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ANALYSIS: London Protocol amendment ratification takes effect in Australia, allowing for transboundary CCS
Plastic pollution is changing entire Earth system, scientists find
Pollution is affecting the climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, ocean acidification and human health, according to analysis
Plastic pollution is changing the processes of the entire Earth system, exacerbating climate change, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and the use of freshwater and land, according to scientific analysis.
Plastic must not be treated as a waste problem alone, the authors said, but as a product that poses harm to ecosystems and human health.
Continue reading...New Zealand can make deep carbon cuts at home for next NDC, but needs early start, commission finds
FEATURE: Traders, asset managers start to take action on EU ETS2 commercial risks
Nature-based solutions often overlook climate-biodiversity nexus, study says
EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra sails through Parliament confirmation hearing
From local pond to outback dunny, Australia’s biggest frog count is here – and researchers need your help
Annual FrogID week aims to collect thousands of recordings of country’s 250 frog species using downloadable smartphone app
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They moan, hum, whistle and click, and can be found almost everywhere, from the neighbourhood pond to the most remote outback dunny.
From 8 to 17 November, people across the country are encouraged to participate in FrogID week, Australia’s biggest frog count. The annual event, now in its seventh year, aims to collect thousands of recordings via an app, with the data providing a snapshot of how frogs are faring across the country.
Continue reading...Verra certifies first ARR carbon project in Europe
Major brands urge EU to stick to deforestation law’s original start date
ICVCM still assessing cookstove carbon methodologies for CCP status, REDD+ announcement imminent
Carbon market standard setter recommends crediting bodies connect with CAD Trust
Amazon deforestation falls by over 30%, records largest drop in 15 years
Trump voters want a revolution. It’s time for progressives to offer their own | George Monbiot
People have never been swayed by ‘rational debate’. Only a genuine change in the way we do politics can prevent the march of the right
We were losing slowly. Now we are losing quickly. Democracy, accountability, human rights, social justice – all were rolling backwards as money swarmed our politics. Above all, our life-support systems – the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, ice and snow – have been hammered and hammered, regardless of who is in power. Donald Trump might strike the killer blows, but he is not the cause of an ecocidal economic system. He is the embodiment of it.
Under Joe Biden, the US was missing its own climate goals, and those goals were insufficient to meet the global objective of limiting heating to 1.5C above preindustrial levels. That target in turn might not be tight enough to prevent a tipping of Earth systems. Already, at roughly 1.3C of heating, we see what looks alarmingly like climatic flickering: the ever wilder perturbations that tend to precede the collapse of a complex system.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
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