🌏Rounding today's climate change news 👇
The world doesn't have the ‘luxury' of waiting for the pandemic to end before tackling climate change, says U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, as the world continues to see the effects of a warming planet reut.rs/2UWYEfB 1/6☀️
🌡 In the UK, Britain’s Met Office announced its first amber extreme heat alert due to unusually high temperatures, warning of its health risks and business impacts reut.rs/3BktxeF 2/6
Catastrophic floods that swept Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands that killed more than 150 people led to urges in Europe for adapting infrastructure now as extreme weather events take place reut.rs/3zggE3j 3/6
The Bootleg forest fire in Oregon continues to rage in a heavier than normal start to the Western forest fire season, which has coincided with a heat wave that killed hundreds of people and is seen as symptomatic of climate change reut.rs/3xXhOki 4/6
📈 The IAEA warned that the economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic would drive greenhouse gas emissions to a new high, and the current spending on clean energy represented a third of what would be needed to reach net zero emissions by 2050 reut.rs/2UswEAw 5/6
Climate envoy Kerry says the world must go beyond the pledges in the Paris Agreement at #COP26 to keep the world’s average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Climate Action Tracker says the world is on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming reut.rs/3kQQMaD 6/6
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