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Rivers that supply Santiago with water are running low, forcing rotating cuts to different parts of the city As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile has announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million. “A city can’t live without water,” Claudio Orrego,

Publication date: July 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 197 Author(s): Lina Tennhardt, Gianna Lazzarini, Rainer Weisshaidinger, Christian Schader

Activists call for end to fossil fuel investment at sit-down demonstration in Regent Street and Oxford Circus Supporters of the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion have taken part in a mass sit-down protest in the heart of London’s shopping district. Several thousand demonstrators with multicoloured flags bearing the group’s “extinction” symbol gathered near Marble Arch

Image-focused social network says it will take down content that distorts or denies facts of climate crisis Pinterest is to block all climate misinformation, as the image-focused social network seeks to limit the spread of false and misleading claims. Under the new policy the site is committing to take down content that distorts or denies

Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in the room looming over the release of the third and final report, out this week, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,

António Guterres says the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals ‘a litany of broken climate promises’ by governments and businesses, and accuses some of them of lying in claiming to be on track to limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In a strongly worded rebuke, he says: ‘It