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UN secretary general: humanity faces climate 'suicide' without US rejoining Paris agreement
Joining China and other big polluters, Biden’s pledge of ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 brings the Paris agreement goals ‘within reach’
This article originally appeared in the Nation and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global consortium of news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. The Guardian is the lead partner in CCN.
“The way we are moving is a suicide,” United Nations secretary general António Guterres said in an interview on Monday, and humanity’s survival will be “impossible” without the United States rejoining the Paris agreement and achieving “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050, as the incoming Biden administration has pledged.
Continue reading...Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary general
António Guterres lists human-inflicted wounds on natural world in stark message
Humanity is facing a new war, unprecedented in history, the secretary general of the UN has warned, which is in danger of destroying our future before we have fully understood the risk.
The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to shut down whole countries for months at a time, while wildfires, hurricanes and powerful storms have scarred the globe.
Continue reading...World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report
Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases
The world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.
The researchers say production of coal, oil and gas must fall by 6% a year until 2030 to keep global heating under the 1.5C target agreed in the Paris accord and avoid “severe climate disruption”. But nations are planning production increases of 2% a year and G20 countries are giving 50% more coronavirus recovery funding to fossil fuels than to clean energy.
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Green hydrogen or green-wash? Industry-led scheme to guarantee origin of supply
Industry bodies seek scheme to guarantee provenance of green hydrogen produced in Australia and prevent "green-washing" in the booming new industry.
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Great Barrier Reef outlook 'critical' as climate change called number one threat to world heritage
The outlook for Australian sites including the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests has deteriorated, report says
The outlook for five Australian world heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests, has deteriorated, according to a global report that finds climate change is now the number one threat to the planet’s natural world heritage.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the official advisory body on nature to the Unesco world heritage committee, has found in its world heritage outlook that climate change threatens a third of the world’s natural heritage sites. The outlook has been published every three years since 2014.
Continue reading...Climate change: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record
China’s Hubei to auction 3 mln CO2 permits
A68a: World's biggest iceberg is fraying at the edges
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Wanted: UK site for prototype nuclear fusion power plant
Communities are being asked to bid to host the plant, which a state-backed project plans to build by 2040
Communities in the UK are being asked to bid to host a prototype nuclear fusion power plant, which a government-backed programme plans to build by 2040.
The site does not need to be near existing nuclear power stations but will need 100 hectares of land and a plentiful water supply. Ministers say the project would bring thousands of skilled jobs and be part of its planned “green industrial revolution” to tackle the climate crisis.
Continue reading...“I spent more than that, and I’m not BP”: Cannon-Brookes challenges oil major to do more
Cannon-Brookes issues challenge to BP to invest more in clean energy, saying he was personally investing more than the oil and gas giant.
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Australian researchers find 81-year-old snapper, oldest known tropical reef fish
The midnight snapper caught at Rowley Shoals off Western Australia is 20 years older than the previous record holder
When it was born, the second world war was several years away, none of the Beatles were alive and there were about five billion fewer people above the waves than today.
An unnamed 81-year-old midnight snapper, caught by the Australian Institute of Marine Science in 2016, has been revealed as the oldest tropical reef fish known to science.
Continue reading...Humans waging 'suicidal war' on nature - UN chief Antonio Guterres
Global sustainable fishing initiative agreed by 14 countries
Governments to reduce pollution in oceans and end subsidies that contribute to overfishing
Governments responsible for 40% of the world’s coastlines have pledged to end overfishing, restore dwindling fish populations and stop the flow of plastic pollution into the seas in the next 10 years.
The leaders of the 14 countries set out a series of commitments on Wednesday that mark the world’s biggest ocean sustainability initiative, in the absence of a fully fledged UN treaty on marine life.
Continue reading...Coal and gas sectors contract as rest of economy bounces back from Covid-19
Australia's economy is bouncing back, but not thanks to any 'gas-led recovery', with coal and gas sectors contracting in latest quarterly GDP figures.
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NSW green lights 65MW Tamworth solar farm and big battery
NSW government delivers early Christmas present to Barnaby Joyce, with plans for a new solar farm and big battery in his New England electorate approved for construction.
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