Aruna Chandrasekhar

1 month ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Giuliana Viglione |Daisy Dunne

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. IF A TREE FALLS: US president Donald Trump last week signed a pair of executive orders “to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands”, Axios reported.

1 month ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Daisy Dunne |Orla Dwyer

Countries have agreed at the resumed COP16 talks in Rome to a strategy for “mobilising” at least $200bn per year by 2030 to help developing countries conserve biodiversity. Nations also agreed for the first time to a “permanent arrangement” for providing biodiversity finance to developing nations, “future-proofing” the flow of funds past 2030.

1 month ago | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Yanine Quiroz |Giuliana Viglione |Daisy Dunne

We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight. This is an online version of Carbon Brief’s fortnightly Cropped email newsletter. Subscribe for free here. CALI CARRIES ON: The UN biodiversity summit, COP16, resumed in Rome yesterday after the countries failed to reach agreement on several key issues in Cali, Colombia last year.

2 months ago | eco-business.com | Aruna Chandrasekhar |Ayesha Tandon

The breach of one of the “largest, fastest-growing and most hazardous” glacial lakes in Sikkim, the South Lhonak lake, led to cascading floods that killed 55 people and washed away a 1,200 megawatt (MW) hydropower dam. The event was identified as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), which is a sudden release of water from a lake fed by glacial melt. The research, published in Science, explores the many drivers of the GLOF, its extensive impacts and policy implications going forward.

Jan 10, 2025 | carbonbrief.org | Aruna Chandrasekhar

Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change. ‘MOST DESTRUCTIVE’: At least 10 people have been killed and more than 9,000 buildings have been gutted in wildfires “scorching communities” across Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported in its latest update on Friday. There are multiple fires burning across LA county, including the 15,800-acre Palisades fire that CNN described as the “most destructive fire in LA history”.