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Amid the despair and doomism is a real climate emergency. We must act accordingly

How to respond to the avalanche of record-breaking extreme weather and temperatures terrorising the planet? For many scientists it is a moment of genuine despair, but also a time to resist climate doomism.

For British tourists still flying to Greece while it is on fire, and a few holdout news organisations, the answer seems to be to look away or deflect. We shouldn’t join them. Equally, as Michael Mann and Susan Joy Hassol have argued, there is no need to inflate the magnitude of what is happening. The reality is confronting enough.

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Report says nearly 200 cases filed around the world in past 12 months challenging governments and firms

Lawsuits challenging government and corporate inaction on the climate breakdown have become an important driver of change, according to a UN body.

A report by the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University says litigation is setting precedents for climate action all over the world, even beyond the jurisdictions in which cases are filed. But it warns of a growing legal backlash as cases are filed that could delay climate action and criminalise activists.

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Former Liberal MP wants the $3.8 billion undersea transmission project reviewed as a project of state significance, making it subject to a vote by both houses of state parliament.

The post MPs says Marinus Link a bigger deal than AFL stadium, demand vote in Parliament appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fortescue 's likely first big green hydrogen project will produce 12000 tonnes a year. It will need another 12,500 such projects to meet its 2030 targets, but insists it can still be done.

The post Fortescue still aiming for 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian bank has entered into a strategic alliance with a soil carbon project developer, financing a pilot project that will generate Australian Carbon Credit Units by pre paying for the first credits generated under the project, it announced Thursday.

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The historic royal tradition of "swan upping" reveals a sharp decline in swan young on the River Thames.

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Last year's record breaking heat, driven by climate change, gives a snapshot of the UK's future weather.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published the framework it will use to assess whether carbon credits meet its Core Carbon Principles integrity label, work that forges an uncertain path for many REDD projects and raises the bar on transparency.

California regulator ARB on Wednesday presented several scenarios for removing cap-and-trade permits in order to hit the state’s more ambitious emissions reduction goals, sending allowance prices skyward as traders expressed surprise at the magnitude of the potential supply cuts.

California offset issuance is catching up to 2022 levels, with nearly half of the credits over the most recent period providing direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), data from state regulator published Wednesday showed.

A German regional court has ruled that a retail firm’s climate neutrality claims lack sufficient credibility, the latest in a series of cases brought by an NGO alleging that carbon credits underpinning such voluntary corporate claims are unfit for purpose.

California electricity sector CO2 output held at 10-year lows through the first half of the year as renewable and hydroelectric power generation remained high, according to data published Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden’s administration announced a new Cabinet-level task force on Wednesday to help government agencies and stakeholders slash methane output, as it repeated previous steps the country will take to curb the potent greenhouse gas.

The REDD+ market needs root and branch reform and a non-market funding mechanism, warns a green activist group that finds there is very little evidence the sector in its current guise has caused meaningful reductions in deforestation and degradation, abated global emissions, or contributed to the development of forest peoples.

Officials are baffled by the remarkable behaviour of a large pod of pilot whales that grouped together in a heart shape before stranding themselves on a remote Western Australian beach on Tuesday evening.

By Wednesday morning, more than 50 whales lay dead on the shore, with volunteers, government workers and scientists fighting to save 46 more

• ‘We have never seen this’: scientists baffled by behaviour of pilot whales before WA mass stranding

• ‘What is the sea telling us?’: Māori tribes fearful over whale strandings

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British professor elected chair of UN’s expert panel, which warned in March that 1.5C threshold could be hit in 10 years

The British professor Jim Skea has been elected to head the UN’s climate expert panel, taking the helm of the organisation charged with distilling the best science to guide global policy in a crucial decade in human history.

Skea, who is a professor of sustainable energy at Imperial College London and who co-chaired the report on solutions in the panel’s latest round of publications, said in a statement he was “humbled” to have been elected chair at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Nairobi, Kenya.

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EU steel association Eurofer has lowered its 2023 consumption forecast for the 27-nation bloc, citing high energy prices, war-related disruptions, and sluggish demand prospects as resulting in a deeper-than-expected 3% recession for the ETS-covered sector, relative to 2022 levels.

The Australian’s latest adventure – two years traversing oceans and ice caps – aims to promote ‘carbon neutral exploring’

Geoff Wilson has spent much of his adult life exploring the planet. He has completed the only wind-assisted crossing of the Sahara and the fastest unsupported crossing of Greenland, south to north. He has stood atop Tanzania’s Mt Kilimanjaro with his father and spent a year sailing the world with his wife and three children. He holds the record for the longest solo unsupported polar journey in human history.

Wilson is the definition of a modern-day adventurer – a recipient of the Australian Geographic Society’s highest honour, the “lifetime of adventure” award. Having devoted decades to redefining what human beings are capable of, he is next seeking to prove that adventure doesn’t have to come at the expense of the planet.

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