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为什么一些国家的目标是“净负”排放？
上个月，德国成为第一个宣布打算在本世纪末实现“净负”排放目标的主要经济体。
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Explainer: Why some countries are aiming for ‘net-negative’ emissions
Last month, Germany became the first major economy to announce that it intends to introduce a target to reach “net-negative” emissions later this century.
Geografías en profundidad
Deadly drought in Horn of Africa ‘would not have happened’ without climate change
For more than two years, countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia have faced their driest conditions in four decades.
Geografías en profundidad
Q&A: How the EU wants to race to net-zero with ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’
At least 40% of the EU’s low-carbon technologies – from solar panels to heat pumps – will need to be made within its borders by 2030 under new plans.
Acción climática
Climate resilience: Is the UK ready for the impacts of global warming?
Every area of UK society will feel the effects of climate change and, as global emissions continue to rise, preparing for life in a warmer world is crucial.
Transición energética
Fossil fuels: Is the world on track for moving past coal, oil and gas production?
Scientists, economists and Indigenous activists met in Oxford in September to discuss a challenge central to solving climate change: how can the world rid itself of fossil fuels?
Acción climática
Explainer: Can climate change and biodiversity loss be tackled together?
A wildfire racing across a hillside has become emblematic of climate change. And for good reason: a quarter of the world’s natural landscapes now face longer fire seasons as a result of w...
Acción climática
Climate change ‘already’ raising risk of virus spread between mammals
Mammals forced to move to cooler climes amid global warming are “already” spreading their viruses further – with “undoubtable” impacts for human health, a new study says.
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Greenland to lose ice far faster this century than in the past 12,000 years
The scale of loss from the Greenland ice sheet will be higher this century than in any other over the past 12,000 years, a new study concludes.
Naturaleza y Biodiversidad
US sees ‘alarming’ increase in combined heatwaves and droughts
Climate change has driven an “alarming” increase in the number of years with both heatwaves and droughts across the US over the past five decades, a study finds.
Acción climática
Arctic sea ice shrinks to second-lowest 'summer minimum' on record
Each year, Arctic sea ice goes through a seasonal cycle, growing in area and thickness through the cooler winter months before shrinking back again as temperatures rise in the spring and ...
Naturaleza y Biodiversidad
‘Extreme’ glacier loss events linked to human-caused climate change for first time
The rapidly evolving scientific field of “extreme event event attribution” has detected the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on a wide range of extreme weather events, including...
Acción climática
Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change
Siberia’s prolonged heat from January to June this year – which broke temperature records and drove polluting megafires – would have been “almost impossible” without human-caused climate ...
Acción climática
Scientists discover new ‘human fingerprint’ on global drought patterns
There is a detectable “human fingerprint” on decreasing rainfall over the US, central Asia and southern Africa, according to the results. It is also detectable on increasing rainfall in t...
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South pole warmed ‘three times faster’ than global average over past 30 years
The Amundsen-Scott station, located at Antarctica’s south pole, recorded warming that was three times higher than the global average from 1989 to 2018, according to the research.