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Rising ocean temperatures are having 'worrying' impacts on the deep ocean's ability to lock away our carbon emissions.

California, Quebec, and New Zealand on Tuesday signed a declaration promising closer collaboration on climate policy, with the WCI jurisdictions looking into greater alignment with the Pacific Island nation on their respective cap-and-trade programmes.

The true Australian Way would be to harness clean transport technology to lower costs, improve the air we breathe and create new jobs, all while supporting net zero emissions

The Morrison government on Tuesday announced its future fuels and vehicles strategy. Overall it’s a missed opportunity.

Electric vehicles should not be seen as an environmental issue. The transition to electric vehicles is a major economic opportunity for Australia – if we can get coherent and strategic national policy to capitalise on the benefits of this transformative change.

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Nuclear power is being promoted as a source of 'clean' energy, but is it safe?

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Climate crisis cannot be ended without the empowerment of women, politicians and campaigners tell summit

“The world as designed by men has destroyed many things,” Cop26 delegates have been told, as leaders and campaigners warned that the climate crisis could not be ended without the empowerment of women.

Women and girls around the world suffer disproportionately from the impacts of climate breakdown, as they are on average poorer, less educated and more dependent on subsistence farming. A UN report found 80% of those displaced by the climate emergency are women.

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Our climate analysis shows there’s a nearly 1C difference between countries’ 2030 commitments and their 2050 targets

• Bill Hare and Niklas Höhne are collaborators on the Climate Action Tracker project

Since the Paris agreement in 2015, countries around the world have promised ambitious action on climate change. Six years later, it is clear that they haven’t followed through on that promise. In the latest analysis carried out by Climate Action Tracker, published today, we find that the vast majority of states’ proposed 2030 actions and targets to reduce emissions are inconsistent with their longer-term net zero goals.

There is a nearly one degree gap between governments’ current policies and what would be required to actually achieve their stated 2050 targets.

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New analysis of pledges at COP26 suggest no government is doing enough to limit temperature rise.

The Glasgow climate conference faces a credibility, action, and commitment gap with the world heading for end of century warming of over 2C, even when taking into account the recent spate of net zero pledges by key economies, a report released on Tuesday said.

Research from world’s top climate analysis coalition contrasts sharply with last week’s optimism

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The world is on track for disastrous levels of global heating far in excess of the limits in the Paris climate agreement, despite a flurry of carbon-cutting pledges from governments at the UN Cop26 summit.

Temperature rises will top 2.4C by the end of this century, based on the short-term goals countries have set out, according to research published in Glasgow on Tuesday.

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EUAs advanced on Tuesday in the face of weaker energy prices, as the market reacted to a slight increase in flows of Russian natural gas to Europe.

Some of the best images from the global climate summit in Scotland on Monday 8 November

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Germany said on Tuesday that it will spend €10 million to buy carbon credits under the new Paris Agreement carbon market mechanism once Article 6.4 rules are agreed.

Renewable energy investors say Australia is still an "unacceptably risky market," despite federal government's net-zero pledge.

The post “Unacceptably risky”: Morrison’s climate creep leaves clean energy investors cold appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Marli Yontep Krikati became the first woman in her Amazon village to lead the forest guardians after the men declared the job too dangerous. The forest guardians are groups of indigenous Brazilians who patrol their territories to guard against illegal logging, farming and mining in the face of lax enforcement of Brazil's environmental laws under Jair Bolsonaro's government. Forest guardian leaders regularly receive death threats from powerful interest groups who encourage these unlawful activities. Now, as Brazil declares an end to deforestation by 2030 as part of the Cop26 summit, we follow the forest guardians on patrol to witness the severity of the deforestation challenge

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Failure to pass Build Back Better would disillusion a generation of voters, and potentially fracture the Democratic party

Deep into the night last Friday, long past the hour when most Americans had ceased paying attention, Congress passed the $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure bill otherwise known as the BIF. Its passage was heralded as a victory for President Biden, and the daily news chyrons dutifully marked a point in his column. But beyond the horserace myopia of the Beltway – and especially among young people – the news came tinged with the threat of disaster. Because for those of us interested in sustained human civilization on a habitable planet, the most relevant fact about the BIF is this: without consequent passage of the clean energy and social welfare bill known as Build Back Better, the BIF alone will exacerbate the climate crisis.

The reasons are manifold. The bill is riddled with exemptions and subsidies for corporations like ExxonMobil, whose lobbyists were caught bragging about their role in shaping the text. It invests in highways, bridges and airports that – in the absence of an aggressive drive to electrify cars and planes – will only add to emissions from the transportation sector. And the climate funding it does contain is focused not on drawing down emissions but on preparing Americans for worsening floods, fires and superstorms. If this is all we get, the message to young people is clear: Exxon will continue to be allowed to drown your homes, but not to worry, the government is investing in some life vests. Good luck!

Daniel Sherrell is the author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin Books) and a climate activist

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At Cop26 Sir Patrick Vallance has said he eats less meat and cycles but society needs to change more

Changes in behaviour are needed to tackle the climate emergency, the UK’s chief scientific adviser has said at the Cop26 summit.

Sir Patrick Vallance said behaviour change was starting to happen but needed to go further and said he cycled to work, ate less meat and had taken the train to the climate summit in Glasgow. He also said the climate crisis was a far bigger problem than coronavirus and would kill more people if immediate changes were not made.

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It suits governments to lecture us on our consumption, but they need to offer systemic change if we are to tackle the climate crisis

• Stephen Reicher is a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science

The protesters gathered in Glasgow for Cop26 are a diverse group – at the demonstration on Saturday I watched everybody file past – from international socialists to Scottish nationalists, healthcare workers to striking refuse workers, from indigenous activists at the very front to cycling enthusiasts at the very back.

But while the groups were all very different, I was struck by the commonality of their message: they all recognise that we cannot solve the climate crisis through the same means that created it. Whether that is the extractive industries destroying indigenous lands, or the carbon-hungry transport systems that crowd out cyclists.

Stephen Reicher is a member of the Sage subcommittee advising on behavioural science. He is a professor of psychology at the University of St Andrews, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an authority on crowd psychology

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Australia falls to dead last in global rankings of climate policy after its refusal to lift short term ambition at Glasgow.

The post Australia ranked dead last in world on climate policy after Glasgow Cop-out appeared first on RenewEconomy.