Johan van den Berg Independent Agricultural Meteorologist (M.Sc Agric, Agricultural Meteorology, UFS)

A new report says the Arctic is ‘ground zero’ for cascading climate impacts across the planet, and is now experiencing several unprecedented events, with profound and complex impacts.

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, climate change—a crisis that can cause even greater destruction—looms.

Measuring emissions is sometimes like measuring calories in a diet — there is a touch of art along with the science. And, for companies, it is most difficult to be purely scientific over indirect, or “Scope 3”, emissions — the greenhouse gases emitted all along their supply chains and in the use of their products.

Climate change happens when a location’s usual weather is altered.