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Last week the Bureau of Meteorology declared a negative Indian Ocean Dipole — a natural climate phenomenon set to bring wet weather. Let’s look at what you can expect, and the role of climate change. Nicky Wright, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Andréa S. Taschetto, Associate Professor, UNSW Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The first in-person climate meeting in 18 months sees tentative progress, but not enough.

Israel this weekend approved a plan to cut its mid-century greenhouse gas emissions by 85% below 2015 levels, but critics decried the strategy for missing key elements and for not going far enough.

Cities across the world are at risk of extreme rainfall overwhelming their streets

Higher natural gas prices are bringing coal-fired units online in the Northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme, while preliminary emissions data shows significant increases year-on-year over the second quarter as consumer behaviour returned to pre-pandemic levels.

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Overhaul of UK infrastructure needed to ensure it is not overwhelmed by impact of extreme weather

Flash flooding of the type seen in London this weekend will become a more common occurrence as the climate crisis worsens, scientists have warned, and the UK government, businesses and householders must do much more to protect against future harm.

Dr Jess Neumann, a hydrologist at the University of Reading, said: “Flooding from intense summer rainfall is going happen more frequently. No city, town or village is immune to flooding and we all need to take hard action right now if we are to prevent impacts from getting worse in the future.”

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Help to build a leading B2B SaaS company in the field of carbon accounting and climate action

Help to build a leading B2B SaaS company in the field of carbon accounting and climate action

Managing Consultant to the Energy and Climate team, to contribute and expand all aspects of our work and lead our service offerings in industrial decarbonisation.

This role is responsible for the development of analytical capability and generation of commercial insights for the Low Carbon Trading business with a focus on compliance and voluntary carbon markets over all time horizons.

More heatwaves even worse than those seen recently in north-west of America forecast in research

“Record-shattering” heatwaves, even worse than the one that recently hit north-west America, are set to become much more likely in future, according to research. The study is a stark new warning on the rapidly escalating risks the climate emergency poses to lives.

The shocking temperature extremes suffered in the Pacific north-west and in Australia 2019-2020 were “exactly what we are talking about”, said the scientists. But they said the world had yet to see anything close to the worst impacts possible, even under the global heating that had already happened.

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Emissions bourse AirCarbon Exchange (ACX) has integrated carbon offset ratings service BeZero onto its platform to provide credit buyers more confidence and transparency with regards to their purchases, the two firms announced Monday.

New research indicates that stained glass windows from Canterbury Cathedral may be among the oldest in the world.

EUAs staged a sharp rally in early Monday trading, wiping out the losses incurred in the second half of last week as optimism crept back into the market.