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🗣️ We’ve added new data to our PROVIDE Climate Risk Dashboard on glacier retreat, biodiversity loss and the impacts of heat stress on people in cities! The dashboard is an interactive online tool that allows you to compare climate impacts over different timeframes (2030, 2050, 2100), and in different scenarios i.e. what the world will look like if we implement current climate policies, vs 1.5°C-aligned policies? For cities, you can now see data on: -🔥population exposure to heatwaves -😓labour productivity (climate impacts of lost working hours per year from heat stress in cities) -🧊how much air conditioning demand will rise in a city - 🌡️changes in the daily Heat Wave Magnitude Index For the first time, we have material on adaptation, including deep dives on adaptation efforts in Nassau, Islamabad and Lisbon looking at their effectiveness at reducing heat stress locally. Explore the tool to learn how the climate crisis could affect you 🫵. https://lnkd.in/gHZNdB8r

Phoenix is sweltering in a heatwave. If we don’t take more action to limit the effects of global warming, by the year 2100 temperatures in Phoenix will get so high that 1297 hours every year (162 eight hour work days) will be considered unsafe for work outdoors.

Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the amount of new coal power in development has fallen dramatically from 1,496 GW to 578 GW. The majority of coal plants that were in development in 2015 have been cancelled. There are multiple reasons for the transformative change: 🔌 Clean energy filled the gap 🏭 Most of the biggest emitters announced goals to reach net-zero emissions 💰 Large public financiers of coal projects committed to stop lending New research from our consortium #SystemsChangeLab authored by Joel Jaeger explores the history of coal plants cancellations in China, India and Vietnam to help understand how the world can speed up the cancellation of the remaining coal project pipeline. Although growth in coal power is slowing down, coal power consumption was still at record highs in 2023, and needs to swiftly reverse course. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gtFGwNC6

"Adaptation options have limits", Fahad Saeed told the New York Times. At 1.5 degrees of warming, the risk of heat stroke on the hajj would increase five times compared to a world without warming, he said. At two degrees the risk doubles to ten times higher.

As the dust settles on the UK elections, our climate and energy analyst Dr Neil Grant looks at what the new government can do to send a positive signal that the UK can, and is, acting to address the climate crisis.

Our study on heat stress and the Hajj finds limiting warming to 1.5°C would halve the number of heat-related deaths during the pilgrimage to Mecca compared with 2°C of warming, writes climate scientist Fahad Saeed in our latest blog.

“The Hajj pilgrimage is a profound reminder to every Muslim of equality in the eyes of God. Yet, the disparity in the safety of pilgrims based on their financial means starkly contradicts this spirit of equality,” Fahad Saeed told Climate Home News.

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Extreme heat and humidity led to the tragic deaths of over 1,300 Hajj pilgrims this year. For the Hajj to remain physically possible during summer, we must adopt effective adaptation measures and move away from fossil fuels, writes Fahad Saeed in our latest blog.

🌍The Climate Risk Dashboard shows how climate change could affect different parts of the world! 🌏 Find out more in our webinar on using the tool and its new indicators on heat extremes, species loss, glacier loss and labour productivity. Register: https://lnkd.in/eeHDYZfn