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UK govt proposes controversial bioenergy subsidies to keep plants open in transition to carbon capture
Women added to Cop29 climate summit committee after backlash
Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’
The president of Azerbaijan has added 11 women to the previously all-male organising committee for the Cop29 global climate summit, which the country will host in December.
The move follows a backlash after the Guardian reported the initial 28-man composition of the committee, which was called “regressive” by the She Changes Climate campaign group. “Climate change affects the whole world, not half of it,” the group said.
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Major asset manager releases “milestone” TNFD-aligned disclosure
CN Markets: CEA trading volume slides to 7-mth low, CCER liquidity healthier
‘It’s about living on what you have’: Four shepherds seek sustainable life in Spain
The four inhabitants of Morillo de Sampietro, an abandoned village in the Pyrenees, live a simple life
The tiny hamlet of Morillo de Sampietro stands high above a steep, wooded valley in the Spanish Pyrenees. Below is the glint of the Rio Yesa, beyond are the snow-capped peaks of Monte Perdido.
In 1860 Morillo had 76 inhabitants; by 1995 only two remained. Now there are four.
Continue reading...Cop28 deal will fail unless rich countries quit fossil fuels, says climate negotiator
G77 president Pedro Pedroso warns deal risks failing if polluters like UK, US and Canada don’t rethink plans to expand oil and gas
The credibility of the Cop28 agreement to “transition away” from fossil fuels rides on the world’s biggest historical polluters like the US, UK and Canada rethinking current plans to expand oil and gas production, according to the climate negotiator representing 135 developing countries.
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Pedro Pedroso, the outgoing president of the G77 plus China bloc of developing countries, warned that the landmark deal made at last year’s climate talks in Dubai risked failing.
Continue reading...US-based joint venture boosting open-source software for TNFD disclosures
German biochar carbon removals firm enters UK market through partnership
Major Japanese industrial firm to embark on carbon capture pilot
Social enterprise offers young people paid opportunity to protect UK oceans
Sea Ranger Service will offer the chance to carry out maintenance work and climate research on sailing vessels
A social enterprise has launched offering people between the ages of 18 and 29 the chance to protect the seas around the UK while getting paid.
The Sea Ranger Service (SRS) will offer young people the chance to sail out to sea and undertake vital work to conserve Britain’s oceans.
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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
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What do angry farmers in Nevada and Germany have in common? They’re being exploited by the far right | George Monbiot
Populists are taking advantage of agrarian protests sparked by genuine crises – and it all feels horribly familiar
When environmental activists calling for less pollution sit in the streets, across Europe they are now abused and attacked, arrested and handed extreme and draconian sentences. When farmers contesting pollution rules block entire city centres and major roads and spray manure on government buildings, the authorities sit and wait for them to go home. Few, if any, are prosecuted, and those who are receive small penalties. The promise of equality before the law has seldom looked emptier.
The hard right and far right demonise people who challenge the status quo, and valorise those who seek to restore it. Governments and police forces across the rich world have proved all too responsive to their demands.
Continue reading...Nobel laureates call on EU to relax rules on genetic modification
Open letter says lawmakers must ‘reject fearmongering’ and allow scientists to develop crops that can withstand ‘climate emergency’
The EU must “reject the darkness of anti-science fearmongering” before a key vote on gene editing, 34 Nobel prize winners have said.
In an open letter shared with the Guardian and other European newspapers, the laureates demanded that lawmakers relax strict rules on genetic modification to embrace new techniques that target specific genes and edit their code. The technology could make crops more resistant to disease and more likely to survive extreme weather events that are growing more violent as the planet heats up.
Continue reading...‘The pigs have disappeared’: swine fever threatens food source for millions as disease hits wild herds
Scientists call for urgent intervention, as bearded pig populations are devastated by the deadly virus on islands such as Borneo
Populations of wild pigs are crashing due to the spread of African swine fever (ASF), threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on them for food, researchers warn.
With a fatality rate of almost 100%, ASF has swept across Asia, Europe and Africa, devastating domestic and wild pig populations over the past 10 to 20 years. The impacts are especially significant in Borneo, in south-east Asia, where bearded pig numbers have declined by between 90% and 100% since it arrived on the island in 2021, researchers said.
Continue reading...Germany’s last solar module factory threatens to close, as China’s grip distorts market
Germany's last solar module plant – and the largest in Europe – is preparing to close, as the glut of China panels makes business unsustainable.
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A record 63 billion-dollars of weather disasters hit Earth in 2023
Seven nations had their most expensive weather disaster on record in the last 12 months, and the continent of Africa suffered two of its deadliest.
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