday 9 March including The Hon Chris Bowen MP (Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy), The Hon Clover Moore AO (Lord Mayor of Sydney), David Hochschild (Chair of the California Energy Commission), Matt Kean (Chair of the Climate Change Authority), Kate Williams (CEO of 1% for the Planet) and remarks from Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN Special Envoy for Climate Change.
Youth-focused and First Nations-led events including a workshop exploring what COP31 means for young people as well as Pacific Women's Blueprint: Spotlight on Vanuatu.
Industry, community and local action showcases across Greater Sydney including a Snorkel-Out for Climate, a Climate Tech Careers Night connecting students with employers, Business with Purpose leadership talks, an AEVA Electric Vehicle Rally, a Living Seawalls Tour, as well as a Sports Climate Forum: Surf n Turf Game Show. Many events are free or low-cost to attend.
Climate action events are also held across Greater Sydney as part of CAWSYD26 (9-15 March 2026)
Western Sydney
North Shore & Northern Beaches
Eastern Suburbs
Inner West
[1] National survey of 1,000 Australians conducted by Pure Profile on behalf of the Climate Action Foundation in 2026
About us:
About Climate Action Week Sydney and the Climate Action Foundation Climate Action Week Sydney (CAW.SYD) is Australia's premier climate action event, uniting communities, businesses, and organisations to drive climate action impact. Held annually and coordinated by the not-for-profit Climate Action Foundation, CAW.SYD showcases Sydney's leadership in climate innovation and collaboration through a diverse program of community-led events. The Climate Action Foundation is a charitable organisation that funds, supports, and delivers initiatives for a positive impact on the climate. For more, visit www.caw.sydney and www.climateaction.foundation.

Key Facts:Climate Action Week Sydney features over 250 community-led events across Sydney from 9-15 March Opening Day at UTS will bring together

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Guest Post by Robert Bradley, Jr. at Master Resource.
Ron Clutz of Science Matters is one of many 'talented amateurs' who has worked to correct climate exaggeration and check the excesses of the United Nations' IPCC/COP process.
Ron has more than 30 years experience leading projects analyzing and transforming organizational processes and structures. Ron has designed and administered change management programs involving small groups of executives, as well as organizational interventions involving several hundred people. He has given seminars and lectures and has written manuals and articles on task-group leadership and on strategic planning.
As a KPMG partner until 1997 he led that firm's work in Organizational Effectiveness in Canada. He developed and promoted internationally a computer-based performance improvement program called SPANS. Ron is a graduate of Stanford University in Chemistry and has been a member of the Canadian Institute of Management Consultants (C.M.C.), the Association of Human Resources Professionals, and the American Society for Training and Development.
Ron's post, Why Climate Alarmists Can't Recant, is an example of his work. Clutz's recent comment at MasterResource is worth publishing here, after which I add my observations on the reasons for the futile, wasteful crusade.
Ted Nordhaus explained why, unlike Gates, doomsters can't recant [in his] paper:
Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist…. In 'Why Climate Doomsters Can't Recant,' I offered [several] reasons [for] why do so many smart people, most trained as scientists, engineers, lawyers, or public policy experts, and all who will tell you, and I say this not ironically, that they 'believe in science,' get the science of climate risk so badly wrong?
The first [reason] is that highly educated people with high levels of science literacy are no less likely to get basic scientific issues wrong than anyone else when the facts conflict with their social identities and ideological commitments. Yale Law Professor Dan Kahan has shown that people who are highly concerned about climate change actually have less accurate views about climate change overall than climate skeptics and that this remains true even among partisans with high levels of education and general science literacy.
Elsewhere, Kahan and others have demonstrated that on many issues, highly educated people are often more likely to stubbornly hold onto erroneous beliefs because they are more expert at defending their political views and ideological commitments.
The second reason is that if you make a living doing left of center climate and energy policy, there are strong social, political, and professional incentives to get climate risk wrong. The capture of Democratic and progressive politics by environmentalism over the last generation has been close to total. There is little tolerance on the Left for any expression of materialist politics that challenge foundational claims of the environmental movement.
Meanwhile the climate movement has effectively conflated consensus science about the reality and anthropogenic origins of climate change with catastrophist claims about climate risk for which there is no consensus whatsoever.
Finally, there is a widespread belief that one can't make a strong case for clean energy and technological innovation absent the catastrophic specter of climate change. 'Why bother with nuclear power or clean energy if climate change is not a catastrophic risk,' is a frequent response.
And this view simply ignores the entire history of modern energy innovation. Over the last two centuries, the world has moved inexorably from dirtier and more carbon intensive technologies to cleaner ones. Burning coal, despite its significant environmental impacts, is cleaner than burning wood and dung. Burning gas is cleaner than coal.
But as a practical matter, there is no evidence whatsoever that 35 years of increasingly dire rhetoric and claims about climate change have had any impact on the rate at which the global energy system has decarbonized. And by some measure, the world decarbonized faster over the 35 years prior to climate change emerging as a global concern than it did in the 35 years since.
To this I can add:
Natural scientists do not understand economics (opportunity cost) well and have political biases toward Statism, which is the great employer of experts as 'the smartest guys in the room.' Deep Ecology reigns high: the belief that Nature (capital N) is optimal and fragile. So, any human interference cannot be good, only bad or worse. Not true! As Alex Epstein memorably put it:
'The popular climate discussion … looks at man as a destructive force for climate livability … because we use fossil fuels. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite; we don't take a safe climate and make it dangerous; we take a dangerous climate and make it safe. High-energy civilization, not climate, is the driver of climate livability.' (The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, pp. 126–127)
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The Climate Network, which represents 16 civil society organizations active in the climate field in Türkiye, shared its expectations for the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Türkiye this November.
A meeting was held in Istanbul earlier this week to discuss issues related to combating climate change, and participants stressed the need for more concrete actions beyond the current framework.
Member organizations of the network focused on steps to be developed in addition to the climate law that entered into force in the summer of 2025, aiming to combat climate change in line with the green growth vision and net-zero emission target.
The law states that measures will be taken in this framework, taking into account the country's development priorities and special conditions in line with the net-zero emission target.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), Pınar Ceren Gayretli, one of the founders of the Climate Network and senior expert at WWF Türkiye's Climate and Energy Program, said the most important deficiency in the climate law is the lack of a clear emission reduction target.
She stated that changes such as amending the definition of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) in the law directing a certain portion of revenue from the emissions trading system to just transition were realized with the suggestions of the Climate Network.
According to the law, revenues obtained from the ETS and related carbon markets can be recorded as special revenue in the general budget and used for combating climate change and green transformation purposes, while up to 10% of these revenues can be allocated to just transition practices.
"As the Climate Network, we expect COP31 to be the one where Türkiye decides to phase out coal," Gayretli said.
Türkiye is currently finalizing a more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target and its long-term low-emission strategy until 2053, with greater focus on renewable energy, energy efficiency, just transition in coal regions and nature-based solutions.
The Climate Network, formed in January 2025 by 16 Turkish civil society organizations, including the European branch of the Climate Action Network (CAN Europe), has continued coordinated initiatives focused on policy advocacy, public awareness and local climate projects.
The COP31 will be held in Türkiye this November, primarily in the Turkish Riviera resort of Antalya, with the leaders' summit in Istanbul.
At the gathering, nearly 200 countries are expected to convene in Türkiye to discuss the next steps in implementing the Paris Agreement, including updated emission reduction targets, adaptation measures, climate finance and carbon market rules.

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Julius Berger Nigeria PLC has joined forces with the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, a national initiative aimed at promoting climate resilience and sustainable development across Nigeria, to further the project's goals.
The initiative was inaugurated inside the State House Conference Centre in Abuja.
Speaking at the event, President Bola Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, urged governors, Organised Private Sector (OPS) actors and fellow stakeholders to lead Nigeria's climate transition, transforming awareness into practical action at all levels, while calling on governors, private sector leaders, and stakeholders to accelerate the country's transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy.
Tinubu said climate change was not only a risk but also an opportunity for innovation, growth, and national development.
'Today we inaugurate a movement, the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour. It is a national call to action, a call to innovation, opportunity, and sustainable development for all Nigerians,' the President said.
Stressing that Nigeria stands at a defining moment as the global transition to low-carbon development accelerates, Tinubu said: 'Capital is shifting, markets are evolving, and technology is transforming industries. Nigeria intends to lead tomorrow.'
He explained that the tour would take climate awareness beyond conference halls to communities, engaging governors, traditional rulers, students, innovators, entrepreneurs, farmers, and financial institutions nationwide.
By doing so, he added that bankable projects would be identified, local solutions unlocked, climate finance capacity strengthened, and public-private partnerships mobilised.
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o the stakeholders, the President said nationally determined contributions were commitments to reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and safeguard communities, saying: 'Commitments must be matched with action, supported by investment, and this tour bridges that gap.'
Also, the Director of Forestry in the ministry, Halima Bawa, stressed the urgency of confronting climate change, noting its effects, including desert encroachment, flooding, coastal erosion, and erratic rainfall affecting farmers.
Lawal lauded the Climate Change Act 2021 for establishing a legal framework for coordinated climate governance, carbon budgeting, and a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2060, institutionalising climate action across sectors.
Special Assistant to the President on Climate Change Matters, Yussuf Kelani, said the tour represented a national movement grounded in leadership, collaboration, and commitment to Nigeria's environmental and economic security.
Kelani, Chairman of the REHCCAT Committee, said the initiative sought to democratise climate knowledge, align federal and state-level action with Nigeria's NDCs, and mobilise partnerships, green jobs, and climate finance.
Guest Speaker, Prof. Babajide Alo, emphasised that climate resilience requires locally led adaptation, community empowerment, and capacity-building to actively manage climate risks and implement sustainable solutions.
Last September, Nigeria submitted its NDC 3.0, committing to reduce GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 32 per cent by 2035. The country has now committed to reducing GHG by 29 per cent by 2030 and 32 per cent by 2035 compared to the 2018 levels.

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President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday flagged off the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), a nationwide campaign designed to deepen climate resilience, unlock green investments, and position Nigeria as a leader in Africa's low-carbon transition.
Launching the initiative at the State House, Abuja, the President, represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, described the tour as a 'national call to action' that moves climate conversations from conference halls to communities.
Tinubu said climate change is no longer a distant concern but a present challenge affecting farmers battling desert encroachment in the North, coastal communities facing erosion in the South, and businesses grappling with energy costs and supply chain disruptions nationwide.
He, however, framed the crisis as an opportunity.
'Nigeria stands at a defining moment,' he stated. 'The global shift to low-carbon development is accelerating.
'Capital is moving. Markets are evolving. Nations that position themselves wisely today will lead tomorrow, and we intend to be one of them.'
The President said the tour would engage governors, traditional rulers, youth, innovators, farmers, and financial institutions to identify bankable climate projects and strengthen Nigeria's capacity to mobilize climate finance at scale.
He stressed that Nigeria's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) must translate from commitments on paper into tangible investments and measurable outcomes.
'Climate finance is not charity; it is strategic investment.
'Climate resilience is not optional, it is national security,' he declared, urging state governments to serve as engines of green growth and calling on the private sector to innovate boldly and invest responsibly.
In his remarks, Lawal said Nigeria had laid a strong legal foundation with the enactment of the Climate Change Act 2021, which established a framework for carbon budgeting and a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2060.
He noted that the next phase requires deepening implementation at subnational levels through performance rankings, institutional reforms, and inter-state collaboration.
According to him, the ministry has partnered with states to appoint Subnational Directors of Climate Change and establish climate desks across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to drive coordinated action.
Lawal also highlighted youth-focused programmes, including the Eco-School Initiative, the Youth Climate Innovation Hub, and the Uni-Go-Green Initiative, aimed at equipping young Nigerians with skills in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy solutions, and green enterprise.
Chairman of the REHCCAT Committee and Special Assistant to the President on Climate Change Matters, Comrade Yussuf Olatunji Kelani, said the tour would move across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones, beginning with two strategic states per zone in its first phase.
He explained that each stop would feature high-level policy dialogues with governors and lawmakers, town hall meetings with community stakeholders, technical roundtables with development partners, and innovation showcases highlighting clean energy, climate-smart agriculture, waste-to-value solutions, and methane abatement technologies.
'This is a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach,' Kelani said. 'We are taking climate action into markets, farms, classrooms, and policy chambers.'
Guest speaker, Professor Babajide Alo, in a paper titled Securing Our Climate Future: Empowering Communities for a Resilient Nigeria, emphasized the need to move from top-down climate strategies to locally driven adaptation models.
He urged federal and state governments to strengthen subnational capacity, increase grassroots climate education, and create funding frameworks that allow states to implement context-specific solutions.
'Empowering communities is not only a survival strategy; it is a proactive pathway to sustainable development,' he said, calling for stronger enforcement mechanisms and partnerships among government, private sector, and civil society.
At the event, the President also named Senior Special Assistant on Climate Change Matters, Ibrahim Shelleng, and Special Assistant on Climate Change Financing, Olamide Fagbuji, as co-chairmen of the tour committee alongside Kelani.
The Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, officials said, is expected to serve as a catalyst for mobilizing partnerships, stimulating green jobs, and aligning Nigeria's climate ambitions with economic growth and long-term national resilience.

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday flagged off the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), a nationwide campaign

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Nine clusters of Franconian climate during the 2070–2099 period, based on a multi-model ensemble of high-resolution regional climate model projections under the RCP8.5 emission scenario. Credit: Scientific Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-42040-x
Due to climate change, agriculture is facing an unprecedented transformation. While Germany was hardly affected by massive crop failures for decades, the picture has changed drastically since 2015. Since then, heat waves and dry spells have been responsible for yield losses in half of all cases.
Against this backdrop, a research team from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) shows that uncontrolled climate change will radically change German agriculture by 2100 and could bring Mediterranean crops to Franconia. The team has analyzed the future of regional agriculture under the scenario of unchecked climate change as part of the EU-funded BigData@Geo 2.0 project.
Franconia: Central Europe in miniature
The Franconia region serves as "Central Europe in miniature." Due to its heterogeneous topography—from low-lying river valleys to low mountain ranges above 1,000 meters—the region is representative of large parts of Central Europe. The results therefore have a signaling effect for the whole of Germany: what is being researched here today describes the challenges that agriculture could soon face nationwide.
The interdisciplinary team is composed of scientists from the fields of climate research, computer science and remote sensing. First author Dr. Luzia Keupp is a research assistant in the climatology department of Professor Heiko Paeth. The team has published its findings in the journal Scientific Reports .
Shifting climate zones
To make this future tangible, the researchers used a method known as climate analogs. They identified regions in Europe where the climatic conditions that are predicted for Franconia by the end of the 21st century already prevail today. They not only compared 28 climate-relevant indicators, but also took into account soil characteristics such as clay and sand content as well as pH values in order to ensure that the locations are truly comparable.
The key result: "Our analyses show a massive shift in the climate zones," explains Keupp. "In the future, the higher mountain regions of Franconia will experience a climate similar to the one we know today from the northern German lowlands. The lower valleys, on the other hand, will experience conditions that are typical of the Po Valley in northern Italy or Gascony in south-west France."
Change of variety: Wheat stays, the olive comes
The study predicts what this means for agriculture in Franconia:
Some less heat-loving crops will become less important. These primarily include barley, sugar beet and fodder crops such as silage maize and fodder oilseeds.
Other products may hold their own or will gain in importance. This applies to rye, wheat, rapeseed and maize. Viticulture will also become significantly more important in almost all parts of Franconia.
As the climate moves closer to the Mediterranean region, new crops that are currently considered "exotic" in Franconia could become attractive: These include peaches, olives, tropical fruits, almonds, hazelnuts and chestnuts. From a climatic point of view, the cultivation of rice would also be possible. Sorghum, a millet-like crop, could also gain in importance as a heat-resistant alternative.
However, it will not be possible to implement these findings one-to-one. "The necessary heat alone does not make Franconia a rice-growing region," say the researchers. While rice in the Po Valley is irrigated by abundant meltwater from the Alps, Franconia lacks this hydrological resource. Even with olives, there is a residual risk of extreme weather events: A single cold snap with temperatures below -8.3°C could destroy entire crops.
The scientists also see social and economic barriers. "The cultivation of new varieties requires new expertise, specialized technology and completely new logistics chains and markets," says Keupp. Accordingly, these changes require forward-looking decisions, as permanent crops such as fruit trees or vines in particular remain in the ground for decades and therefore represent the most capital-intensive investments a farm can make.
When the climate in Würzburg moves to the south of France
If climate change continues unchecked, the study predicts drastic changes for Franconia:
Mediterranean climate: By the end of the 21st century, the climate in most parts of Franconia will be similar to that of today's regions in the northern Mediterranean, south-west France or northern Italy.
Extended growing season: The growing season is expected to lengthen by about 70 to 80 days.
Weather extremes: A summer warming of around 4°C is expected, accompanied by more heavy rainfall events, but also a significantly higher number of drought days.
Publication details
Luzia Keupp et al, Undamped climate change poses the need for substantial shifts in cultivated crop types in Germany, Scientific Reports (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-42040-x
Journal information: Scientific Reports

Due to climate change, agriculture is facing an unprecedented transformation. While Germany was hardly affected by massive crop failures for decades, the picture has changed drastically since 2015. Since then, heat waves and dry spells have been responsible for yield losses in half of all cases.

Franconia's agriculture of the future: Olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet?

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Distributional economic impacts of temporary overshoot in time and space. Credit: Nature Climate Change (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-026-02563-7
Temporary overshoot of global temperature targets—particularly the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement—is no longer just a modeling concept. New research, published in Nature Climate Change and led by the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC) in collaboration with 14 research institutions from 10 countries, traces how overshoot has evolved over the past three decades, from a scenario tool used to explore ambitious targets to a structural feature of climate scenarios, reflecting the tension between more ambitious temperature targets and continued emissions growth. What began as a modeling tool to explore climate goals has become an almost inevitable outcome in pathways compatible with the Paris Agreement.
The research shows that limited overshoot—for example, temporary warming to around 1.8°C—does not change the fundamental timeline to global net zero CO₂ emissions, still expected between 2050 and 2060. "In a world of limited overshoot, the core objective of strong decarbonization and net zero remains intact," says CMCC's scientist Massimo Tavoni. "What overshoot does, however, is to reshape how the transition unfolds, how we implement the transition, manage risks, and ensure policies are fair and effective."
Although the timeline for reaching net-zero emissions remains unchanged, overshoot changes how climate impacts and mitigation efforts are felt over time. Even small overshoots make extreme events more likely, with greater social and economic consequences. They can also shift mitigation burdens across generations, potentially placing more strain on future societies.
The long-term effects depend on how persistent climate damages turn out to be—an area where significant uncertainty remains. "If impacts cause lasting physical or social disruptions, temporary overshoot could leave enduring consequences even after temperatures fall," says Tavoni. "If damages are more reversible and adaptation measures are effective, the long-term impacts may be more limited. Understanding this persistence is crucial to understanding recovery from overshoot."
Overshoot also increases the demand for carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, since excess CO₂ must be actively removed for temperatures to decline. Yet the study emphasizes that CDR is needed even in pathways with limited overshoot, and that its scale ultimately depends more on policy choices than on overshoot itself. Larger overshoots beyond Paris targets, however, create deep uncertainties, potentially requiring extensive mitigation measures whose feasibility and implications are still largely unknown.
The study underscores the importance of interdisciplinary approaches that combine physical climate science, ecological systems, socioeconomic processes, and uncertainty analysis. By integrating these dimensions, future models can better inform climate strategies in a world where temporary overshoot is unavoidable.
"Overshoot is no longer just an abstract scenario," adds Tavoni. "It is a reality that both scientists and policymakers must navigate carefully. Addressing overshoot effectively requires integrating physical, ecological, and socioeconomic dimensions, and carefully accounting for uncertainty in future scenarios. Indeed, we can remain on track to meet the Paris Agreement's goals."
Publication details
Massimo Tavoni et al, Implications of overshoot for climate mitigation strategies, Nature Climate Change (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-026-02563-7
Journal information: Nature Climate Change
Provided by Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change

Temporary overshoot of global temperature targets—particularly the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement—is no longer just a modeling concept. New research, published in Nature Climate Change and led by the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC) in collaboration with 14 research institutions from 10 countries, traces how overshoot has evolved over the past three decades, from a scenario tool used to explore ambitious targets to a structural feature of climate scenarios, reflecting the tension between more ambitious temperature targets and continued emissions growth. What began as a modeling tool to explore climate goals has become an almost inevitable outcome in pathways compatible with the Paris Agreement.

Overshoot reshapes climate strategies—but the path to net zero remains unchanged

• Launches renewed hope climate change awareness tour
Deji Elumoye in Abuja
President Bola Tinubu has formally launched the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour (REHCCAT), a nationwide initiative aimed at promoting climate resilience and sustainable development across Nigeria.
The President, represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, who launched REHCCAT at the State House, Abuja, called on governors, the private sector, and other stakeholders to spearhead Nigeria's climate transition and transform awareness into concrete action.
According to him: 'Today we launch a movement, the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, it is more than a program of events across our state, it is a national call to action, a call to innovation and opportunity.
'Climate change is no longer a distant focus. It is here. It affects our farmers in the north who are facing the encroachment of the drought. It affects our coastal communities in the south, which are confronted with erosion and flooding across the country.
'It affects our businesses, management of energy costs, and supply chain disruption, and it affects our young people whose future depends on the choices we make today.
'Let me be clear. Climate change is not only about risk. It's about opportunity. Nigeria stands at a defining moment in history. The global transition to low-carbon development is accelerating. Capital is shifting. Markets are evolving. Technology is transforming industries. And the nations that position themselves wisely today will lead tomorrow. We intend to be one of those nations.
'Through this tour, we will take climate awareness beyond conference halls into communities. We will engage governors and traditional rulers. We will work with students, innovators, entrepreneurs, farmers, and financial institutions.
'We will identify bankable projects, we will unlock local solutions and we will strengthen Nigeria's capacity to mobilise climate finance on scale.'
Tinubu stated that Nationally Determined Contributions are more than just documents, emphasising that they represent commitments to reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and safeguard communities.
He further said, 'But commitments must be matched with action. And action must be supported by investment.
'This tour helps bridge that gap. We will use it to catalyse project pipelines, at the sub-national level, we will also use it to deepen our understanding of carbon markets and green finance.
'We will use it to mobilise partnerships between the public and the private sector. And we will use it to inspire a new generation of climate leaders.
'To our governors, we are set as the engine of climate resilience and green growth. To the private sector, the future economy will reward those who innovate boldly and invest responsibly. To our development partners, Nigeria is ready to collaborate with transparency, ambition, and accountability.
'As our young people, this transition belongs to you. Your ideas, your technology, your entrepreneurship will shape the Nigeria of tomorrow. This aligns with our Renewed Hope Agenda. An agenda that recognises that sustainable development, energy security, food security, and economic growth are not competing priorities. There are interconnected pillars of national prosperity. Climate finance is not a charity. It is a strategic investment.
'Climate resilience is not optional; it is national security and climate leadership is not a budget. It is a result we accept with confidence. As we plan this tour today, let us know that Nigeria chooses leadership over hesitation.'
Earlier in his remarks, Lawal, who was represented by the Director, Federal Forestry, Halima Bawa, said that consolidating climate governance at the state level through performance rankings, institutional reforms, and inter-state collaboration frameworks would position Nigeria as an emerging leader in climate action across Africa.
The Minister underscored the urgency of confronting climate change, noting that its effects are already evident across Nigeria from desert encroachment in the North and flooding in riverine communities to coastal erosion in the South and erratic rainfall patterns affecting farmers nationwide.
His words: 'Climate change is no longer an abstract global discussion. It is here with us, from desert encroachment in the North, to flooding across our riverine communities, to coastal erosion in the South, and changing rainfall patterns affecting our farmers nationwide, showing the impacts are real, and actions, urgent.
'Nigeria has responded with decisive leadership. The enactment of the Climate Change Act 2021 established a historic legal framework for coordinated climate governance, carbon budgeting, and a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2060.
'It institutionalised climate action across all sectors in the country, signaling Nigeria's solemnity under the Paris Agreement. However, climate governance must move beyond the federal level; it must be domesticated at the subnational and grassroots levels.'
The Ministry, he stated, has partnered with state governments to formalise climate governance structures, including appointing Subnational Directors of Climate Change and establishing Climate Change Desks across state Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to drive coordinated policy implementation.
'The climate future lies with the youth. Through the Eco-School Initiative, we are mainstreaming environmental education and climate awareness in schools across Nigeria.
'Furthermore, the Ministry implemented the Youth Climate Innovation Hub, a platform designed to harness climate innovative ideas and continue to interface with young people for the implementation of practical climate solutions.
'The Uni-Go-Green Initiative aims to empower young Nigerians with skills and mentorship in green entrepreneurship, climate technology, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, circular economy solutions, and digital climate services.
'We want Nigerian youths not only to advocate for climate action but also to build businesses and careers around it.'
Lawal stressed that climate action must reach the grassroots, describing the tour as a national movement and urging governments, the private sector, civil society, and citizens to actively drive climate solutions.
The Guest Speaker, Prof. Babajide Alo, who presented a paper titled 'Securing Our Climate Future: Empowering Communities for a Resilient Nigeria,' emphasised that building a climate-resilient future requires moving from top-down technocratic approaches to locally led adaptation.
He stated, 'To secure our Climate future, develop our economy and improve our resilience, built on sustainable development, we should therefore revisit our priorities and lifestyles, imbibe responsible consumption and production, and enforce the reduction of carbon footprints in all sectors in line with the severity of emerging Climate Change challenges.
'We need to improve our subnationals drastically -the States – climate action and climate readiness by improving their capacities. Increase climate education and awareness at the subnational level, especially at the grassroots and empower our Local Governments and communities at the Subnational levels and enhance their access to resources and capacity to implement. Through that we, we can foster sustainable, adaptive, and prosperous communities.'

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Professor Oliver Heidrich has provided expert insight into a NATO report examining how climate change is a threat multiplier that is reshaping global security challenges.
Published by NATO's Science and Technology Organization (STO), The Effects of Climate Change on Security analyses how climate change impacts security and defence and how it transforms operations across NATO member states.
The publication brought together experts from 10 different NATO nations to assess how rising temperatures, extreme weather and environmental disruption are interconnected with the global and national security risks. It provides one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of how climate impacts political stability, military operations, infrastructure resilience and humanitarian challenges.
Based on detailed case studies from around the world, including North and West Africa, the Arctic and the Dnipro watershed, the report highlights that addressing climate‑related security risks requires collaboration between scientists, defence professionals, and policymakers.

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Scientists have taken to the salon after realising hairdressers may be an 'under-recognised' weapon in fuelling climate action.
Alongside their ability to fix your roots and get rid of those pesky dead ends, hairdressers are renowned for their conversation skills. Whether it's chatting about your upcoming holiday, plans for the weekend, or even ranting about your work – hairdressers have somehow become an agony aunt, counsellor and friend rolled into one.
New research from the University of Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST) - alongside a trio of other British universities – reveals that this is what makes hair salons 'hubs of trust' that could be used to encourage conversations around climate change.
Are hairdressers secret climate fighters?
The research team conducted in-depth interviews with 30 UK salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions.
They then ran a nationwide intervention in 25 sustainable salons using 'Mirror Talkers', where eco-tips are placed on salon mirrors to prompt sustainable haircare conversations.
'Most of us think a 'green' product is one with recyclable packaging, but the carbon footprint of shampoo is mostly in the hot water used,' says Denise Baden of the University of Southampton.
'Simple messages such as 'most of us use too much shampoo and shampoo too often' can prompt conversations about how shampooing less and at lower temperatures saves time, money, energy, water and is better for your skin and hair.'
'Valuable spaces' for climate engagement
The study, published in the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, found that almost 73 per cent of salon clients said they were likely to change their haircare routine after conversations prompted by the Mirror Talkers.
Some even reported switching to eco-friendly products, turning down their hot water, and changing habits at home.
Researchers say this demonstrates how hairdressers have an 'untapped ability' to weave climate change into everyday conversations and actions. They are now urging policymakers to roll out tools like Mirror Talkers nationally, and recognise that salons are valuable spaces for climate engagement.
'If we're serious about building a public movement for climate action, then it's time to invest in these unsung influencers because real change starts in everyday conversations,' says Dr Sam Hampton of CAST.
How salons are responding to climate concern
Matilda Collins, a senior director and stylist at Paul Edmonds London in the UK, tells Euronews Green that clients are becoming "more vocal" when it comes to the types of ingredients their hair products have.
At the same time, the salon is becoming increasingly aware of its own environmental footprint and implementing energy-saving changes – including a heat exchange system to reduce the need for constant water heating.
Euronews Green introduced the 'Mirror talkers' initiative to Collins, who says it could garner positive outcomes if the experience "feels natural and captures the client's attention without it feeling too virtuous".
She adds: "Ultimately, the relationship and trust that a stylist builds with the client is what will encourage a potential positive change in behaviour when we think about purchasing a specific brand.
"It could be a great education platform and prompt for the conversation, however."

Hair salons have become a 'hub of trust' that could encourage public engagement on climate change, new research has found.

How hairdressers could be the secret weapon in fighting climate change

Scientists have taken to the salon after realising hairdressers may be an 'under-recognised' weapon in fuelling climate action.
Alongside their ability to fix your roots and get rid of those pesky dead ends, hairdressers are renowned for their conversation skills. Whether it's chatting about your upcoming holiday, plans for the weekend, or even ranting about your work – hairdressers have somehow become an agony aunt, counsellor and friend rolled into one.
New research from the University of Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation (CAST) - alongside a trio of other British universities – reveals that this is what makes hair salons 'hubs of trust' that could be used to encourage conversations around climate change.
Are hairdressers secret climate fighters?
The research team conducted in-depth interviews with 30 UK salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions.
They then ran a nationwide intervention in 25 sustainable salons using 'Mirror Talkers', where eco-tips are placed on salon mirrors to prompt sustainable haircare conversations.
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'Most of us think a 'green' product is one with recyclable packaging, but the carbon footprint of shampoo is mostly in the hot water used,' says Denise Baden of the University of Southampton.
'Simple messages such as 'most of us use too much shampoo and shampoo too often' can prompt conversations about how shampooing less and at lower temperatures saves time, money, energy, water and is better for your skin and hair.'
'Valuable spaces' for climate engagement
The study, published in the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, found that almost 73 per cent of salon clients said they were likely to change their haircare routine after conversations prompted by the Mirror Talkers.
Some even reported switching to eco-friendly products, turning down their hot water, and changing habits at home.
Researchers say this demonstrates how hairdressers have an 'untapped ability' to weave climate change into everyday conversations and actions. They are now urging policymakers to roll out tools like Mirror Talkers nationally, and recognise that salons are valuable spaces for climate engagement.
'If we're serious about building a public movement for climate action, then it's time to invest in these unsung influencers because real change starts in everyday conversations,' says Dr Sam Hampton of CAST.
How salons are responding to climate concern
Matilda Collins, a senior director and stylist at Paul Edmonds London in the UK, tells Euronews Green that clients are becoming "more vocal" when it comes to the types of ingredients their hair products have.
At the same time, the salon is becoming increasingly aware of its own environmental footprint and implementing energy-saving changes – including a heat exchange system to reduce the need for constant water heating.
Euronews Green introduced the 'Mirror talkers' initiative to Collins, who says it could garner positive outcomes if the experience "feels natural and captures the client's attention without it feeling too virtuous".
She adds: "Ultimately, the relationship and trust that a stylist builds with the client is what will encourage a potential positive change in behaviour when we think about purchasing a specific brand.
"It could be a great education platform and prompt for the conversation, however."

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Balayage to biodiversity: Are Europe's hairdressers the secret weapon in tackling climate change?

Scientists are calling on an unexpected warrior in the fight against climate change – the humble hairdresser.
Experts say the UK's hair stylists are emerging as 'powerful, under–recognised influencers' in tackling the climate crisis.
New research shows that hairdressers are seen as confidantes or even counsellors, and are uniquely placed to hold influential conversations about global warming.
Scientists said salons are hubs of trust, community and conversation where climate action 'can take root and spread'.
The researchers, led by a team from the University of Bath, conducted in–depth interviews with 30 salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions with clients.
Dr Sam Hampton, from Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, said: 'Hairdressers build trust over months and years.
'That kind of relationship is gold when it comes to discussing climate change.
'We found salons to be unique spaces where clients feel safe, relaxed, and open to new ideas.'
Experts say the UK's hair cutters are emerging as 'powerful, under–recognised influencers' in tackling the climate crisis. Pictured: A hairdressing scene from the film Steel Magnolias
For their study, the team also ran a nationwide intervention in 25 salons using 'Mirror Talkers' – eco–tips placed on salon mirrors to prompt sustainable haircare interventions.
Nearly all participating salons reported chats with clients about environmental topics, the study, published in the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, revealed.
These often started with talking about haircare, but expanded to plastic use, food choices, energy use, transport and diet.
Almost three–quarters of clients reported that they were likely to change their haircare routine following conversations that took place in the chair.
Some reported switching to eco–friendly products, turning down their hot water or changing habits at home.
Coining the term 'everyday influencers', the researchers argue that public–facing professionals like hairdressers should be seen as frontline agents of climate engagement.
Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton, who also worked on the study, said: 'Most of us think a "green" product is one with recyclable packaging, but the carbon footprint of shampoo is mostly in the hot water used.
'Simple messages such as "most of us use too much shampoo and shampoo too often" can prompt conversations about how shampooing less and at lower temperatures saves time, money, energy, water and is better for your skin and hair condition.'
Almost three–quarters of clients reported that they were likely to change their haircare routine following conversations that took place in the chair. Pictured: Elle Woods in the film Legally Blonde waiting for her highlights to process
The researchers said hairdressers have an 'untapped ability' to weave climate change into everyday conversations.
'We're used to thinking of people in the public eye, such as celebrities, as influencers,' Dr Briony Latter, from Cardiff University, said.
'But what about the people you actually talk to on a regular basis who know you and who you trust with your appearance and sometimes more personal aspects of your life?'
With over 61,000 hair and beauty businesses in the UK, the team argued that it's time to 'invest in these unsung influencers' to boost climate engagement among the public.
'Hairdressers don't need to become climate change experts, or force clients to take climate action,' Dr Latter added.
'But they do need to realise the influence that they do have.
'Climate action doesn't just happen in governments, it happens in everyday places like your local salon.'
The scientists said future research could investigate the potential role of barbers and barbershops as spaces for climate conversations.
Across the entire UK, February was 23 per cent wetter than average - which experts have attributed to climate change
Recent figures released by the Met Office revealed last month really was one of the dullest and wettest Februarys Britain has ever had - and experts said global warming is partly to blame.
Across the entire UK, February was 23 per cent wetter than average, although the pictured varied regionally.
In England, there was 70 per cent more rain than usual – with Worcestershire experiencing its wettest February ever recorded.
According to the Met Office, climate change played a key role in the miserable weather.
'A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, approximately 7 per cent more for every degree Celsius of warming,' it explained.
'This means that when it does rain, downpours can be heavier and more intense.
'This characteristic is already being observed in the UK and globally, with rainfall totals on the wettest days increasing over recent decades.'

In a world of rising global temperatures, scientists are calling on an unexpected warrior in the fight against climate change - the humble hairdresser.

The solution to Britain's climate crisis? HAIRDRESSERS! Scientists claim hair salons are 'hubs of trust' where people feel comfortable discussing global warming

How Europe's hair stylists are cutting carbon & boosting climate action
New research unveils surprising discoveries about hair salons, suggesting that they could play a central role in encouraging public engagement. It has been found that the hair salon may be an unlikely weapon in fueling climate action. The findings from the University of Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation in collaboration with other British universities, elucidate that these 'hubs of trust' can be used to foster conversations around climate change.
How hairdressers are going green: The secret weapon for climate fighters
The research team conducted in-depth interviews with 30 UK salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions. The intriguing study, published in the journal Humanities Social Sciences Communications found that almost 73 percent of salon clients said they were likely to change their haircare routine after conversations prompted by 'Mirror Talkers.'
In line with the researchers' observation, hairdressers have an untapped talent for weaving climate change into daily conversations. Consequently, they are now urging policymakers to implement tools like Mirror Talkers nationally, and recognize that salons are valuable spaces for climate engagement.
In this connection, Matilda Collins, a senior director and stylist at Paul Edmonds London in the UK, stated in an interview with Euro news that the salon is becoming aware of its own environmental footprint and is adopting energy-sufficient measures to reduce the need for constant water heating.
The study's conclusion underscores the relationship and trust that a stylist builds with clients, which can lead to potential positive changes in behaviour, such as choosing sustainable brands.

New research unveils surprising discoveries about hair salons, suggesting that they could play a central role in encouraging public engagement. It has been found that the hair salon may be an...

How Europe's hair stylists are cutting carbon & boosting climate action

04 March 2026
Capitalising on greater climate change, nature and sustainability education in the national curriculum will need a detailed programme of support to make the changes a reality, according to a new report published today (Wednesday, 4 March).
The report, produced following discussions with more than 40 professional bodies and teaching organisations, sets out ten priority areas for improving climate education following the government's Curriculum and Assessment Review.
The experts argue that while the curriculum review is a welcome step, real change will require coordinated support across the whole education system. It also urges Ofsted to incorporate schools' sustainability actions and climate change, nature and sustainability education into their inspection framework.
Professor Andrew Charlton-Perez, climate scientist at the University of Reading and chair of the National Climate Education Action Plan, said: "Climate change touches every part of our lives, so it makes sense that it should touch every part of the education young people receive. The reforms to the Science, Geography and Design and Technology curriculum are really welcome, but what our workshop highlighted is the distance still left to travel to ensure that the education system can deliver on these reforms. We highlighted ten priority areas we think need attention to make a real difference.' The ten priority areas are:
1. Quality-controlling classroom resources — making sure materials from major publishers are accurate, up to date and adaptable for local use
2. Reforming exam specifications — ensuring climate and nature are examined across multiple subjects, with specifications that can be updated as the science develops
3. Expanding enrichment opportunities — ensuring all students have equal access to climate-related activities outside the classroom
4. Supporting teachers — better training and resources across all subjects, including guidance on handling controversial issues in the classroom
5. Defining essential content — making the basics of climate change causes, consequences and solutions compulsory for every student
6. Keeping the focus on solutions — more emphasis on renewable energy, nature restoration and green careers in lessons, training and exams
7. Improving coherence and sequencing — clearer links between subjects and year groups to avoid repetition and build on prior learning
8. Embedding green skills — weaving data, digital and critical thinking skills into climate and nature teaching across all subjects
9. Strengthening the wider community — closer working between publishers, subject experts, industry and young people
10. Applying a climate lens to every subject — bringing climate and nature into subjects beyond the obvious ones, and ensuring it is covered in teacher training from the start
The report ends by setting out a vision for what successful reform of the education system would look like by 2031. Contributors include the Royal Meteorological Society, the University of Reading, University College London, the National Association for Environmental Education, Global Action Plan, the Council for Subject Associations, the Royal Geographical Society and Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
Read: Delivering High Quality Climate Change, Nature and Sustainability Education for All – Beyond the Curriculum and Assessment Review.
Contact the University of Reading Press Office on 0118 378 5757 or pressoffice@reading.ac.uk.

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Experts unveil ten-point plan to deliver climate education

As climate change — driven primarily by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas — accelerates, so will the risks to the agency's infrastructure and operations, according to a 2025 climate-related financial risk management report Canada's National Observer obtained through an access to information request. It noted that climate change is the largest health threat facing people living in Canada.
The Public Health Agency of Canada has a broad mandate: it conducts public health research, monitors public health risks and works with other departments and governments to respond to emergencies like wildfires, COVID-19 outbreaks, the toxic drug crisis, contaminated water and chemical and nuclear incidents.
The federal agency tasked with protecting public health is grappling with climate risks that could impact its ability to quickly respond to concurrent emergencies such as wildfires and disease.
It noted 'weather events can impact infrastructure and access to NESS warehouses which could jeopardize NESS assets and response time.'
The agency-wide climate change risk assessment considers the risks of climate change to custodial assets, services and operations to see how exposed the agency is to climate hazards.
Some of the agency's work is preparatory: it manages National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) Warehouses that are stocked with supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics, ventilators, beds, blankets, personal protective equipment and other medical supplies and mini-clinics that can be deployed to respond to emergencies. Provinces and territories can request assistance and supplies during all manner of emergencies, including wildfire evacuations or power outages.
The agency has some plans in place to prepare for the possible disruptions to accessing these supplies, including back up generators, multiple stockpile locations so they aren't relying on any single warehouse and, if there is an anticipated climate or natural event, the agency may re-position supplies at a different location to help respond more rapidly, a spokesperson for the agency said in a statement to Canada's National Observer.
The Public Health Agency of Canada does everything form important research to helping with wildfire evacuations and disease outbreaks. As global temperatures increase, so do the risks to its operations
As with all departments, the increasing impacts of climate change pose financial risks as infrastructure is subjected to wear and tear from extreme weather and freeze and thaw cycles.
PHAC has four custodial properties — three in Winnipeg and one in Guelph — that support diagnostic, research and public health emergency response efforts, including specialized laboratories that are available at all hours as emergency public health needs arise.
The main climate risks to these specialized facilities include heavy rain, flash floods, smoke from wildfires, more intense heat and drought but 'there are no imminent concerns,' the statement from PHAC said.
'In recent years, more efforts have been made to improve the climate sustainability of buildings,' according to the statement, which cites the JC Wilt Infectious Diseases Research Centre in Winnipeg, opened in 2014 and featuring some sustainable design elements, such as a green wall.
PHAC recently finalized its first internal agency-wide Climate Change and Public Health Plan, which outlines an approach to address the key public health impacts of climate change, the agency said, adding that a summary of the plan will be publicly available in spring 2026.
Preparing for 'concurrent, cascading and compounding emergency events' is increasingly important in the context of a changing climate, said Chris Buse, an assistant professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University.
For example, catastrophic wildfires are often paired with periods of extreme heat and drought – both of which present health risks, he said. Back in the 2021 wildfire season, Canadians were still in a state of emergency dealing with the global COVID-19 pandemic, so governments and agencies suddenly had to try and protect people from a contagious virus, wildfires, smoke and extreme heat, Buse explained.
The agency also recently completed a separate climate change risk assessment that considers the risks of climate change to custodial assets, services and operations to see how exposed the agency is to climate hazards, the statement said. It found the agency has taken important steps to build climate-resilient infrastructure and operations but emphasized the increasing risks of climate change require 'sustained attention' across sectors.
Other federal bodies are facing similar struggles as global temperatures rise. In its own climate risk report, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned that concurrent outbreaks of foreign animal diseases and spreading of pathogens exacerbated by climate-related events is putting serious pressure on its critical operations. Flooding, permafrost melt and coastal erosion are increasingly threatening the Department of National Defence's northern infrastructure and various contaminated sites across the country.
The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act requires departments to submit these annual reports on how they are assessing and managing financial risks and opportunities related to climate change. The finance minister then produces an annual report using the information submitted by all the departments.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has a broad mandate from emergency response to research, and increasingly climate change is threatening its operations.

Public health emergency responses must reckon with climate change

Press Release – Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Chair Sophie Siers says students have a strong voice when it comes to climate action.
Hawke's Bay Regional Council is calling on Hawke's Bay school students to get involved in the 2026 Climate Change Challenge, a student-led initiative focused on practical climate action in schools.
Now in its third year, the challenge is open to all Hawke's Bay schools. Students are invited to design and deliver projects in one of four focus areas: sustainable transport, biodiversity in schools, water in our environment, and climate change awareness.
Across the four focus areas, students are encouraged to think outside the box – explore low carbon ways to get to school, create spaces that support biodiversity, find smarter ways to use and protect water, and consider how climate change affects their school and community.
Chair Sophie Siers says students have a strong voice when it comes to climate action.
'Young people bring energy and fresh thinking to climate solutions. The Climate Change Challenge puts students in the driver's seat. It's their ideas, their projects, and their chance to lead change in their own schools. Last year was a real success, and this year I'd love to see even more schools get involved. If any students have got an idea environmental idea, give the challenge a go and see what you can achieve for your school.'
Schools will have two school terms to develop and deliver their projects. All participating schools will present their work to a panel of judges, with the top three schools sharing a $2,000 prize pool to help grow their initiatives.
Applications for schools close Thursday 26 March.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council is calling on Hawke's Bay school students to get involved in the 2026 Climate Change Challenge, a student-led initiative focused on practical climate action in schools. Students are invited to design and deliver projects in one of four focus areas: sustainable transport, biodiversity in schools, water in our environment, and climate change awareness. Across the four focus areas, students are encouraged to think outside the box – explore low carbon ways to get to school, create spaces that support biodiversity, find smarter ways to use and protect water, and consider how climate change affects their school and community.

Hawke's Bay Students Challenged To Make Change

SJSU joins Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative
San José State University is joining a cross-sector network of public agencies, academia, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and business and community leaders to advance regional solutions to climate change, committing to participate in the Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative. The Collaborative's goal is to advance regional solutions to climate change through resource and expertise sharing, joint-funding opportunities and partnership development.
'As the university representative to the Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative, I am honored to help advance San José State University's commitment to regional climate action,' says Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Studies Sophie Kelmenson. 'This initiative creates meaningful opportunities to align our research, teaching and community partnerships in support of countywide efforts to develop strategies that reduce emissions, strengthen resilience and advance long-term sustainability across the region. I look forward to working alongside partners across the county to develop solutions that are collaborative, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of our diverse communities.'
As part of the agreement, San José State will help the collaborative work towards its vision through the following goals:
Goal 1: Sustain a diverse impact network of staff from Santa Clara County public agencies and organizations to advance regional climate projects, programs and policies.
Goal 2: Develop and formalize partnerships to coordinate and fund programs and projects that enhance the county's ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
Goal 3: Empower communities through inclusive decision-making processes that provide culturally responsive engagement and capacity building to support the integration of equity and climate justice in the collaborative.
Goal 4: Prioritize natural and nature-based climate solutions to promote regional resilience.
By organizing at the countywide scale, San José State and the Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative will amplify solutions and enable transformative change across individuals, communities, institutions, and the region as a whole.
For more information on the Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative, visit climatecollaborativescc.org .

SJSU joins Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative San José

San José State University Commits to Participation in Santa Clara County Climate Collaborative

If I had to pick one paper to represent why the Class is so important, about why so much which passes for science is unworthy, it might be the peer-reviewed creation of Derek Lemoine which he called 'Climate change has already made the United States poorer' and which, inexplicably, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science published.
I say 'inexplicably' because PNAS used to be a journal of science, and a paper which began with the words 'Climate change is already here' would have been summarily rejected, not so much for its bad science, but so the author, and editor, wouldn't embarrass themselves. I'll save the punchline until the bottom.
There has not been even one day since earth formed which the climate has not changed. The climate is in constant flux. Even worse for the Lemoines of professional science, there is no power on earth, or off earth, that can stop 'climate change'.
Ignore all that and let's see what Lemoine got up to. From the Abstract (which he later echoed in the paper opening):
The climate is already changing. The present study shows that these changes have already affected the U.S. economy. It develops a formal framework that accounts for how climate change has affected each county's economy by altering current and past weather, both locally and elsewhere around the country. The results show that climate change is already reducing annual U.S. income by 0.32% [95% CI: -0.17 to 0.82%] by altering counties' current, local temperatures, with losses concentrated in the Great Plains and Midwest.
That 'formal framework' means Lemoine has a model (before I read it, I guessed what kind). The results mean that according to a parameter in his model, 'climate change' might have had a negative reduction in annual US income. That's what the '-0.17%' means: a negative reduction.
Which means an increase.
Which is hilarious.
How would you go about proving that 'climate change' caused—the very strictest word in all science—the per capita income in the USA (or anywhere) to change?
Answer: you could not. The idea is absurd. Best you could ever hope for is some loose imprecise vague suspicious watery correlation. Which no one would be obligated to believe.
Of course, one could point to individual events, say a hard freeze over a Florida orange crop, and calculate a rough loss (which event should be rarer under global warming). Or the opposite, show how slightly warmer, sunnier, and a far more pleasant spring boosted production. You'd still be left with correlation and some fairly wide plus-or-minuses, because weather is only one condition of price, which is only one input to income. But such a move would more or less defensible.
Try the same for a scarcely noticeable changes in temperature over a continent and those changes' interaction with the entire economy, and that economy's interaction with average income, and, well, you have fantasy.
Highly numerate fantasy. Here part of Lemoine's model for 'the percentage change in income per capita due to climate change'.
The y are incomes, w are 'weather' variables, and W is 'an index of weather variable n around the country'. The Greek letters are parameters. He says 'The right-hand side of Eq. 1 captures how climate change affects income via its direct effect on contemporary weather, via ex post adaptation to the history of weather shocks, and via ex ante adaptation based on beliefs about coming weather'.
That lower-case lambda 'capture[s] the effect on income per capita of changes in contemporary weather, which may matter for income both directly and by affecting the contemporary local capital stock.' And so on for the other Greeks.
Don't worry if you can't understand the math. The idea is that (log of) income can be tied to weather in his equation. The model is purely correlational, and is silly. To say the entire (average) income of a country can be definitively tied to weather in just this linear way is a mighty boast, which cannot be defended.
Here's some of the details, given for those who know how to read such things. We really only need that second sentence.
Basically it's one large regression model using counterfactual guesses of what the weather would have been had man not been around: that's what the absence of human influences in the second sentence means.
Of course, Lemoine forgets that if man was not around, and thus there were no human influences on climate, there would be no economy.
The economy, and thus incomes, are deeply intertwined with the products of the economy that Lemoine thinks change the weather. People drive to work, they use electricity to buy and sell. Etc. Meaning even if Lemoine's counterfactual guesses about the weather were perfectly correct, which they most certainly are not, and that even if his model were perfectly accurate and causal, which suggestion is laughable, his project is worthless. He'd have some loose correlations with counterfactual changes in weather, in which there would be no economy because no human influence, and changes in income, which he began by assuming would be affected by changes in weather. And affected (it seems) by nothing else.
How he missed this we can only guess. Perhaps it was the usual desire to jump on the Funding Bandwagon, and look cool in front of his colleagues. Maybe he just wanted to show off his math skills. It takes some doing to fit equations like the above. It really does take a high degree of learning to make his intricate plots.
But it's all in service of a bizarre fantasy. Though passed off as, and taken as, Science by the mighty powers above us.
And that's why those who can, ought to be taking the Class.
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Researcher Imagines Weather With No Human Influence: Concludes Climate Change Hurts Incomes

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, has warned that Africa's rapidly expanding cities are on the brink of a climate-driven public health emergency.
Ogunsola delivered the maiden Distinguished Lecture titled 'Climate Change, Cities and Infections' at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila-Orangun, Osun State. She said the convergence of climate change, rapid urbanisation and infectious diseases is creating a 'perfect storm' that threatens the continent's urban future.
The microbiologist and public health expert stressed that climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern but an escalating health crisis. 'Climate change does not create most pathogens,' she said, 'but it changes the environmental conditions that determine transmission, exposure and vulnerability.'
Ogunsola noted that although Africa contributes the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, it bears a disproportionate burden of climate-related disease risks due to fragile health systems, widespread poverty and heavy reliance on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as agriculture.
Citing global health projections, she warned that climate change could result in an additional 250,000 deaths annually between 2030 and 2050 from malaria, diarrhoea, malnutrition and heat stress alone.
Urban areas, she said, are particularly vulnerable as African cities expand at unprecedented rates, often without adequate infrastructure. Informal settlements lacking proper drainage, sanitation and waste management systems are multiplying, creating ideal conditions for infectious disease outbreaks.
According to her, many African cities are experiencing intensified urban heat island effects, where concrete structures, paved surfaces and vehicle emissions trap heat, pushing temperatures significantly higher than surrounding rural areas.
She explained that rising temperatures, combined with erratic rainfall, flooding and drought, are reshaping disease patterns. Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya are spreading into new urban zones as warmer and wetter conditions extend breeding seasons.
Flooding contaminates water sources and damages sanitation systems, triggering cholera and other diarrhoeal outbreaks.
Drought, she added, concentrates pathogens in shrinking water supplies, increasing infection risks.
'Cities are both contributors to and victims of climate change,' she said. 'The density that drives economic productivity also heightens exposure to climate hazards and infectious disease transmission.'
Ogunsola also highlighted the growing intersection between climate-related disasters and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Extreme weather events that displace populations and damage health facilities often lead to spikes in infections and increased antibiotic use, accelerating the emergence of drug-resistant strains.
More than half of Africa's public health emergencies between 2001 and 2021 were climate-related, she noted, many involving diseases already complicated by rising resistance. 'AMR reduces treatment options and increases mortality, complicating responses to climate-linked disease outbreaks,' she warned.
While cities offer proximity to healthcare and economic opportunities, she stressed that deep social inequalities limit access to essential services for millions living in informal settlements. Air pollution driven by fossil fuels, diesel generators and unregulated transport systems is worsening respiratory illnesses, while extreme heat disproportionately affects the elderly, children and other vulnerable groups.
'If urban challenges are not addressed at their source,' she cautioned, 'their consequences will reverberate far beyond city boundaries, affecting national stability, regional health security and global sustainability.'
Ogunsola called for integrated climate and health policies anchored in a 'One Health' approach, strengthened disease surveillance systems, investment in climate-resilient infrastructure and empowerment of local governments and communities.
She urged African leaders to prioritise green urban planning, including improved drainage systems, expanded green spaces, resilient housing and cleaner public transport to reduce emissions and build healthier cities.
'Cities are climate frontlines,' she concluded, 'but they are also hubs of innovation. The choices we make now will determine whether Africa's urban future becomes a story of resilience or catastrophe.'
Chairman of the occasion and Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, called for holistic measures to safeguard public health by addressing climate change in Nigeria.
Represented by the Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Prof. Simeon Bamire, Oloyede said climate change poses grave risks not only to the environment but also to human health, stressing that human and environmental wellbeing are inseparable. He described the lecture as timely and urged stakeholders to accelerate implementation of its recommendations.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ila Orangun, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, also commended the lecturer and chairman for their insights, describing the lecture as a wake-up call for urgent action.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, has warned that Africa's rapidly expanding cities are on the brink

Africa's cities face climate-driven health catastrophe'

Hairdressers across the UK are emerging as powerful, under-recognized influencers in tackling climate change, according to new research from academics at the University of Bath's Center for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST),
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Hairdressers build trust over months and years. That kind of relationship is gold when it comes to discussing climate change. We found salons to be unique spaces where clients feel safe, relaxed, and open to new ideas.
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Hairdressers across the UK are emerging as powerful, under-recognized influencers in tackling climate change, according to new research from academics at the University of Bath's Center for Climate…

Hairdressers could be a secret weapon in tackling climate change, new research finds

What are the most important changes the Paris Agreement has brought about? How should the COP process evolve? And why does geoengineering need to be approached with caution?
The fourth part of the Future of Climate Diplomacy mini-series features a fascinating conversation between Chatham House's Chris Aylett (standing in for Anna and Bhargabi) and Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation and previously France's Climate Change Ambassador and Special Representative for COP21.
About The Climate Briefing
The Climate Briefing explores key themes in the UN climate negotiations and international climate politics. The podcast is hosted by Bhargabi Bharadwaj and Anna Aberg from Chatham House and features interviewees from governments, international organizations, academia and civil society organizations from across the world.
You can also listen to The Climate Briefing on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Chris Aylett speaks with Laurence Tubiana about the current state of climate diplomacy and what needs to happen next.

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University of Bath Press Release
3 March 2026 Salons can be influential in prompting climate conversations - research
Hairdressers across the UK are emerging as powerful, under-recognised influencers in tackling climate change, according to new research from academics at the University of Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), and the Universities of Cardiff, Oxford and Southampton.
The study, published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications , reveals that hair salons are hubs of trust, community and conversation where climate action can take root and spread.
The research shows that hairdressers can be influential in everyday conversations with clients about climate and sustainability and are successfully prompting people to rethink their sustainability habits – ranging from their use of water and energy to their choice of bank or diet.
Dr Sam Hampton from CAST said: "Hairdressers build trust over months and years. That kind of relationship is gold when it comes to discussing climate change. We found salons to be unique spaces where clients feel safe, relaxed, and open to new ideas."
The research team conducted in-depth interviews with 30 salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions with clients and ran a nationwide intervention in 25 sustainable salons using 'Mirror Talkers' - eco-tips placed on salon mirrors to prompt sustainable haircare conversations.
Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton, said: "Most of us think a 'green' product is one with recyclable packaging, but the carbon footprint of shampoo is mostly in the hot water used, so simple messages such as 'most of us use too much shampoo and shampoo too often' can prompt conversations about how shampooing less and at lower temperatures saves time, money, energy, water and is better for your skin and hair condition." Key Findings
Trust creates impact: Hairdressers build long-term, often decades-long relationships with clients. Many are seen as confidantes or even counsellors. This trust creates a space where advice is both welcomed and acted upon.
Conversations are already happening: Nearly all participating salons reported chats with clients about environmental topics - often starting with haircare, but expanding to plastic use, food choices, energy use and transport, diet, and more.
Measurable Impact: Almost 73% of salon clients said they were likely to change their haircare routine after conversations prompted by the Mirror Talkers. Some reported switching to eco-friendly products, turning down their hot water, or changing habits at home.
Coining the term 'everyday influencers', the researchers argue that public-facing professionals like hairdressers should be seen as frontline agents of climate engagement.
Harriet Barber from B Hairdressing in Bath said: "We believe beauty should never cost the earth - our salon is proudly vegan, eco-friendly, and stocked with ethical products. Clients come to us for more than great hair; they connect with our values and the conversations we have around sustainability, green living, and even growing your own veg - it's more than a salon, it's a like-minded community."
Dr Briony Latter, a CAST member based at Cardiff University, said: "We're used to thinking of people in the public eye, such as celebrities, as influencers. But what about the people you actually talk to on a regular basis who know you and who you trust with your appearance and sometimes more personal aspects of your life? Hairdressers have an untapped ability to weave climate change into everyday conversations and actions." Salons valuable for climate engagement
With over 61,000 hair and beauty businesses in the UK contributing £5.1 billion to the economy, the research offers a blueprint for policymakers. It recommends:
Integrating sustainability training into hairdressing education and apprenticeships
Rolling out conversational tools like Mirror Talkers nationally
Recognising salons as valuable spaces for public climate engagement, particularly among women and local communities
Dr Sam Hampton said: "If we're serious about building a public movement for climate action, then it's time to invest in these unsung influencers because real change starts in everyday conversations, not just in Westminster."
The research paper Public engagement and climate change: exploring the role of hairdressers as everyday influencers is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (DOI: 10.1057/s41599-026-06781-4)
The research is summarised in the report Hairdressers as 'everyday influencers' on climate change and sustainability , available on the CAST website.
The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) is a global hub for understanding the systemic and society-wide transformations that are required to address climate change. It is based across five UK institutions, including the University of Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change, the University of Manchester, the University of East Anglia and Cardiff University, as well as the charity Climate Outreach.

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The third edition of the Climate Reality Check, a report on the depiction of climate change in feature filmmaking, was released this afternoon.
The report is compiled by Good Energy, a consultancy firm that works with TV and film creators telling stories about the climate crisis. The Climate Reality Check evaluates films and television series against the following criteria: whether climate change appears in the narrative media, and whether a character knows it.
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The report states that sixteen Oscar-nominated scripted feature films met the eligibility criteria this year. To be eligible, a film must be set in the present, recent past, or future, on Earth. And of those sixteen, five passed the check. Those films were Arco, Bugonia, Jurassic World Rebirth, The Lost Bus, and Sirāt.
Five titles equals a 31% pass rate, up from 10% in 2025.
'Climate isn't a genre. These five films are strikingly different from one another, spanning genres, tones, and scales, from intimate animation to blockbuster franchise spectacle. Climate reality appears in satire and survival drama, in independent film and major studio releases alike,' the report read. 'Together, they show climate can unfold across countless cinematic forms, just as it unfolds across countless lived experiences.'
The report continued: 'In dark times, filmmaking is an act of courage. In a moment that calls for extraordinary bravery, creativity, and connection, these five films turn the lens toward the question before us: What does it mean to be human in the age of climate change?'
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The Iran War Is Also a Climate War
Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we're seeing in Iran—it's structurally embedded in modern warfare.
Men watch from a hillside as a plume of smoke rises after an explosion on March 2, 2026, in Tehran, Iran.
(Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
This story is part of Covering Climate Now
, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by Columbia Journalism Review
and The Nation
strengthening coverage of the climate story.
War makes climate change worse in many ways, and vice versa. The human costs of the US-Israel attack on Iran—the hundreds of people who have died, including a reported 175 young girls and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyibeh primary school—are a tragedy. The mounting economic risks—disrupted supply chains, rising energy prices, shaken stock markets—are ominous. The danger that this war of choice launched by two nuclear-armed states will escalate further, drawing in powers across the region and beyond, is alarming. And threaded through each of these concerns is the fact that modern warfare is inextricably linked with climate change.
The linkages flow in both directions. Wars unleash gargantuan amounts of planet-warming emissions: Russia's war in Ukraine, for example, has generated emissions equal to the annual emissions of France. Those extra emissions drive deadlier heat, drought, storms, and other impacts that wreck livelihoods, destabilize economies, and spur migration, making armed conflict more likely. The British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 warned in January that climate disruption and biodiversity loss, if left unchecked, will cause 'crop failures, intensified natural disasters, and infectious disease outbreaks…exacerbating existing conflicts, starting new ones, and threatening global security and prosperity.'
The outbreak of any war is bad news for the climate, just as the election of politicians hostile to climate action is. The climate implications of this new war are not the center of attention at the moment, but they are essential context for understanding what's at stake. At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on Earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice.
Yet war has the perverse effect of pushing the climate story down the news agenda. The news media is event-driven, prioritizing breaking developments and immediate threats. And wars generate powerful images and dramatic narratives, which stoke the public appetite for news (at least in a war's initial stages). Climate change, by contrast, typically unfolds over longer timescales. Except during acute disasters such as hurricanes or wildfires, the climate story tends to lack the urgency that garners headlines and boosts audience interest.
Is this a war for oil? The fact that Iran possesses the third-largest oil reserves on Earth inevitably raises the question, as does the long history of US-Iranian conflict over those reserves, including the CIA's overthrowing a democratically elected leader who sought to nationalize them. When the US attacked Venezuela in January, President Donald Trump openly said that he wanted to gain control of that country's vast oil reserves. Now more reporting is needed to establish just how much of a factor oil was in the decision to attack Iran.
What's beyond dispute is that this war could not be fought without oil. The aircraft carriers, jet planes, and the myriad support systems they require gobble immense quantities of fossil fuels. Which helps explain why the US Department of Defense is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases globally, as Neta Crawford, a professor at Oxford University, documents in her book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. Taken together, the world's militaries have a bigger annual carbon footprint than all but three of the world's countries.
Given this war's immense implications—for the climate emergency and so much else—the question of why it was launched in the first place demands scrutiny, especially in view of the wild shifts in the Trump administration's stated rationales. Within 24 hours of the first strikes, The Washington Post cited four administration sources as saying that 'US intelligence assessments saw no immediate threat' from Iran. Nevertheless, Trump opted to attack, the Post reported, 'after a weeks-long lobbying effort' by Israel, which views Iran as a bitter enemy, and Saudi Arabia, Iran's long-standing regional rival and fellow petro-state.
As with most wars, so with climate change: The poor and the innocent suffer most. Climate change is not peripheral but structurally embedded in modern warfare. Journalists cannot fully and fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than core fact.

Climate change is not a peripheral part of what we're seeing in Iran—it's structurally embedded in modern warfare.

The Iran War Is Also a Climate War

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Imagine opening a book where every page records a moment from Earth's distant past.
Deep
under the ocean floor, that book actually exists. Instead of paper, it is made of layers of sediment that have been quietly settling on the seabed for millions of years.
Tiny particles of sand, clay, minerals, and the remains of microscopic marine life slowly sink through the water and settle on the ocean floor. Over time, these layers stack one on top of another. Each one captures details about the environment at the moment it formed.
Scientists study this record by collecting long cylindrical samples called sediment cores. When researchers examine these cores, they see clear layers that reveal changes in the ocean and atmosphere over enormous spans of time.
The research
Deep Sea Sediment Core Model
explains how these cores preserve evidence of past temperatures, ocean circulation, and ice volume. Tiny fossils,
chemical signals
, and mineral patterns inside the layers allow scientists to reconstruct climate conditions from the distant past. Because deep ocean sediments build up slowly and steadily, they often provide one of the most continuous and reliable records of Earth's climate.
These records help researchers understand how natural climate changes unfolded long before modern instruments existed.
What Scientists Found When They Studied 66 Million Years of Sediments
To explore Earth's climate history in greater detail, scientists gathered sediment core data from oceans across the world. Their goal was to piece together a global picture of climate change after the end of the Cretaceous period about 66 million years ago.
Their work appears in the research A Cenozoic Record of Global Deep Ocean Temperature and Ice Volume. By combining data from multiple ocean drilling sites, the researchers reconstructed long-term patterns of warming and cooling that shaped Earth's climate through the Cenozoic era.
The results show that the planet experienced dramatic shifts. One of the most striking events was the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum. During this period, global temperatures rose rapidly, and oceans warmed significantly.
After that extreme warming, Earth entered a long phase of cooling that lasted millions of years. Ice sheets began expanding in polar regions, and ocean circulation gradually changed. These shifts influenced ecosystems, sea levels, and atmospheric conditions around the world.
This research highlights how Earth's climate system has always been dynamic, responding to changes in carbon levels, ocean currents, and geological activity.
Why the
Southern Ocean Holds Important Climate
Clues
Some of the most valuable sediment records come from the Southern Ocean, the vast stretch of water surrounding Antarctica. This region plays a major role in regulating Earth's climate because it absorbs large amounts of heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Scientists studying sediment cores from this region uncovered detailed records of climate patterns during the Holocene epoch, the period covering roughly the last 11,700 years.
Their findings appear in the research
Holocene Marine Proxy Records
from the Southern Ocean. These sediments contain clues about changes in sea surface temperatures and shifts in ocean circulation.
The layers also reveal signs linked to the history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, one of the most powerful climate systems affecting weather around the globe. Changes in this system can influence rainfall, storms, and temperature patterns across continents.
Because the
Southern Ocean
connects major ocean basins, the climate signals stored in its sediments help scientists understand how different parts of the planet's climate system interact.
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The Southern Ocean offers crucial clues about past weather patterns. Chemical signals within sediments also paint a picture of ancient ocean conditions.
How Chemical Signals in Sediments Reveal Ancient Ocean Conditions
Sediment layers do not only contain visible grains or fossils. They also hold chemical elements that act as tiny clues about past environmental conditions.
Scientists examine these chemical signals to understand how oceans behaved in different geological periods. One large effort to organize this information appears in the research project
Deep Time Marine
Sedimentary Element Database.
The study Deep Time Marine Sedimentary Element Database gathers geochemical data from marine sediments covering vast stretches of Earth's history. The elements and isotopes preserved in these sediments act like fingerprints of past environments.
Their chemical patterns can reveal ocean oxygen levels, nutrient cycles, and water temperatures that existed when the sediments were deposited.
By comparing these chemical records across many locations and time periods, researchers can identify moments when Earth's climate changed gradually or shifted suddenly.
These insights help scientists understand how ocean chemistry and climate evolved together over millions of years.
What Sediment Cores Tell Us About Ancient Ocean Temperatures
Ocean temperatures are a critical part of Earth's climate system because oceans store enormous amounts of heat. Sediment records allow scientists to trace how those temperatures changed long before modern measurements were possible.
The study Global Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction Over the Past 4.5 Million Years analyzed deep-sea sediment cores to estimate historical ocean temperatures. The findings show that Earth's oceans have experienced gradual cooling over millions of years, interrupted by shorter periods of warming.
These shifts were linked to interactions between greenhouse gases, ocean circulation, and the growth or retreat of ice sheets.
Understanding these patterns is important because it provides a baseline for comparing past natural climate changes with modern warming trends.
How Climate Shapes Sediments on the Ocean Floor
Climate does not just influence the atmosphere and oceans. It also shapes the sediments lying across the seabed.
The research Climate Controls on Deep Sea Sand Deposition shows that powerful underwater flows called turbidity currents have been moving sand across the ocean floor for at least 50 million years. These currents often occur when environmental conditions change, such as shifts in sea level or strong storms.
When these flows happen, they transport large amounts of sediment across deep ocean basins and deposit it in new layers. Over time, these deposits become part of the geological record preserved on the seabed.
By studying these sediment structures, scientists can identify moments when climate conditions influenced ocean activity.
Deep beneath the ocean surface, the seafloor continues to collect these layers quietly. Together they form an extraordinary archive of Earth's climate story, preserving evidence of environmental changes that stretch back tens of millions of years.

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Scientists are calling on an unexpected warrior in the fight against climate change – the humble hairdresser.
Experts say the UK's hair stylists are emerging as 'powerful, under–recognised influencers' in tackling the climate crisis.
New research shows that hairdressers are seen as confidantes or even counsellors, and are uniquely placed to hold influential conversations about global warming.
Scientists said salons are hubs of trust, community and conversation where climate action 'can take root and spread'.
The researchers, led by a team from the University of Bath, conducted in–depth interviews with 30 salon owners and directors about their climate and sustainability interactions with clients.
Dr Sam Hampton, from Bath's Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, said: 'Hairdressers build trust over months and years.
'That kind of relationship is gold when it comes to discussing climate change.
'We found salons to be unique spaces where clients feel safe, relaxed, and open to new ideas.'
For their study, the team also ran a nationwide intervention in 25 salons using 'Mirror Talkers' – eco–tips placed on salon mirrors to prompt sustainable haircare interventions.
Nearly all participating salons reported chats with clients about environmental topics, the study, published in the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, revealed.
These often started with talking about haircare, but expanded to plastic use, food choices, energy use, transport and diet.
Almost three–quarters of clients reported that they were likely to change their haircare routine following conversations that took place in the chair.
Some reported switching to eco–friendly products, turning down their hot water or changing habits at home.
Coining the term 'everyday influencers', the researchers argue that public–facing professionals like hairdressers should be seen as frontline agents of climate engagement.
Denise Baden, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Southampton, who also worked on the study, said: 'Most of us think a "green" product is one with recyclable packaging, but the carbon footprint of shampoo is mostly in the hot water used.
'Simple messages such as "most of us use too much shampoo and shampoo too often" can prompt conversations about how shampooing less and at lower temperatures saves time, money, energy, water and is better for your skin and hair condition.'
The researchers said hairdressers have an 'untapped ability' to weave climate change into everyday conversations.
'We're used to thinking of people in the public eye, such as celebrities, as influencers,' Dr Briony Latter, from Cardiff University, said.
'But what about the people you actually talk to on a regular basis who know you and who you trust with your appearance and sometimes more personal aspects of your life?'
With over 61,000 hair and beauty businesses in the UK, the team argued that it's time to 'invest in these unsung influencers' to boost climate engagement among the public.
'Hairdressers don't need to become climate change experts, or force clients to take climate action,' Dr Latter added.
'But they do need to realise the influence that they do have.
'Climate action doesn't just happen in governments, it happens in everyday places like your local salon.'
The scientists said future research could investigate the potential role of barbers and barbershops as spaces for climate conversations.
Recent figures released by the Met Office revealed last month really was one of the dullest and wettest Februarys Britain has ever had - and experts said global warming is partly to blame.
Across the entire UK, February was 23 per cent wetter than average, although the pictured varied regionally.
In England, there was 70 per cent more rain than usual – with Worcestershire experiencing its wettest February ever recorded.
According to the Met Office, climate change played a key role in the miserable weather.
'A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, approximately 7 per cent more for every degree Celsius of warming,' it explained.
'This means that when it does rain, downpours can be heavier and more intense.
'This characteristic is already being observed in the UK and globally, with rainfall totals on the wettest days increasing over recent decades.'

The solution to Britain's climate crisis? Hairdressers, scientists say

MONTRÉAL, March 5, 2026 /CNW/ - Media representatives are advised that the Honourable Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature), on behalf of the Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of the Environment, Climate Change and Nature, will be announcing funding for conservation projects across Canada that help protect and recover species at risk. The announcement marks an important anniversary for Canada's longest-running species at risk program.
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For the third year, Good Energy has released its Climate Reality Check report on the season's Academy Award-nominated films to determine if climate change was represented in the work. And this year, a record number of films passed the test. Good Energy is a story consultancy that aims to increase climate change visibility in TV and film, and alongside Rice University professor Dr. Matthew Schneider-Mayerso, created the Climate Reality Check to measure the visibility of climate change onscreen. It was inspired by the popular Bechdel-Wallace Test, which evaluates the representation of women in TV and film, and asks two simple questions: if climate change exists, and if a character knows it. Researchers applied the test to the 50 films that were nominated for an award at the Oscars; 16 of that group met the requirements of being scripted, feature-length films that are set on Earth and set in modern day. Of those 16 eligible films, five passed the Climate Reality Check: Arco, Bugonia, Jurassic World Rebirth, The Lost Bus and Sirāt.
That's a 31 percent pass rate, with only 10 percent passing in 2025 and 23 percent in 2024. 'The five Academy Award-nominated films that reflect our climate reality are strikingly different from one another, but as different as these films are, they also share a common thread. These films reflect ordinary people — a bus driver, a beekeeper, friends at a rave — who dig deep and find the determination to meet the moment,' Anna Jane Joyner, founder and CEO of Good Energy, said in a statement. 'In periods of uncertainty and rupture, stories give shape to chaos and help us envision a way forward. At it's best, cinema reveals what's at stake and who we might choose to be. Good Energy celebrates these bold storytellers and a defining year for climate visibility at the Oscars.' Jurassic World Rebirth producer Patrick Crowley added that the Universal movie 'is science fiction — but the emphasis is on science. It's essential that the audience believes the story you're telling could really happen, and that means doing your research and making sure even the biggest ideas are grounded in authenticity. And if we're reflecting the world as it exists today, that authenticity has to include our relationship with the natural world and the impact we have on it. I hope we continue to see more stories that make heroes out of the people who dedicate their lives to protecting the planet.'

The Climate Reality Check once again looked for climate change visibility in this year's awards season films, with 'Arco,' 'The Lost Bus' and 'Sirāt' also satisfying the requirements.

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Hawke's Bay Regional Council is calling on Hawke's Bay school students to get involved in the 2026 Climate Change Challenge, a student-led initiative focused on practical climate action in schools.
Now in its third year, the challenge is open to all Hawke's Bay schools. Students are invited to design and deliver projects in one of four focus areas: sustainable transport, biodiversity in schools, water in our environment, and climate change awareness.
Across the four focus areas, students are encouraged to think outside the box – explore low carbon ways to get to school, create spaces that support biodiversity, find smarter ways to use and protect water, and consider how climate change affects their school and community.
Chair Sophie Siers says students have a strong voice when it comes to climate action.
"Young people bring energy and fresh thinking to climate solutions. The Climate Change Challenge puts students in the driver's seat. It's their ideas, their projects, and their chance to lead change in their own schools. Last year was a real success, and this year I'd love to see even more schools get involved. If any students have got an idea environmental idea, give the challenge a go and see what you can achieve for your school.'
Schools will have two school terms to develop and deliver their projects. All participating schools will present their work to a panel of judges, with the top three schools sharing a $2,000 prize pool to help grow their initiatives.
Applications for schools close Thursday 26 March.

Chair Sophie Siers says students have a strong voice when it comes to climate action.

In the wake of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in January 2025, the effect of climate change on the insurance industry was detailed in a report by the U.S. Treasury Department. In what it called the most comprehensive snapshot of the homeowners insurance market to date, the agency wrote in its press release that 'homeowners insurance is becoming more costly and harder to procure for millions of Americans as the costs of climate-related events pose growing challenges to insurers and their customers alike.' Researchers including those at the Harvard Business School echoed that conclusion: 'Climate change is causing turbulence in homeowner insurance markets, as a growing number of extreme weather events dramatically drive up costs.' In 2024, there were 27 confirmed weather and climate events in the U.S. each with losses exceeding $1 billion, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But insurance industry groups have resisted supporting climate regulations by questioning the link between higher premiums and climate change, according to a new report from InfluenceMap, a transparency advocacy nonprofit. The group concluded that 'industry groups questioned the climate risk implications for the insurance sector, asserted that insurers have proven they can sufficiently manage climate risks, and posited that natural catastrophe events are not frequent enough to require additional guidance or regulation.' EDIT The Global Federation of Insurance Associations questioned whether the frequency of natural disasters required a change in insurers' business models. 'These events occur reasonably rarely, so it would be a waste of resources to scale up permanently waiting for the next one to occur,' it said, according to InfluenceMap's report. When the International Association of Insurance Supervisors suggested that insurers could be required to consider the potential effects of climate change in their investments, as well as how those investment decisions could negatively affect climate change, the groups pushed back. None of the industry groups examined by InfluenceMap supported incorporating climate factors into their investment activities. Among them was the Institute of International Finance and Insurance Europe, whose members include Allianz, Swiss Re and Zurich Insurance Group. Insurance Europe found the proposal 'quite prescriptive' and the Global Federation of Insurance Associations questioned why climate-related risks should be considered systemic. 'It is unclear why [significant investment exposure to assets that are vulnerable to climate-related risks] is characterized as 'systemic risk.' … Moreover, it would seem appropriate for insurance supervisors to be equally cautious about concentrations in 'green' investments.' EDIT
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The legitimacy of our judicial system rests on judges deciding cases solely on the law and the evidence presented in open court. When outside influences threaten this foundation, it poses a direct risk to judicial impartiality.
That context makes the growing controversy involving the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) and the Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project worth closer scrutiny.
Earlier this year, a coalition of state Attorneys General raised concerns about portions of the climate science chapter in the latest edition of the FJC's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. Produced jointly with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the manual is intended to serve as a neutral reference for judges confronting complex scientific questions.
The Attorneys General, however, argued that the newest edition crossed that line, venturing beyond neutral explanation into disputed policy advocacy and, in doing so, undermining the Constitution's guarantee of an independent and impartial judiciary.
The concern is not that judges should be shielded from climate science. Rather, the Attorneys General say the chapter goes beyond established science into disputed territory at the center of ongoing litigation, even comparing climate change debates to the once-contested link between tobacco and cancer.
In their letter, the Attorneys General pointed to the backgrounds of the chapter's authors, Jessica Wentz and Radley Horton of Columbia University, and their ties to climate advocacy. Wentz is affiliated with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, which develops legal strategies for climate policy. She also works with the Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project.
The chapter's acknowledgments also thank Michael Burger for his insights and feedback, and it repeatedly cites his article on climate change attribution. Burger's name was on the complaints filed by Honolulu and Delaware in their climate litigation and serves as Of Counsel at Sher Edling, a firm that has brought many climate liability suits across the country.
That means a lawyer actively engaged in climate cases helped shape a chapter designed to inform judges about the science underlying those very claims.
A review of the FJC chapter alongside a 2020 Columbia Law School paper, which Wentz and Horton coauthored with Burger, on climate change attribution also reveals substantial similarities. Combining explanation with argument in a reference guide blurs the distinction between instruction and advocacy.
In February, the Federal Judicial Center director, Judge Robin Rosenberg, told West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey that the center had 'omitted the climate science chapter' from the manual.
While this is a positive step, the chapter remains available on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) website under the Federal Judicial Center's name.
Judges may reference this material without a disclaimer from the judiciary's research arm. The Wall Street Journal editorial board has recommended Congress review funding for materials that appear polemical, given that both FJC and NAS receive taxpayer support.
In light of these facts, the FJC decided that removing the chapter was the prudent course. But that decision raises a more fundamental question about how these entanglements found their way into a publication designed to safeguard judicial neutrality in the first place.
Congress has also raised concerns about the improper influence of climate advocates on judges. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether the Environmental Law Institute's Climate Judiciary Project has attempted to influence judges overseeing climate litigation.
In January, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) requested information from the Environmental Law Institute and the Federal Judicial Center regarding any coordination between the federally funded organizations and outside litigators.
In a letter to the Federal Judicial Center, the Committee noted that while both climate groups say they provide impartial information for judges, Republicans believe those materials 'appear to be designed to bias judges in climate-related cases.'
Congressional investigators are concerned that these programs are structured to favor plaintiffs in lawsuits against energy producers. The House Judiciary Committee notes that existing policy acknowledges risks in privately funded judicial education, such as influence through program content and contact between judges and litigants. However, current safeguards may still allow advocacy groups to shape judicial materials.
State and local governments in recent years have filed numerous climate lawsuits to hold energy producers liable for global emissions and for alleged impacts of climate change. In 2025, however, federal and state courts in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico all separately rejected climate claims—affirming that regulating global emissions is beyond the power of any single state court and is the jurisdiction of Congress.
The credibility of the justice system depends on truly independent courts. The FJC's stated removal of the climate chapter underscores the importance of protecting our courts from influences that blur the boundaries between education and activism. The FJC and National Academy of Sciences should fully remove this climate science chapter if they legitimately wish to uphold judicial independence.

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War makes climate change worse in many ways, and vice versa. The human costs of the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran—the hundreds of people who have died, including more than 100 girls and teachers killed at an elementary school—are surely a tragedy. The mounting economic risks—disrupted supply chains, spiking energy prices, shaken stock markets—are ominous. The danger that this war of choice launched by two nuclear-armed states will escalate further, drawing in powers across the region and beyond, is alarming. And threaded through each of these concerns is the fact that modern warfare is inextricably linked with climate change.
The linkages flow in both directions. Wars unleash gargantuan amounts of planet-warming emissions: Russia's war in Ukraine, for example, has generated emissions equal to the annual emissions of France. Those extra emissions drive deadlier heat, drought, storms, and other impacts that wreck livelihoods, destabilize economies, and spur migration, making armed conflict more likely. The British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 warned in January that climate disruption and biodiversity loss, if left unchecked, will cause 'crop failures, intensified natural disasters, and infectious disease outbreaks … exacerbating existing conflicts, starting new ones, and threatening global security and prosperity.'
The outbreak of any war is bad news for the climate, just as the election of politicians hostile to climate action is. The climate implications of this new war are not the center of attention at the moment, but they are essential context for understanding what's at stake. At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice.
Yet war has the perverse effect of pushing the climate story down the news agenda. The news media is event-driven, prioritizing breaking developments and immediate threats. And wars generate powerful images and dramatic narratives, which stoke the public appetite for news (at least in a war's initial stages). Climate change, by contrast, typically unfolds over longer timescales. Except during acute disasters, such as hurricanes or wildfires, the climate story tends to lack the urgency that garners headlines and boosts audience interest.
Is this a war for oil? The fact that Iran possesses the third-largest oil reserves on earth inevitably raises the question, as does the long history of U.S.-Iranian conflict over those reserves, including the CIA overthrowing a democratically elected leader who sought to nationalize them. When the U.S. attacked Venezuela in January, President Donald Trump openly said that he wanted to gain control of that country's vast oil reserves. Now more reporting is needed to establish just how much of a factor oil was in the decision to attack Iran.
What's beyond dispute is that this war could not be fought without oil. The aircraft carriers, jet planes, and the myriad support systems they require gobble immense quantities of fossil fuels. Which helps explain why the Department of Defense is the largest institutional emitter of greenhouse gases globally, as Neta Crawford, a professor at Oxford University, documents in her book The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War. If all of the world's militaries are counted together, their annual carbon footprint is bigger than all but three of the world's countries.
Given this war's immense implications—for the climate emergency and so much else—the question of why it was launched in the first place demands scrutiny, especially in view of the wild shifts in the Trump administration's stated rationales. Within 24 hours of the first missile strikes, The Washington Post cited four sources in the administration while reporting that 'U.S. intelligence assessments saw no immediate threat' from Iran. Nevertheless, Trump opted to attack, the Post reported, 'after a weeks-long lobbying effort' by Israel, which views Iran as a bitter enemy, and Saudi Arabia, Iran's long-standing regional rival and fellow petrostate. The International Atomic Energy Agency declared on March 3 that it found no evidence of a 'structured program to manufacture nuclear weapons' in Iran.
As with most wars, so with climate change: The poor and the innocent suffer most, often far from the titular battlefields. Climate change is not peripheral to but structurally embedded in modern warfare. Journalists cannot fully and fairly cover a war this carbon-intensive, destabilizing, and consequential if its climate dimensions are treated as optional add-ons rather than as core fact.
This article is published as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now.

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On Tuesday evening, Jan. 27, a group of us came together for the first meeting of the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission. The idea for this new initiative evolved during our collaborative efforts in the fall and winter last year to persuade Mayor Roger Reinert and the Duluth City Council to keep a full-time position for a sustainability officer in the 2026 city budget.
While lobbying the mayor and council, there was a growing realization that our city wasn't responding to the emerging impacts of various climate events with any sense of urgency, and citizens needed to step up and take a more active role in addressing climate change. Our group wanted to explore what we could accomplish in one year to engage, educate, and empower more citizens to become increasingly aware of what's taking place and then encourage them to become activists and leaders for our city's future.
Since the Duluth City Council received the 2018 climate-vulnerability assessment and passed its climate-emergency resolution in spring 2021, the impacts of climate change have become more intense and destructive.
On Jan. 14, the World Meteorological Organization announced that 2025 was one of the three warmest years on record.
Six days later, on Jan. 20, the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health declared Earth had entered 'a period of water bankruptcy' where many of the regions around the planet did not have enough rainfall and river flow to meet demand.
Then, on Feb. 15, Earth.com reported there are now more wildfires burning in Alaska than at any time over the past 3,000 years.
The next day, on Feb. 16, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change presented a new report recommending the European Union strengthen its climate-adaptation strategies, given that Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average. Also, it was reported that climate hazards will continue to increase in intensity and frequency, and the EU should prepare for 2.8 to 3.3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100.
It has become more apparent with each passing day that the president, federal government, and many of our current political leaders and institutions in the U.S. are not taking climate change seriously. In fact, many have turned their backs on this global crisis.
On Feb. 12, the Associated Press reported that the administration of President Donald Trump is revoking a scientific finding that had been the foundation of U.S. actions in addressing greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. It eliminates all greenhouse-gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could negate various climate regulations on power plants and oil and gas facilities. The administration's action overturns a 2009 government declaration that had determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were threatening the public health and welfare of citizens.
In her book, 'Facing the Climate Emergency,' Margaret Klein Salamon argued that we need to wake up and grow up right now if we hope to address climate change. 'When you face climate truth and let it transform you, you will become heroic, leveraging your talents, energy, and resources in service of protecting humanity and all of life,' Salamon wrote. 'No one is coming to save us, but together, we might be able to save ourselves.'
Many of us hope the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission can bring our community together in a collaborative effort in which we can leverage all of our talents, energy, and resources to help protect our city. We need to seriously explore and embrace new approaches to adapting to climate change while effectively responding to the ongoing challenges of our climate reality.
Over the next 10 months, the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission will host a town hall meeting, coordinate a climate-education initiative, reach out to our young people experiencing climate anxiety, encourage the public to read the 2018 climate-vulnerability assessment and the 2021 climate-emergency resolution, and sponsor a series of climate conversations.
Tone Lanzillo is a member of the Duluth/365 initiative on climate change and a regular contributor to the News Tribune Opinion page. He can be reached, including to get more information about the newly formed Duluth Citizens Climate Commission, at risson1954@gmail.com .

From the column: "Many of us hope the Duluth Citizens Climate Commission can bring our community together in a collaborative effort in which we can leverage ... our talents, energy, and resources."

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Abstract
Mosquito ecology and malaria parasite development in mosquitoes display marked sensitivity to weather, in particular to temperature and precipitation. Therefore, climate change is expected to profoundly affect malaria epidemiology in its transmission, spatiotemporal distribution and consequent disease burden. However, malaria transmission is also complicated by other factors (e.g.\ urbanisation, economics, genetics, drug resistance) which together constitute a highly complex, dynamical system, where the influence of any single factor is highly uncertain.
In this study, we therefore aim to re-evaluate the evidence underlying the widespread belief that climate change will increase worldwide malaria transmission. We firstly review the different types of studies that have contributed to this evidence-base: i) studies that project changes in transmission due to inferred relationships between environmental and mosquito entomology; ii) studies that focus on either mechanistic transmission or time series models to estimate the effects of malaria control strategies on prevalence, and iii) regression-based studies that look for associations between environmental variables and malaria prevalence. We then employ a simple statistical model to show that environmental variables alone do not account for the observed spatiotemporal variation in malaria prevalence.
Our review raises several concerns about the robustness of the analyses used for advocacy around climate change and malaria. We find that, while climate change's effect on malaria is highly plausible, empirical evidence is much less certain. Future research on climate change and malaria must become integrated into malaria control programs, and understood in context as one factor among many affecting malaria. Our work outlines gaps in modelling that we believe are priorities for future research.

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When most people think about climate change, their minds jump to increasing global temperatures, melting polar ice caps, and rising sea levels — and the fact that humanity sucks at curtailing the damage. However, climate change is far more complicated than these blanket environmental alterations. Climate change can cause unusual and extreme weather patterns, wreak havoc on the migrations of marine mammals, and cause sea levels to drop. Wait, what?
According to a recent study published in Nature, if climate change trends continue unaltered, the sea level around Greenland is expected to fall anywhere between 0.9 meters (2.95 feet) and 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) by around the year 2100. This can be confusing, considering the same study claims that Greenland's icy terrain will be a "primary contributor to rising sea levels" around the globe. It all starts with the country's name. It's no secret that Greenland isn't very green — that was a "marketing ploy" by Erik the Red. About 80% of Greenland is covered in ice sheets, and just like the Arctic ice sheets, these landbound glaciers are melting due to climate change.
Currently, Greenland is weighed down by the sheer mass of all that frozen water, pushing the island down into the Earth somewhat and raises its relative sea level. This phenomenon is known as solid Earth deformation, and as the ice melts, Greenland will rise higher than the waters produced by the ice thaw. According to the study, the release of solid Earth deformation will account for most of Greenland's dropping relative sea levels. But why not all of it? That is where explanations get a little weird.

Melting ice and interesting gravitational effects are causing the sea levels around Greenland to decrease, which is vastly different from the rest of the world.

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Life & Style | 11 minutes agoLeading engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, has joined forces with the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, a national initiative aimed at promoting climate resilience and
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Today we inaugurate a movement, the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour. It is a national call to action, a call to innovation, opportunity, and sustainable development for all Nigerians,
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Julius Berger Commits to Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour

Leading engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, has joined forces with the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour, a national initiative aimed at promoting climate resilience and sustainable development across Nigeria to further the goals of the project.
The initiative was inaugurated inside the State House Conference Centre, Abuja Tuesday.
Speaking at the event, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who was represented by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abbas Lawal, urged governors, Organised Private Sector actors and fellow stakeholders to lead Nigeria's climate transition, transforming awareness into practical action at all levels while calling on governors, private sector leaders, and stakeholders to accelerate Nigeria's transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy.
Tinubu, said climate change was not only a risk but also an opportunity for innovation, growth, and national development.
'Today we inaugurate a movement, the Renewed Hope Climate Change Awareness Tour. It is a national call to action, a call to innovation, opportunity, and sustainable development for all Nigerians,' Tinubu said.
Stressing that Nigeria stood at a defining moment as the global transition to low-carbon development accelerated, the President said, 'capital is shifting, markets are evolving, and technology is transforming industries. Nigeria intends to lead tomorrow.'
He explained that the tour would take climate awareness beyond conference halls into communities, engaging governors, traditional rulers, students, innovators, entrepreneurs, farmers, and financial institutions nationwide. By doing so, he added that bankable projects will be identified, local solutions unlocked, climate finance capacity strengthened, and partnerships between the public and private sectors mobilised.
To the stakeholders, the President said that nationally determined contributions were commitments to reduce emissions, enhance resilience, and safeguard communities, saying, 'commitments must be matched with action, supported by investment, and this tour bridges that gap.'
He further tasked young Nigerians to take ownership of the climate transition, stressing that their ideas, technology, and entrepreneurship would shape the nation's future while aligning with the Renewed Hope Agenda.
He Said, 'climate resilience is national security. Leadership is not a budget; it is a result we must accept with confidence. Nigeria chooses leadership over hesitation.'
Also, the Director of Forestry in the ministry, Halima Bawa, stressed the urgency of confronting climate change, noting its effects, including desert encroachment, flooding, coastal erosion, and erratic rainfall affecting farmers.
Lawal lauded the Climate Change Act 2021 for establishing a legal framework for coordinated climate governance, carbon budgeting, and a pathway to net-zero emissions by 2060, institutionalising climate action across sectors.
Special Assistant to the President on Climate Change Matters, Yussuf Kelani, said the tour represented a national movement grounded in leadership, collaboration, and commitment to Nigeria's environmental and economic security.
Kelani, Chairman of the REHCCAT Committee, said the initiative sought to democratise climate knowledge, align federal and state-level action with Nigeria's NDCs, and mobilise partnerships, green jobs, and climate finance.
Guest Speaker, Prof. Babajide Alo, emphasised that climate resilience required locally led adaptation, community empowerment, and capacity-building to actively manage climate risks and implement sustainable solutions.
'Securing Nigeria's climate future requires revisiting priorities and lifestyles, embracing responsible consumption, reducing carbon footprints, and embedding sustainable development in every sector,' Alo said, calling for action at all levels.
For Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, the Chief Risk Officer, Mrs. Shakira Mustapha, said the target of well-wishers of Nigeria is a net zero emission

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The third edition of the Climate Reality Check, a report on the depiction of climate change in feature filmmaking, was released this afternoon.
The report is compiled by Good Energy, a consultancy firm that works with TV and film creators telling stories about the climate crisis. The Climate Reality Check evaluates films and television series against the following criteria: whether climate change appears in the narrative media, and whether a character knows it.
The report states that sixteen Oscar-nominated scripted feature films met the eligibility criteria this year. To be eligible, a film must be set in the present, recent past, or future, on Earth. And of those sixteen, five passed the check. Those films were Arco, Bugonia, Jurassic World Rebirth, The Lost Bus, and Sirāt.
Five titles equals a 31% pass rate, up from 10% in 2025.
'Climate isn't a genre. These five films are strikingly different from one another, spanning genres, tones, and scales, from intimate animation to blockbuster franchise spectacle. Climate reality appears in satire and survival drama, in independent film and major studio releases alike,' the report read. 'Together, they show climate can unfold across countless cinematic forms, just as it unfolds across countless lived experiences.'
The report continued: 'In dark times, filmmaking is an act of courage. In a moment that calls for extraordinary bravery, creativity, and connection, these five films turn the lens toward the question before us: What does it mean to be human in the age of climate change?'

'Bugonia' was one of the titles to pass the Climate Reality Check test for environmental representation in films.

'Omitting the climate science chapter from the Reference Manual deprives judges of a carefully reviewed baseline explanation of the relevant science,' more than two dozen contributors to the Reference Manual wrote in an open letter.
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A group of more than two dozen scientists has criticized the removal of a chapter on climate change from a manual that for decades has equipped US judges, prosecutors and defend attorneys to better interpret the scientific complexities of the cases before them.
Since it was first issued in 1994 by the Federal Judicial Center in collaboration with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence has assisted federal and state judges and attorneys in managing cases that involve complex scientific, technical, or forensic evidence. Its content has been cited more than 1,300 times.
The manual's peer-reviewed chapters touch on topics spanning from engineering to forensic DNA, statistics to epidemiology, artificial intelligence to computer science. Until last month, the manual – now in its fourth edition – also included a chapter on climate science. But that chapter came under fire when 27 Republican state attorneys general claimed in a letter that the content was biased and threatened to undermine judicial impartiality.
The letter, led by West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey and dated January 29, said 'the Fourth Edition places the judiciary firmly on one side of some of the most hotly disputed questions in current litigation: climate-related science and 'attribution.'' The attorneys general called on the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) to 'immediately' remove the chapter, while simultaneously accusing the authors of framing climate litigation against states and fossil fuel producers as a primary tool for addressing 'pressing' environmental issues.
They went on to say that the authors omitted references to the Department of Energy's (DOE) recent report on climate change in favor of bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose authority the attorneys general appeared to contest.
In reality, the IPCC is widely recognized as the most authoritative international body for assessing the science of climate change. Conversely, the DOE's report on climate change, published last year, has faced intense scrutiny, with scientists flagging numerous inaccuracies and 'demonstrably incorrect' or 'misleading' claims. It was authored by a secretive panel of five handpicked climate change skeptics who were at the center of a legal dispute last month.
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On February 6, Judge Robin Rosenberg, the Director of the Federal Judicial Center, announced the chapter had been removed from the fourth edition.
On Monday, 28 co-authors of the Reference Manual issued an open letter, decrying the FJC's move as a 'political attack' and 'a direct challenge to the independence of the federal judiciary.'
'Omitting the climate science chapter from the Reference Manual deprives judges of a carefully reviewed baseline explanation of the relevant science. It leaves judges without a tool to evaluate the parties' framing, sometimes cherry-picked literature, and adversarially hired and paid witnesses,' they wrote, warning that the move could 'hurt litigants on both sides of climate litigation.'
With climate litigation cases on the rise in the US, '[j]udges will continue to confront complex scientific evidence in these cases, and they will now have to do so with or without the benefit of a carefully reviewed educational resource,' they concluded.
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Climate change is driving more train delays and cancellations for Brits, according to new research. Analysis by the Round Our Way organisation found that disruption linked to flooding has gone up by more than 50% in a decade.
There were 55 minutes lost for every million train journeys as a result of extreme rain in the mid-2010s, but the figure now stands at 87 minutes per million journeys. Meanwhile, there were 2,102 flood-related train cancellations last year, the research showed.
Gemma Plumb, a meteorologist at Weather Change, said: 'It's clear that train users are seeing more and more disruption to their journeys as a result of heavy rain and flooding, which is hugely frustrating for people who rely on the train network to get around.
'We know that climate change is leading to more extreme weather, including more intense rainfall. This is because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, so when it rains, it rains more."
Train operators in Scotland, Northern England and the South West have seen the highest total climate-related cancellations.
Sofie Jenkinson, co-director at Round Our Way, added: 'The rail network appears to be under persistent weather stress as climate change has started to have more regular impacts.
'This causes significantly more delays to train passengers. But it is also a problem for rail operators, particularly the large inter-city train operators running services into regions of the country that are worst hit by flooding, like the South West, Scotland and Wales.
'The significant rise in delays shows the increased impact of extreme weather caused by climate change, raising concerns about safety beneath the surface of our creaking rail infrastructure for passengers and operators alike.
'We are not prepared for the impact that climate change is already having on ordinary Brits' way of life.
"There are political consequences to this lack of preparedness that will be felt at national, regional and local levels.
"It's clear that long-term resilience planning and investments are essential if we want to keep the rail network moving, and for future-proofing our country alongside ongoing efforts to bring down emissions.
'We are all sadly getting very familiar with the impact climate change-driven extreme weather is having on the country. This is worrying but it is also fixable.
"Politicians need to show leadership to better prepare us for weather extremes and challenge the companies profiting from pollution which creates these impacts in the first place."
The decade 2015-2024 has been 2% wetter than 1991–2020 and 10% wetter than 1961–1990, according to the Met Office.
Every one degree of global warming is projected to cause a 7% increase in extreme daily rainfall, according to the World Meteorological Organisation.

Warning that train users are "seeing more and more disruption to their journeys as a result of heavy rain and flooding".

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Dar es Salaam — THE Dar es Salaam region has officially launched an action plan to tackle climate change by transforming waste into resources, generating clean energy, and creating employment opportunities for Tanzanians.
The launch, overseen by the Dar es Salaam City Council in partnership with the UK Embassy, aims to strengthen environmental and economic strategies within the city.
Speaking at the event, Dar es Salaam Mayor Nurdin Juma said the initiative seeks to shift perceptions of waste from being a problem to becoming an opportunity for social and economic development. He noted that the launch brought together various stakeholders, experts, accountants, and leaders to build capacity on effective climate change responses while increasing citizens' income and expanding access to clean energy.
City Council Director Elihuruma Mabelya described the plan as a major strategic step that will help the city manage waste more efficiently, turning it into a source of employment and revenue for residents. He explained that through its implementation, the city will strengthen systems for waste collection, processing, and recycling, while promoting innovation in alternative energy production.
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Abdalla Shah, Environmental and Climate Change Advisor from the UK Embassy, emphasized that it is time for the world to ensure every development activity integrates climate action to protect the environment for future generations. He stressed the importance of collaboration between government, private sector, and development partners to take effective measures to reduce the impacts of climate change.
The meeting was attended by representatives from the Office of the Vice President, Prime Minister's Office, regional leaders, Dar es Salaam councillors, and various development stakeholders, to enhance cooperation in the fight against climate change and promote sustainable development in the city.

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