Vanessa Nakate’s Post

“Nearly 3 billion people face water scarcity. Crops are shriveling and cities are sinking as the groundwater beneath them dries out. Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives, according to a landmark new report.” https://lnkd.in/dsZbf69r

"Crops failed, livestock has perished and children are lucky to receive even one meal per day. The situation is dire, and the need for action has never been clearer," said Phiri. Amid unprecedented drought conditions, a record five countries - Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - have declared a state of disaster and called for international humanitarian support, the U.N. agency said. Angola and Mozambique are also badly affected and around 21 million children are malnourished.” https://lnkd.in/dQkkCMBt

“The Australian gas industry has excelled in asserting that it is helping in the fight against the climate crisis. A US study estimates the total climate pollution from LNG was 33% greater than that from coal over a 20-year period. This should have major ramifications for emissions policy. The claim that Australian gas exports are “clean”and needed to drive the transition to net zerogreenhouse gas emissions has become an article of faith for significant parts of the country’s industry, media and political classes – often repeated, only occasionally challenged.” https://lnkd.in/dRHD3_33

“As millions of US residents begin working to file insurance claims on their homes in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, many could be denied, particularly if their homes were damaged by flooding. “We’re in an environment of ever-increasing risk,” Kousky said. “It’s very hard for people to get their heads around that.” https://lnkd.in/dYWdWdNa

“More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decades.” Celeste Saulo, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization, told reporters on Monday that water cycles across the world were changing with increasing frequency. “As a result of rising temperatures, the hydrological cycle has accelerated. It has also become more erratic and unpredictable, and we are facing growing problems of either too much or too little water,” she said. https://lnkd.in/d7FhtnHV

“Extreme weather is becoming the new normal. This autumn there has been heavy rain in the Sahara and flash floods in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand. They follow spring’s torrential rain in Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Kenya, and heavy flooding in Germany. Lethal heatwaves hit south and south-east Asia and then the Mediterranean.” https://lnkd.in/dFjWKZ8G