Keďže žijeme v dobe, v ktorej sú dôsledky klimatickej nestability čoraz zreteľnejšie, je pre jednotlivcov, komunity a národy kľúčové, aby prevzali zodpovednosť za svoj vplyv na životné prostredie. Jedným zo základných pojmov v tomto smere je uhlíková stopa. V tomto príspevku rozoberáme zložitosť uhlíkovej stopy, jej význam a spôsoby, ako ju znížiť. Pochopením a riešením našej stopy môžeme prispieť k udržateľnejšej budúcnosti. (Causeartist)

Climate change is one of the most dangerous challenges of our time. It is undoubtedly an existential threat to humanity's survival on the planet. Despite great efforts in recent decades, awareness of this topic is still limited and hindered by political, economic, social and cultural reasons. Former US Vice President Al Gore's documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth", released in 2006, was the politician's first major effort to present to a global audience the catastrophes of global warming and the need for preventive measures on the part of the whole world. (AJMAL SHAMS)

The new directive on consumer empowerment in the green transition received the support of 544 MPs, with 18 lawmakers voting against and 17 abstaining. The main goal of the legislation is to help consumers make ecological decisions and to motivate companies to offer more durable and sustainable products.

Prohibition of misleading advertising and general environmental claims

The Parliament's approved mandate for negotiations with member states envisages a ban on the use of general environmental labels such as "environmentally friendly", "natural", "biodegradable", "climate neutral" or "eco", if these claims are not supported by detailed evidence. In addition, it also plans to ban environmental labels that are based solely on CO2 compensation systems. The ban will also cover other misleading practices, such as making claims about the entire product if the claim is true for only one part of it, or claims about how long the product will last or what load it will bear if they are not true. To simplify product information, only those sustainability labels that are in line with the official certification system or established by public authorities should be used.

BEUC members have identified several examples of 17 European airlines using misleading practices aimed at consumers. According to members, the claim that the payment of additional credits can "neutralize", "offset" or "offset" carbon dioxide emissions from aviation is incorrect, as the actual climate benefits of such offsetting efforts remain highly uncertain, while the harms of carbon emissions from aviation are unquestionable. In addition, members said airlines are also misleading consumers by charging them an additional price to contribute to the development of "sustainable aviation fuels".

What is extreme heat?
Extreme heat is defined from a baseline of average temperature in any location, which varies widely around the world. So 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit) could be a record high in some parts of Canada this spring, but the Middle East could be below average for the same period. (Sarah HUSSEIN)

World leaders and finance chiefs attend the final session of the New Global Financial Pact summit on Friday, June 23, 2023 in Paris, France. The aim of the two-day climate and finance summit was to set concrete measures to help poor and developing countries, whose plight has worsened due to the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, to better address poverty and climate change. Lewis Joly/Pool via REUTERS. (Simon Jessop, Leigh Thomas, Tommy Wilkes)

This summer, deep in the crevasses of a glacier the size of Britain, Dr. Alex Brisbourne will try to uncover information that could affect all of humanity. There are clues hidden in the ice of the Thwaites Glacier – a vast Antarctic glacier named after American geologist Frederik T Thwaites – that will show whether a catastrophic collapse is imminent, triggering a rapid slide into Antarctic waters that could lead to the Big Four. – meter increase sea level. Global temperatures are now warming so rapidly and polar ice is retreating so rapidly that scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have warned that the world may have already reached a tipping point. (Thomas Harding)

Narratives influence decision-making, especially when it comes to complex issues like climate change. What are the key elements of the narrative? This column presents a framework that combines the "dramatic triangle" with large language models. Studying U.S. tweets about climate change policy, the framework shows, for example, that narratives portraying the U.S. government as the villain and corporations as the heroes taking action are on the rise. Narratives that cater to popular (mis)perceptions and stereotypes to gain popularity are a tool of populists. (Kai Gehring)

Global warming and the expansion of the built environment are expected to intensify the urban heat island (UHI) effect and associated adverse health effects. A new study shows that increasing tree cover to 30 % would reduce temperatures by an average of 0.4°C, preventing about 1.8 % of all summer deaths in European cities and nearly 40 % deaths attributable to UHI effects.

Global warming and the expansion of the built environment are expected to intensify the urban heat island (UHI) effect and associated adverse health effects. A new study shows that increasing tree cover to 30 % would reduce temperatures by an average of 0.4°C, preventing about 1.8 % of all summer deaths in European cities and nearly 40 % deaths attributable to UHI effects.

The Belmont Forum is an initiative of the global scientific community, including European scientific organizations, to promote international transdisciplinary research to understand, mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. The new call aims to promote transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches in the field of cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration between the research community in several regions, and to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and policy change at the global level. One of the themes of the challenge is cultural heritage as a resource for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave an impromptu speech during the Summit on the New Global Financial Pact held on June 23 in Paris.  In addition to discussions on key topics for Brazilian diplomacy, such as deforestation, global warming or the agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, he defended the importance of the fight against inequality. (Julio Adamor)

The new scheme could create huge amounts of carbon credits to unlock financial support for rich countries to transition from coal to clean energy in emerging economies. Coal for Clean Credit Initiative aims to fill funding gaps in the Just Energy Transition Partnerships (Jetp), agreed last year by rich nations and Indonesia, South Africa a Vietnam , to wean them off coal power. (Matteo Civillini)

In 2010 a Berkeley Lab study using data from NASA, estimated that the use of "cool roof" techniques on the roofs and pavements of all cities in the Northern Hemisphere could have the one-time effect of removing more than 44 billion tons of carbon dioxide—24 billion tons from roofs and 20 billion tons from pavements. That's more than all global carbon emissions combined each year. (Steve Hanley)

Major ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have pledged all-electric fleets by 2030 in a bid to reduce their carbon footprint. To understand the further implications of this transition, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Michigan performed  comparing the life cycle of a fleet of battery-powered electric vehicles with a gas-powered fleet, using real-world ride-sharing data and a new. An agent-based model built in Julia to simulate ride-hailing services with high geospatial and temporal resolution. An article about their work is published in the journal ACS Environmental Science & Technology .

Previous research has highlighted the importance of emotions in how we perceive risks, as well as the influence of mental imagery in eliciting emotions. This study examines the link between mental imagery, affect, and risk perception by manipulating the level of mental imagery into three categories: reinforced, spontaneous, or antecedent. The study operationalizes risk as the perceived risk of climate change among participants in response to the increasing environmental risk of adverse events due to climate change. (Bhavana Kunkalikar)

Macron was speaking at the closing panel of the summit in Paris, where some 40 leaders, including two dozen from Africa, China's premier and Brazil's president, gathered to give impetus to a new global financial agenda. It aims to support crisis financing for low-income countries and ease their debt burden, reform post-war financial systems and free up funds to fight climate change by reaching a consensus at the highest level on how to support a number of initiatives struggling in bodies such as G20, COP, IMF-World Bank and United Nations. More information FRANCE 24's Oliver Farry and Thomas Friang, founder and CEO of the Open Diplomacy Institute.

Fifty heads of state and government, as well as representatives from more than 100 countries they met yesterday in Paris at the summit to address the sensitive issues of international debt and green finance. They did so against a backdrop of troubling – and deadly – climate developments. A life was lost in India this week nearly 100 people in sweltering, unusually high temperatures. One district hospital in Uttar Pradesh, where temperatures soared to 43C - five degrees above the normal range for a month - admitted at least 400 people. Of those, 54 died of suspected heart attacks, strokes and diarrhea, authorities said.

Published calendar reflects the operation of the market stability reserve (MSR) from September to December 31, 2023. Following the publication of the total number of allowances in circulation in 2022 by the Commission on May 15, 2023, the auction volumes from September to December 2023 are reduced by 90,783,578 allowances, which are placed in MSR. The calendar also includes the start of trading of allowances allocated to the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in the form of an auction under the REPowerEU plan. This plan was adopted in February 2023 and aims to generate €20 billion in revenue by 31 August 2026

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell, Special Envoy of the US President for Climate John Kerry, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans met in Brussels on June 21 to discuss the impact of climate change for peace and security.