European governments must prepare to deal with new flows of migrants who will leave their countries because of climate change in the search for drinking water and food, a high-ranking United Nations official, on a visit to Lithuania, said in an interview with BNS.
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The extreme temperature swings that Lithuanians have experienced this April are as a result of climate change, said Lithuanian climatologist Donatas Valiukas.
Lithuania's economy is growing without raising greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting that the country's development is environmentally sustainable, says climatologist Arūnas Bukantis.
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will sign the Paris climate change agreement today.
Last year, Lithuania received almost €28.5 million from carbon credits sold abroad through its special Climate Change program – the most it has ever received through this program. 40 percent of the money received from carbon credits is spent on renovation, and another 40 percent is spent on the use ...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Paris on Monday to attend the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21). The meeting, to be attended by almost 150 state and government leaders from around the globe, is expected to arrive at agreements on greenhouse gas emissions a...
Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius has said everyone should care about the challenges of climate change. The prime minister signed a declaration on climate change together with other state leaders and members of the Party of European Socialists on Wednesday in Paris.
After several hours of discussions, leaders of the European Union (EU) finally reached agreement on the climate and energy policy framework for 2030, informs LETA.
Lithuania lacks proper energy strategy which would encompass climate change and objectives in the area of energy, says Giedrė Kaminskaitė-Salters, chief advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė.