Climate Breakdown

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-09 Broken Planet Headlines 9 1.   Text adapted from Carbon Brief's June 11th Daily Briefing : Beginning with recent science, "A major new report warns that the dual challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss cannot be solved unless they are tackled together.  The peer-reviewed report is the first collaboration between the two UN scientific bodies the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.  Together, the groups “warn that the world is currently not doing enough to recognise that the climate and nature crises are inextricably linked,” with the two often “treated as separate issues in the political arena”. The report identifies actions to tackle the two issues simultaneously including “expanding nature reserves and restoring – or halting the loss of – ecosystems rich in species and carbon, such as forests, natu

Hear the episode here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/14101666/episode-08-barbara-wright-from-the-refug Broken Planet Headlines 8 1.   Beginning with recent science, a new report from the UN's World Meteorological Association finds that the world faces a 40% chance of one year in the next five being 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th century levels.  This refers to the average temperature increase globally during the year and is not necessarily likely to mean the threshold has been crossed permanently, as countries pledged to avoid under the Paris Agreement.  The report also found that there is a 90% chance one of the next five years will be the hottest on record. Meanwhile another new report, published in the journal Earth System Dynamics , suggests that climate tipping points could have a domino effect on one another as they interact, leading to severe consequences.  A tipping point is the threshold at which an ecosystem - such as the Amazon Rainforest or Greenland ice sheet -