Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study. This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotspots for deadly disease spread from humans to animals or vice versa over the last several decades, including the flu, HIV, Ebola and coronavirus. Researchers, who published their findings Thursday in the

THE concerns about the planet’s future have heightened significantly over the past eight months. There is a serious disconnect between ambition and action. Even though efforts are far from enough along in this journey, substantive change can only come with bold, collective action for the needle to move. About two-thirds of executives say their companies are very concerned about climate change and 79% see the world at tipping point, a number that was at 59% in a similar Deloitte’s survey done in

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Join our Whatsapp channel The climate is changing rapidly, resulting in a range of new risks and vulnerabilities for rural people.... As a result of climate change, extreme weather events are intensifying and becoming more frequent; heat waves are increasing in intensity and duration; seasons are changing, and global water cycles are intensifying, leading to more frequent and severe droughts and floods.... Studies show that these changes have profound effects on agricultural systems and on the

KUALA LUMPUR: Recent global developments can heighten the prospects of delaying the progress of the financial sector’s transition to undertake sustainability efforts and underscore the need for the sector to strengthen its response to climate change, says the Joint Committee on Climate Change( JC3). JC3, which is co-chaired by Bank Negara and the Securities Commission( SC), comprises Bursa Malaysia Bhd and 19 other industry participants. The committee held its seventh meeting on Tuesday with dis

KUALA LUMPUR: The country needs to pay serious attention to the impact of rising global temperatures of above 1.1 degrees Celsius which results in climate change such as dry season and frequent floods, says Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. The Prime Minister said the matter was emphasised at the Third Meeting of the National Water Council( MAN) 2021 which he chaired virtually.It was also attended by federal ministers, Chief Ministers and Mentris Besar, Chief Secretary to the Government, Treasury

PARIS-Growing numbers of people around the world, most of them poor, are being uprooted from their homes due to climate change. Last year, more than 40 million people were uprooted due to conflict and disasters, the highest figure in 10 years, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.... Disasters, mostly weather-related such as storms, floods and wild fires, triggered more than three times more displacements than conflict and violence in 2020." Increasingly, we are seeing clima

We do not have time to make plans or strategies to deal with this situation; we are already in a crisis situation.” He said climate change is no longer about climate talk; it is all about climate action.... Climate change will not be solved unless we make peace with nature.... Taimur Malik, co-founder of Drawdown Farm, speaking at Breathe Pakistan....

It should be blindingly obviousthat long, long before the immediate physical or economic effects of climate change become really disastrous as far as wealthy countries are concerned, the effects on poorer countries and fragile states would drive vast masses of people from their homes in a desperate

It became trivial to say that climate change is the main reason and a trigger for the recent significant changes in the Arctic region. Indeed, climate change can exacerbate existing drivers of instability in the Arctic, and may lead to disputes over trade routes, maritime zones and resources previo