Louise Osborne

Chief climate reporter for Germany's international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, I am based in Berlin and have been working in the media for over a decade. My work has also been published in outlets including The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, and USA Today.

Deutsche Welle • 5th June 2024

Temperatures smash records 12 months in a row – DW News

Every month over the past year has seen temperatures break previous records, in what the director of the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) calls a "shocking" 12-month streak.

Temperatures in May broke records for the 12th month in a row, reaching 1.52 degrees Celsius (2.74 F) above preindustrial levels, according to C3S data released on Wednesday. that marks the 11th month that temperatures have climbed beyond 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels.

"While this sequence

dw.com • 30th November 2023

What impact does the climate movement still have? – DW – 11/30/2023

In Dubai, world leaders will meet to discuss climate action as part of the COP28 Climate Summit. Civil society and activists will also be there to add to the pressure. But controversies and radical protest tactics are pulling at the global climate movement's strength.

30th November 2023

New climate disaster fund offers hope to poorer countries

A loss and damage fund aimed at offering financial assistance to climate-vulnerable nations has been officially launched on the first day of the crucial UN climate talks in Dubai.

dw.com • 24th May 2023

Industry experts meet in Leipzig to push green transport – DW – 05/24/2023

Greener alternatives are topping the agenda as top transportation experts meet in the Germany city of Leipzig. Ministers, business leaders and researchers from around the world are attending the International Transport Forum over the next three days.

dw.com • 8th December 2023

COP 28 and climate reparations for the Global South – DW – 12/08/2023

During the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, the COP27, industrialized nations pledged to help developing countries pay compensation for loss and damage caused by global warming. But since then talks have stalled. Can a deal be reached at COP28?

DW News • 6th December 2023

COP28: What difference can the 'loss and damage fund' really make? | DW News

Industrialized countries have pledged around half a billion US dollars to help the world's most vulnerable nations cope with the impacts of climate change.

An agreement on the new 'loss and damage fund' on the first day of the COP28 climate conference was met with a standing ovation. The money will help pay for damage caused by slow onset disasters, like rising sea levels, and extreme weather events, like heavy rain, flooding, droughts and wildfires. But many say the money pledged is not enough.

In Pakistan for example, families are still struggling after deadly floods – made worse by climate change – swept through Sindh province in mid 2022.

We talk to Mustafa Talpur. He is Asia Regional head of Advocacy and Campaigns for Oxfam international and joins us from Islamabad.

And for more, DW’s Climate Correspondent Louise Osborne is joining us in the studio.

#cop28 #climatechange #naturaldisaster

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dw.com • 5th June 2023

Climate change talks begin in Germany – DW

Negotiators from around the world are converging on Bonn, Germany, for a climate change conference. One goal of the talks is to hash out the details for a new fund to pay for loss and damage experienced by poorer nations due to climate change.

dw.com • 24th May 2023

Industry experts meet in Leipzig to push green transport – DW – 05/24/2023

Greener alternatives are topping the agenda as top transportation experts meet in the Germany city of Leipzig. Ministers, business leaders and researchers from around the world are attending the International Transport Forum over the next three days.

DW Planet A • 28th April 2023

How losing biodiversity could be killing us

Antibiotics, pain killers and even treatments for cancer – many are derived from nature. But we are killing off the species that could provide the next nature-based cure. How bad is biodiversity loss for our health?

Credits:
Reporter: Louise Osborne
Camera: Henning Goll
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Biodiversity #Health

Read more:
Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of IPBES: https://zenodo.org/record/6417333#.ZEgk0y0RpTY

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species:
https://www.iucnredlist.org

From drug discovery to coronaviruses: why restoring natural habitats is good for human health: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2329.abstract

The biodiversity crisis is a business crisis:
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/biodiversity-loss-business-implications-responses

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Discovering penicillin
02:05 Disappearing biodiversity
03:57 Healthy planet, healthy humans
06:51 Saving biodiversity
08:56 Conclusion

dw.com • 21st April 2023

A look at the heat wave in Asia – DW – 04/21/2023

A heat wave is sweeping across Asia, worsened by climate change. Rising temperatures are also being linked to other extreme weather events, such as the flooding that devastated large parts of Pakistan earlier this year. But despite the damage to people's lives and the economy, critics have said governments are not doing enough.

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