IAEA collaborating against climate change

The scale of climate change driven disasters is growing. This year, over a third of Pakistan was submerged in flooding from rainfall and glacier melt, displacing and impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Wildfires burn forests in Europe, droughts destroy crops in southern Africa and storms batter the Caribbean. Climate change affect us all, but the most vulnerable communities are shouldering the heaviest burden. While the global situation looks grim, hope lies in the ingenuity of human solutions to address a human-caused problem. Our climate crisis is driven by the burning of fossil fuels, releasing greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. While coal, oil and natural gas have been critical to societal and technological development over the past 200 years, the heat-trapping properties of their emissions are warming our planet and affecting our weather systems, our ocean and the health of our planet. Cutting our emissions and adapting to the increasingly challenging future conditions of our planet is now a priority for every country and region in the world. To this end, the IAEA has an important role to play. In this edition of the IAEA Bulletin, we delve into how nuclear science and technologies can help address climate change and meet our Member States' priorities. We show how the IAEA collaborates with governments and researchers around the world to bring climate solutions to fruition and bolster the capacity of communities to tackle the challenges they face.