13.4 degrees in Northern Norway: “It’s extreme”
A heat record has been broken in Norway – at Sandnessjøen Airport near Luleå it was 13.4 degrees on Saturday, reports Norwegian NRK.
The previous February record was 11.8 degrees.
– It’s a very special situation. Usually, heat records are broken by a few tenths, not by more than one and a half degrees. It’s extreme, says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen to NRK.
This record is just one of several that have been broken in Norway in recent days.
Isaksen believes that climate change is a possible explanation for the record – average temperatures have been rising for the past 30 to 40 years, he says.
Threats to biodiversity
Money is the key issue for the UN on biodiversity
Money is in focus when the UN Conference on Biological Diversity, COP16, resumes in Rome on Tuesday, writes TT. In November, the meeting, which then took place in Colombia, had to be interrupted before an agreement could be reached.
The big question is whether a separate fund should be established within the framework of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to finance the work. Several developing countries in particular are pushing for this.
If only the issue of financing can be resolved, the other issues will also fall into place, believes Ankin Ljungman, delegate for WWF International on site in Rome. But if the countries do not succeed, the entire implementation of the global framework for biodiversity risks losing momentum.
A heat record has been broken in Norway – at Sandnessjøen Airport near Luleå it was 13.4 degrees on Saturday, reports Norwegian NRK.
The previous February record was 11.8 degrees.
– It’s a very special situation. Usually, heat records are broken by a few tenths, not by more than one and a half degrees. It’s extreme, says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen to NRK.
This record is just one of several that have been broken in Norway in recent days.
Isaksen believes that climate change is a possible explanation for the record – average temperatures have been rising for the past 30 to 40 years, he says.
Threats to biodiversity
Money is the key issue for the UN on biodiversity
Money is in focus when the UN Conference on Biological Diversity, COP16, resumes in Rome on Tuesday, writes TT. In November, the meeting, which then took place in Colombia, had to be interrupted before an agreement could be reached.
The big question is whether a separate fund should be established within the framework of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to finance the work. Several developing countries in particular are pushing for this.
If only the issue of financing can be resolved, the other issues will also fall into place, believes Ankin Ljungman, delegate for WWF International on site in Rome. But if the countries do not succeed, the entire implementation of the global framework for biodiversity risks losing momentum.
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