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Greenhouse gas emissions from the way humans consume food could add nearly 1 degree of warming to the Earth's climate by 2100, according to a new study.Continuing the dietary patterns of today will push the planet past the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit of warming sought under the Paris climate agreement to avoid the worst effects of climate change, according to the study published Monday in Nature Climate Change, and will approach the agreement's limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Shareholder activists have welcomed a breakthrough after an influential proxy adviser backed a climate resolution for TotalEnergies.Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended that investors vote for the resolution, which urges the French oil giant to do more to cut emissions from its value chain, at the annual general meeting on May 26.

Climate Armageddon is just around the corner, the United Nations said Monday in its starkest warning yet about environmental destruction - but it's not too late to stave it off, the body added."Humanity is on thin ice - and that ice is melting fast," said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in remarks at the launch of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

2023 is forecast to be a hotter year than 2022, according to the UK's Met Office weather service.Why? Well,an unusual three-year-long weather pattern that typically has a cooling effect on our planet should finally come to an end next year.On top of that, global average temperatures are expected to rise as greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb.

A member of the Dutch activist group Milieudefensie demonstrates in London, England, during the Shell's annual general meeting on May 23, 2023.DANIEL LEAL / AFP via Getty Images About 100 climate campaigners on Tuesday demanded the attention of executives and shareholders at Shell's annual general meeting, refusing to be silenced as they spent several hours disrupting the profits-focused gathering to condemn the oil company for its continued planet-heating fossil fuel extraction.

At least 130 people died amid severe flooding and landslides in Rwanda in early May, while thousands were displaced as entire villages were engulfed.Beyond the 5000 homes, 17 roads and 26 bridges destroyed, a whole hospital was lost amid torrential rain that followed an extended drought.The small, mountainous, landlocked African nation often called the "land of a thousand hills" is one of the most densely-populated countries in the region, note researchers.

Data published Wednesday by a respected environmental think tank indicates Germany likely missed its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions again last year, despite a big effort by the new government to expand the renewable energy use.Agora Energiewende think tank said in a report that the country released the equivalent of 761 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the main planet-warming gas, in 2022.

Each of the last eight years, if projections for 2022 hold, will have been hotter than any year prior to 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report on Sunday as the COP27 UN Climate Summit opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt."As COP27 gets underway, our planet is sending a distress signal," said UN chief Antonio Guterres, describing the report as "a chronicle of climate chaos."

Sultan al-Jaber, the CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., talks during the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb 14, 2023.Kamran Jebreili/AP A top oil company CEO who will lead international climate talks later this year told energy industry power players on Monday that the world must cut emissions 7% each year and eliminate all releases of the greenhouse gas methane strong comments from an oil executive.