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- 1Atlantic current collapse risk absent from national climate plans●Key Atlantic currents could collapse this century, but the risk is missing from almost all national climate plans # Clim
New reporting warns that key Atlantic Ocean currents, including the system often called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, could collapse at some point this century, with severe consequences for weather and sea levels. Despite the scale of the threat, the risk is largely absent from almost all national climate adaptation and mitigation plans, prompting calls for governments to take the possibility more seriously.
- 2Lancet Report Warns Climate Change Health Impacts Accelerating▼Lancet: Health Impacts of Climate Change Are Accelerating
A new Lancet report says the health impacts of climate change are accelerating, with rising heat, extreme weather and disease threats increasingly affecting populations worldwide. The findings underscore warnings from health experts that climate change is now a direct and growing public health emergency, prompting calls for faster mitigation and stronger health-system preparedness.
- 3EU tells member states to prepare for 3C of warming●EU tells countries to make plans to cope with 3C of global warming
The European Union has instructed member countries to draw up contingency plans for coping with 3 degrees Celsius of global warming, a level well above the Paris Agreement's targets. The directive signals growing official concern that current mitigation efforts will fall short, prompting debate about whether the bloc is pragmatically adapting or tacitly giving up on limiting warming.