Climate

Growing demand for fossil fuel despite the scaling up of renewables could be a sticking point for the transition to lower carbon energy as global temperature increases reach 1.5C.

The findings of a team led by Hebrew University researchers reveal a relationship between ozone levels and atmospheric stability.

Inside Israeli Innovation with Maayan Hoffman: Season 2, Episode 12

In Dubai, major thoroughfares were reduced to a crawl, with some vehicles, including buses, nearly submerged underwater. Social media footage displayed dramatic scenes of malls and homes flooded.

Rozen and his team say scientists already have "all the pieces needed" to return to pre-Industrial Revolution temperatures.

This surge in emissions would effectively cancel out the environmental benefits gained from implementing wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies worldwide over the past five years, twice.

"The climate crisis did not disappear," Gideon Behar told The Jerusalem Post. "The world needs Israel: Israeli innovation, solutions, ideas, vision, and strategies."

Currently set targets are too low, and the watered-down Climate Change Bill of 2023 is a step in the right direction, but there is much more left to do.

Although the Tigris and Euphrates rivers have swelled in recent heavy rains, a dry climate is the norm in Iraq, and with Turkish and Iranian dams cutting off water flow.

The startups will use the money to further their efforts in addressing the pressing global climate crisis.