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This is climate breakdown: a new series exploring the real impacts on people

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:00:44 +0000

How do you capture the effects of the climate crisis on people right now? We have collected testimonies from around the world

EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution

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Workers face being targets in what could be Environmental Protection Agency’s biggest upheaval since its founding

After several years of recovery after the tumult of Donald Trump’s last administration, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now bracing itself for even deeper cuts to staff numbers and to work protecting Americans from pollution and the climate crisis as Trump prepares to return to the White House.

US air force backpedals claim it is not responsible for PFAS cleanup in Arizona

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:00:04 +0000

Air force had earlier claimed supreme court’s overturning of Chevron doctrine had exempted it from EPA’s order

The US air force has backpedaled on a claim that the supreme court’s recent reversal of the Chevron doctrine shields it against regulators’ orders to clean drinking water the military polluted in Tucson, Arizona.

Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:00:42 +0000

Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

International biodiversity offsetting “doesn’t work”, according to experts aiming to create a nature market that avoids the pitfalls of carbon offsets.

Developing world needs private finance for green transition, says Cop president

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:00:42 +0000

UN’s top climate official warns ‘no country is immune’ from climate disaster as conference begins in Azerbaijan

Businesses in the private sector must stump up cash for the developing world to invest in a low-carbon economy or face the consequences of climate breakdown, the president of the UN climate summit has said.

At Cop29, we must treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as Covid – history shows it can be done | Mukhtar Babayev

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:00:40 +0000

This emergency will cost trillions of dollars, and is beyond the reach of developing nations. Private investors have to step up

Mukhtar Babayev is president of the Cop29 UN climate change conference

To avert climate catastrophe, the world needs more climate finance. At Cop29, the UN climate summit in Baku that begins today, agreeing a new climate finance goal is the top priority of Azerbaijan’s Cop presidency.

Cop29 live updates: global north owes $5tn a year climate debt to global south, say campaigners

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:23:49 +0000

Rich nations need to fund poorer nations to avoid burning fossil fuels and cope with severe weather events fuelled by global heating, says campaign group

UN climate chief Simon Stiell gave a moving speech at the Cop29 opening plenary on Monday, writes Dharna Noor, fossil fuels and climate reporter for Guardian US, who is reporting from Baku.

A ‘Cop of peace’? How can authoritarian, human rights-trashing Azerbaijan possibly host that? | Greta Thunberg

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:00:39 +0000

The ‘theme’ chosen for Cop29 must be some kind of dark joke. This summit, like those before it, is a mere act of greenwashing

Monday briefing: What to expect as Cop29 starts in the shadow of Trump’s victory

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:49:52 +0000

In today’s newsletter: As delegates gather for the world’s biggest climate conference, many are asking what the re-election of the man who thinks global heating is ‘a hoax’ will mean for the planet

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Australian-led project to grow plants on the moon scheduled for takeoff in 2025

admin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:40:02 +0000

Producing something ‘living, fresh and green’ for astronauts to eat on the moon and Mars among ultimate aims but first test is whether plants can survive

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An Australian-led project to grow plants on the moon has secured a ride on a lunar mission scheduled for takeoff in 2025.