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Cop26: mothers from across globe demand action on air pollution
Representatives of almost 500 parent groups tell Alok Sharma their children’s health depends on cleaning up toxic air
It may have been his toughest meeting yet. A delegation of mothers from all over the world, all of whom had seen their own children suffer health damage from air pollution, met the Cop26 president, Alok Sharma, on Friday morning to demand an end to fossil fuel financing.
The delegation was led by Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lost her nine-year-old daughter, Ella, to severe asthma that was officially linked to air pollution in London. She was joined by Dr Maria Neira, the director of public health at the World Health Organization (WHO), and other mothers from India, Brazil, South Africa, Poland and Nigeria, to present a letter to Sharma.
Continue reading...A strange poem for strange times: a response to Cop26 | Simon Armitage
I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, says the poet laureate
I wanted to react to Cop26 – so many of my friends and colleagues have been emboldened by the conversation it has generated. And strange times sometimes lead to strange poems.
I was trying to chart the peculiar dream-like state we seem to be in, where the rules and natural laws of the old world feel to be in flux, one of those dreams which are full of danger, but not completely beyond the control of the person who sleeps.
Continue reading...‘Like a clown’: what other countries thought of Boris Johnson at Cop26
PM could not resist wheeling out the usual jokes and antics at crucial summit, but the laughs never came
It was one of the defining images from Cop26.
Seated next to Boris Johnson on Monday and wearing a mask was 95-year-old David Attenborough. The prime minister, however, was maskless. At one point, Johnson seemed to have nodded off.
Continue reading...Euro Markets: Midday Update
Digested week: The Atlantic can’t protect me from Boris Johnson shame | Emma Brockes
As the PM slumps around Glasgow, here in New York the maths and mayors are only getting weirder
It has been a feature o f Covid that, along with all the other bad things ushered in by the pandemic, it has opened up whole new categories of people to hate. Thought the mum you exchanged casual greetings with every morning at school drop-off was more or less sane? Turns out she believes the health authorities are lying to us and the vaccine programme is tantamount to murder. Or the friend who, before vaccines were available, was still throwing indoor parties? Or the cabinet minister and the testing contract? The world is full of lunatics, benign in good times, dangerous in bad, available, almost two years into this rolling disaster, for unprecedented levels of resentment.
Continue reading...Kenya’s water crisis leaves villagers at risk of violence and disease – in pictures
As rivers run dry, the desperate search for water has led to a rise in domestic abuse, conflict and illness
All photos by Cyril Zannettacci/Agence Vu for Action Against Hunger
Continue reading...Australia Market Roundup: ACCU bull run won’t let up, as ERAC defends major offset method
'We're in this together': why I'm protesting at Cop26 – video
As world leaders and their negotiators attempt to thrash out a plan to avert climate catastrophe at the Cop26 summit, thousands of activists have gathered in Glasgow to protest against inaction and false promises.
From challenging the concept of net zero to highlighting the difficulties faced by Indigenous communities, protesters explain why they have taken to the streets and what they hope to achieve
- Why the world is getting hotter and how you can help – video explainer
- Indigenous activists on tackling the climate crisis – video
The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a baby orangutan, wandering rhino and competing pelicans
Continue reading...Exchange ICE makes first foray into voluntary carbon market
How the climate crisis is forcing Americans to relocate – video
In the last few years, hurricanes and flooding have devastated parts of the American south. Smoke-billowing wildfires have torn through millions of acres of the west coast. In the south-west, people are suffering through record droughts. Sections of the US are becoming increasingly inhospitable. Adam Gabbatt investigates how these dramatic shifts in the climate are forcing Americans to relocate at alarming rates
Cop26: Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030 – day five live
Follow events at the climate summit in Glasgow for day five
- ‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit
- Cop26 pledges could limit warming to 1.8C, says energy agency boss
It is, among other things, oceans day here in Glasgow.
As the “blue finance” roundtable kicks off this morning, looking at how to invest in ocean resilience to tackle climate risk, the Guardian’s Seascape project – for which I am the editor, hello! – has published Part 2 of a deep dive (sorry) into so-called “blue carbon”.
Continue reading...The climate crisis is just another form of global oppression by the rich world | George Monbiot
At Cop26 the wealthy nations cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice
The story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.
Competition for control of other people’s lands led to repeated wars between the colonising nations. New doctrines – racial categorisation, ethnic superiority and a moral duty to “rescue” other people from their “barbarism” and “depravity” – were developed to justify the violence. These doctrines led, in turn, to genocide.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...COP26: Emissions of rich put climate goals at risk - study
COP26 Roundup: Day 5 – Nov. 5
CN Markets: Trading volumes rise in China’s carbon market as compliance deadline nears, but prices stable
‘Luxury carbon consumption’ of top 1% threatens 1.5C global heating limit
Richest 1% will account for 16% of total emissions by 2030, while poorest 50% will release one tonne of CO2 a year
The carbon dioxide emissions of the richest 1% of humanity are on track to be 30 times greater than what is compatible with keeping global heating below 1.5C, new research warns, as scientists urge governments to “constrain luxury carbon consumption” of private jets, megayachts and space travel.
In keeping with the Paris climate goals, every person on Earth needs to reduce their CO2 emissions to an average of 2.3 tonnes by 2030, about half the average of today.
Continue reading...British firm to unveil technology for zero-carbon emission flights at Cop26
As yet unnamed company claims it could enable ‘clean’ flights running on liquid ammonia by 2030
A British company being launched at the Cop26 summit on Friday will unveil technology it claims could enable zero-carbon emission flights running on liquid ammonia by 2030.
It aims to build lightweight reactors to “crack” the chemical to produce hydrogen to burn as fuel, a design it says could allow existing planes to be modified to store liquid ammonia rather than paraffin.
Continue reading...Energy Insiders Transcript: Mike Cannon-Brookes on the green energy future
Mike Cannon-Brookes discusses government policy failure, Sun Cable, the cost of capital, and whether the 1.5°C target can be met.
The post Energy Insiders Transcript: Mike Cannon-Brookes on the green energy future appeared first on RenewEconomy.
For the first time in my life I saw an actual aurora with my own eyeballs | First Dog on the Moon
The aurora alarms were going off as we grabbed our head torches and headed SOUTH!
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