This momentum is also highlighting the intensifying urgency for the African continent to diversify its economies. Global climate action will affect Africa’s resource-rich countries Climate change will affect African countries, with the heaviest toll on the poor and most vulnerable. Extreme weather ...
The term "climate emergency" has risen to prominence as a descriptor for the existential threat posed by climate change. It encapsulates a sense of urgency and the need for immediate, transformative action to address the escalati...
Climate Crisis, is a variable font designed to help visualise the urgency of climate change, designed for Helsingin Sanomat, the largest Nordic newspaper. The typeface’s weight responds to the levels of Arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2019 and predictions for 2050, based on data from the National...
The urgency of addressing emergency risk is being used to motivate the urgency of reducing the incremental risk from emissions. Ironicallly, attempts to reduce emissions are exacerbating energy poverty and unreliability, which is increasing emergency risk. One would logically think that if warming is ...
I hope this report will raise awareness of the vital need to scale up the urgency and ambitionof climateaction. Itakethis opportunityto congratulate andthankthe experts and lead authorswho compiledthisreport. I extend my gratitudeto allthe contributors, National Meteorological and HydrologicalServices ...
Guterres concluded with a message of hope and urgency, "The message is clear: we can break the deadly nexus of hunger, climate chaos, and conflict. And quell the threat they pose to international peace and security."■
Considering the impact on human health of these increasingly common extreme environmental events and conditions, many stakeholders across the health care ecosystem are finally beginning to feel a broad sense of urgency. The medical research community now fully recognizes the human health impacts of clim...
A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing RhetoricDebra Hawhee
Sixth, even among those who acknowledge the urgency of the problem, there’s a sense of defeatism – since governments aren’t addressing the climate crisis, they believe there’s little they can do to change what seems inevitable. And many of those who are sixty years old and older simply...
These problems add urgency to international efforts to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by developing new medicines, and by blocking the pathways through which pathogen immunity spreads. They also mean climate change will loom large when governments gather on the sidelines of theUN General Assembly...