Sunday 3 January 2021

2020 has been a bleak year in the climate crisis. So here’s the good news

2020 has been a bleak year in the climate crisis. So here’s the good news

The Covid pandemic put paid to that, and the year has closed out with a piling up of dire climate news. 2020 is on track to be the hottest year on record; an unprecedented fire season in the western US led to the country’s first ever “gigafire”, and Amazon fires were the worst in a decade. The Atlantic hurricane season was the most active on record. Devastating typhoons swamped the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia while the Sahel and Greater Horn regions of Africa experienced severe droughts.

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