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Weekly Climate News

Feb. 4, 2021

  • New Zealand climate advisers are encouraging steep cuts in carbon emissions to align with the 1.5 C global warming limit. 

  • Exxon Mobil, one of the world's largest international oil and gas companies, invested $3 billion in carbon capture.  

  • General Motors announced a phase-out of petroleum-powered cars and trucks, promising to sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The company has also set goals for carbon neutrality by 2040.

  • Due to long-standing environmental injustices, Chicago’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan put polluted communities last, which left poorer communities of color among the last to receive the vaccine. 

  • U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order that strongly encourages the federal government to exclusively purchase zero-emission vehicles. 

  • A U.S. research institution that studies the impact of climate change in the Arctic has announced that it will be significantly enhancing efforts to connect the science it funds with the communities that live in the region.

  • Greenland’s glacier retreat is accelerating as a result of warming seas in response to climate change. 

  • Human pollution has been found deep in the world’s oceans. Read about it here.

Weekly Climate News

December 3, 2020

  • Outdoor heating systems have made an emergence into the outdoor dining scene as a result of the pandemic. Read this article on how they impact the environment. 

  • A compromise was reached between European and Saudi Arabian leaders on climate change at the G20 summit.

  • Bates Smart, an architecture firm in Melbourne, Australia, made plans to turn 1,200 acres of empty parking garage roofs into rooftop gardens.  

  • A joint U.S. and European satellite that will monitor the world’s oceans and the rise of global sea levels launched Nov. 21. 

  • Global warming makes Northeastern forests more susceptible to the large-scale wildfires that frequently light up the western United States. 

  • Natural disasters are increasing around the world, leaving marginalized and less advantaged communities in extremely dangerous living conditions.   

  • The United Nations will make building a global net-zero emissions coalition a priority for 2021. 

  • Canada is set to put a goal for net-zero emissions by 2050 into law. 

  • New Zealand declared a climate change emergency. 


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