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Blue Print: Belize offers to protect reef in exchange for debt relief

November 6, 2021684 Views

Belize provided a likely 'blue' model for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable marine ecosystems on Friday, swapping a promise to protect the northern Hemisphere's biggest barrier reef for much-needed debt relief. While urgent efforts to limit global warming are expected to see at least half a trillion dollars of 'green' bonds this year, 'blue' bonds are still in their infancy, despite estimates that oceans contribute around $3 trillion per year to global GDP. Financial incentives have been one of the main pillars of efforts at the United Nations COP26 climate change summit to tackle rising temperatures, with demands from poorer countries for increased help from richer states. An undated photo shows the effect of "bleaching" on coral off Caye Caulker, Belize. REUTERS/Su...

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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will survive if warming kept to 1.5 degrees

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November 5, 2021297 Views

A study released on Friday by an Australian university looking at multiple catastrophes hitting the Great Barrier Reef has found for the first time that only 2% of its area has escaped bleaching since 1998, then the world's hottest year on record. If global warming is kept to 1.5 degrees, the maximum rise in average global temperature that was the focus of the COP26 United Nations climate conference, the mix of corals on the Barrier Reef will change but it could still thrive, said the study's lead author Professor Terry Hughes, of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. "If we can hold global warming to 1.5 degrees global average warming then I think we'll still have a vibrant Great Barrier Reef," he said. Bleaching is a stress response ...

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New tourism coalition brings together world leaders to accelerate Net Zero transition

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November 5, 2021459 Views

# New Sustainable Tourism Global Center (STGC) signals tourism's commitment to achieving net-zero emissions# Global sector figures join the STGC conversation at COP26 – from former state presidents to leading institutions# STGC aims for greater collaboration between public and private tourism sectors to help reach net-zero, protect nature and support communities A new coalition will accelerate tourism's transition to net zero, audiences at COP26 heard today. Ministers from major tourism destinations and leaders from international organizations have voiced their support to achieve a sustainable travel and tourism industry, through the Sustainable Tourism Global Center (STGC). The STGC is a multi-country, multi-stakeholder coalition established to lead, accelerate, and track the touri...

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Tourism unites behind the Glasgow Declaration on climate action at COP26

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November 4, 2021337 Views

The ‘Glasgow Declaration for Climate Action in Tourism’ was launched On Thursday at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26. Some of tourism’s biggest businesses have joined governments and destinations in committing to cut emissions in half by 2030 and achieve Net Zero by 2050 at the latest. The Glasgow Declaration recognizes the urgent need for a globally consistent plan for climate action in tourism. Signatories commit to measure, decarbonize, regenerate and unlock finance. Additionally, each signatory commits to deliver a concrete climate action plan, or updated plan, within 12 months of signing. Speaking at COP26, UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili stressed that “while many private businesses have led the way in advancing climate action, a more ambitious sector-wid...

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From G20 to COP26: UNWTO guides tourism through critical week

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November 2, 2021304 Views

At the start of a crucial week for global governance, tourism’s relevance will be part of the discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), just as it was in Rome when G20 leaders met to coordinate plans for sustainable and inclusive recovery. In Italy, UNWTO succeeded in placing tourism’s importance in the spotlight. The leaders of some of the world’s biggest economies endorsed the G20 Rome Guidelines for the Future of Tourism, committing themselves to taking action to fulfil its objectives, particularly to accelerate the return of safe and seamless travel and the digital transformation of the sector. The G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration states: “We will continue to support a rapid, resilient, inclusive and sustainable recovery of the tourism sector”, with a special emp...

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In its ancient birthplace, wine faces a climate change-imperiled future

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October 31, 2021913 Views

* Wine believed to have originated in Georgia 8,000 years ago* Worsening hail and extreme weather driving growing grape losses* Farmers turn to hail-blasting rockets - planting hazelnuts The grapes in Solomon Nersezashvili’s vineyard were almost ripe when a massive hailstorm hit in late August. In just 30 minutes, the ice wiped out most of the harvest - and months of hard work. Such storms have long plagued Georgia’s Kakheti region in the foothills of the Caucasus mountains, regarded by many as the birthplace of wine. But their growing frequency and intensity - a problem linked to climate change - has triggered a debate over the future of grape-growing in Georgia, including among Nersezashvili’s relatives. The summer storm cost their family-run business $200,000 in lost re...

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Travel & tourism has opportunity to move to mainstream of climate resilience

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October 30, 2021374 Views

The COVID pandemic has severely disrupted the global economy and decimated the Travel & Tourism sector, with international travel declining by 73% in 2020 and domestic travel by estimated 34%. However, it showed that the government and tourism sector can act rapidly to boost resilience and radically change operational strategies and underlying regulations when faced with extreme situations. SUNx Malta has recently released its 2021 Report on Climate Friendly Travel, ahead of the Glasgow Climate COP26. It calls for a DASH-2-Zero now - for climate resilience, emission reduction & sustainability - responding to the UN Code Red for Humanity. SUNx is an EU-based NGO established as a legacy for climate and sustainability trailblazer, Maurice Strong. The SUNx Report calls for a...

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Mighty river to muddy trickle: South America’s Parana rings climate alarm

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October 28, 2021668 Views

# Parana has retreated to lowest level in 77 years# River is vital for commercial shipping and fishing# Grain transport snarled in Argentina and Paraguay Gustavo Alcides Diaz, an Argentine fisherman and hunter from a river island community, is at home on the water. The Parana River once lapped the banks near his wooden stilt home that he could reach by boat. Fish gave him food and income. He purified river water to drink. Now the 40-year-old looks out on a trickle of muddy water. The Parana, South America's second-largest river behind only the Amazon, has retreated this year to its lowest level since its record low in 1944, hit by cyclical droughts and dwindling rainfall upriver in Brazil. Climate change only worsens those trends. The decline of the waterway, which knits t...

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UN warns world set for 2.7C rise on current emissions pledges

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October 27, 2021661 Views1

Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for an average 2.7 degrees Celsius temperature rise this century, a United Nations report said on Tuesday, in another stark warning ahead of crunch climate talks. Governments will be in the spotlight at the COP26 conference next week to meet a deadline of this year to commit to more ambitious cut pledges, in what could be the last chance to put the world on track to limiting warming to below 2C above pre-industrial levels and ideally to 1.5C (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). FILE PHOTO: Exhaust fumes are seen coming from a vehicle stopped at traffic lights in Jakarta. REUTERS/Beawiharta As extreme weather events from wildfires to floods have hit countries around the world, a U.N. report in August warned that glob...

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Greenhouse gas levels hit record last year

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October 25, 20211280 Views

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a record last year and the world is "way off track" in capping rising temperatures, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark illustration of the task facing climate talks in Glasgow. A report by the U.N. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed carbon dioxide levels surged to 413.2 parts per million in 2020, rising more than the average rate over the last decade despite a temporary dip in emissions during COVID-19 lockdowns. WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said the current rate of increase in heat-trapping gases would result in temperature rises "far in excess" of the 2015 Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average this century. "We are way off track," he said. "We need to revisit our industr...