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'Have a heart': 10-year-old Ghanaian climate activist receives standing ovation at Cop27 – video
Nakeeyat Dramani, a 10-year-old Ghanaian climate activist, appealed to delegates during a Cop27 session in Sharm el-Sheikh to 'have a heart'. Nakeeyat spoke 'on behalf of young people' who feared for their future, after seeing the impact of the climate crisis every day, in the form of air pollution, flooding and droughts.
She joined Ghana's delegation to add her voice to the pressing consequences of the climate emergency in her country. At the end of her speech, Nakeeyat recited a poem, telling leaders to work harder to halt the climate crisis
Continue reading...‘Shameful’ UN silencing Indigenous voices, say banned Cop27 activists
Campaigners who interrupted US president’s speech had passes revoked after they put ‘lives in danger’
Four US activists who had their Cop27 accreditation revoked after briefly interrupting the US president, Joe Biden, in Sharm el-Sheikh have described the UN as “shameful” and say it has silenced Indigenous voices.
Big Wind, Jacob Johns, Jamie Wefald, and Angela Zhong missed the second week of the climate conference after being suspended for standing up with a “People vs Fossil Fuels” banner during Biden’s speech last Friday. The Indigenous activists, Wind and Johns, gave a war cry to announce themselves and draw attention to the fossil fuels crisis before security officials confiscated the banner. The group then sat down and Biden continued.
Continue reading...Time is running out. We must call out the vested interests propelling the climate crisis | Dr Gabrielle Kuiper
It is not enough to professionally communicate the science of climate change. This is not a matter of rationality.
The role of science communication is to counter wilful ignorance. I don’t mean the deliberate placing of blinkers over the eyes or rose-coloured glasses on the nose. I mean the facts that are inconsistent with the pleasant stories we tell about ourselves, our species, our future. I mean the delusions we live by because they are enjoyable, help keep us sane and motivated, and those cultivated by vested interests to hoodwink us into putting their greed ahead of the public good.
Science develops inconvenient facts through the best form of knowledge production we have. It’s not flawless; it’s messy and human.
Continue reading...COP27: Fresh hope for climate talks after climate damage offer
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This warm autumn is a warning: Britain’s seasons are changing for good | Sophie Pavelle
A mild November may be talked of as a ‘freak weather event’, but the climate crisis will make the abnormal normal
My fingers should be numb. My breath should rise in clouds. I want leaves to crunch and snap beneath my feet. I want to have to pull my coat tightly around me, to ram a hat low over my ears. I expect to be locking horns with the thermostat. But instead I find myself overheating. Is this the new November?
Following soaring temperatures across Britain throughout 2022 and a distinct lack of rain, we knew better than to expect our weather to resume its familiar winter course. An African plume of hot air whipping off the tropics, the Azores and Cape Verde has lifted London’s temperatures 8C above average. Porthmadog, north Wales, had a high of 21.2C on Remembrance Sunday. And we’re still pursuing a limit on global temperature rise of 1.5C.
Continue reading...‘We want people to laugh, gasp and hope’: Ireland hosts climate science circus
Circus Science by the Sea takes place this weekend in Westport and Achill island, coastal areas facing climate challenges
Cop27 may have been dismissed as a circus in some quarters, but a group of scientists and performers is staging a real circus in Ireland to inspire people to help tackle the climate crisis.
The eclectic mix of engineers, conservation experts, clowns, jugglers and acrobats will perform this weekend in what is billed as Europe’s first circus science and environment festival.
Continue reading...'Landmark vote' gives boost to threatened sharks
Countries vote to regulate shark fin trade in landmark decision at wildlife summit
Overfishing and a lack of regulation is pushing sharks to extinction – now a global body is hoping to better protect them
Countries at the world’s biggest wildlife summit have voted for the first time to regulate the trade that kills millions of sharks every year to feed the vast appetite for shark fin soup.
In what marine conservationists have hailed as a landmark decision, parties at the 186-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or Cites, voted to limit or regulate the commercial trade in 54 shark species of the requiem family, including tiger, bull and blue sharks which are the most targeted for the fin trade. It will require countries to ensure legality and sustainability prior to authorising exports of these species.
Continue reading...COP27: Roundup for Day 12 – Nov. 18
Cop27: EU agrees to finance fund for poorer countries – live
The European Union has backed a loss and damage fund, one of the key demands of developing countries at the climate talks
The low-lying Pacific island of Tuvalu has been reaction to the EU’s proposal on loss and damage. Their finance minister, Seve Paeniu, called for support for phasing out all fossil fuels, language so far missing from the draft Sharm el-Sheikh agreement.
He described the EU position on loss and damage as a “breakthrough”.
Continue reading...CN Markets: China ETS sees improved liquidity, but sentiment remains tepid
Australia awards A$29 mln in grants to boost soil carbon measurement technologies
Cop27: EU agrees to loss and damage fund to help poor countries amid climate disasters
Change in stance puts spotlight on US and China, which have both objected to fund
A breakthrough looked possible in the deadlocked global climate talks on Friday as the European Union made a dramatic intervention to agree to key developing world demands on financial help for poor countries.
In the early hours of Friday at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt, the European Commission vice-president, Frans Timmermans, launched a proposal on behalf of the EU that would see it agree to establishing a loss and damage fund.
Continue reading...The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including migrating crabs, a rescued leopard and a monkey carrying a puppy
Continue reading...Decarbonising ammonia’s current uses key to realising its broader energy transition role, report says
The teenage miners of Jharia: growing up in India’s coalfields – in pictures
Young girls illegally work the mines in north-east India, risking disease and death, while trying to better their lives at school
- Words by Elle Kurancid, photography by Walaa Alshaer
Japanese steel firm plans national roll-out of blue carbon projects after first issuance
Black-naped pheasant-pigeon sighted in PNG for first time in 140 years
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