The Global Initiative for Food Security and Preservation (GIFSEP) has expressed worries over the under-representation of climate change impact in the 2023 election campaigns. The NGO, therefore, called on Nigerians to vote for candidates that have a climate action plan. The Executive Director and Team Lead of the GIFSEP, an NGO, Mr David Terungwa, said […]
The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Farms. Will Small Towns Go Along? – EQ Mag
In the fight against climate change, national goals are facing local resistance. One county scheduled 19 nights of meetings to debate one wind farm. MONTICELLO, Ill. : Depressed property values. Flickering shadows. Falling ice. One by one, a real estate appraiser rattled off what he said were the deleterious effects of wind farms as a […]
Climate Change Is Affecting Tea Farming In India And How Carbon Credit Markets Can Be A Solution – EQ Mag
India is the world’s second-largest tea producer and more than half of the production comes only from Assam. The NE state, according to a climate vulnerability index, was recently identified as one of the most climate-vulnerable states in India. In a 2018 survey of tea-farm workers in Assam, 88% of plantation managers and 97% of […]
Hydrogen heating trial treats us like guinea pigs – residents – EQ Mag
“I wake up in the night thinking about it,” Maria Morgan says. “We’re guinea pigs.” Maria is on the front line of the UK’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Her house in Whitby in Ellesmere Port, north-west England, is one of 2,000 homes earmarked to have its supply of natural […]
Carbon Removal in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act – EQ Mag
In the last year, the federal government has committed to spend more than $580 billion to combat climate change through the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Within this $580 billion, there is significant funding supporting development and deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – approaches and technologies […]
Bill Gates: Our grandchildren will pay if we don’t fix climate change – EQ Mag
Bill Gates funds climate adaptation through his namesake philanthropic venture, the Gates Foundation, and he invests in climate tech companies through his investment firm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures. “Getting to zero will be the hardest thing humans have ever done,” Gates writes in his year-end letter published Tuesday. “We need to revolutionize the entire physical economy—how […]
NDC urges govt. to prepare for impact of climate change in the Nilgiris – EQ Mag
The Nilgiri Documentation Center (NDC) has urged the government to incorporate “climate change preparedness” into its Special Area Development Programme plans, to address potential challenges that the Nilgiris could face due to climate change. The NDC had also urged the State Planning Council to form a special cell to study, monitor, and advise the government […]
India has opportunity to take lead in tackling climate change: Union Minister – EQ Mag
Silchar : India can play a big role to tackle climate change globally, said Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Education Dr. R K Ranjan. On the sidelines of a programme at Assam University in Silchar on Sunday, he said that at a time when the world is reeling under food and energy […]
What the World Really Needs to Adapt to Climate Change – EQ Mag
From deadly floods in Pakistan to drought-driven starvation in the Horn of Africa, the system-wide effects of the climate change crisis are already here. Even if the world hits its target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) — which all signs point to us overshooting — many dangerous climate […]
Scatec recognised with ‘A’ score for transparency on climate change – EQ Mag
Oslo : Scatec ASA, a leading renewable energy company in emerging markets, has been recognised for its leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by global environmental non-profit CDP, securing a place on its annual ‘A List’. Based on data reported through CDP’s 2022 Climate Change questionnaire, Scatec is one of a small […]