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Flash floods will be more common as climate crisis worsens, say scientists
Overhaul of UK infrastructure needed to ensure it is not overwhelmed by impact of extreme weather
Flash flooding of the type seen in London this weekend will become a more common occurrence as the climate crisis worsens, scientists have warned, and the UK government, businesses and householders must do much more to protect against future harm.
Dr Jess Neumann, a hydrologist at the University of Reading, said: “Flooding from intense summer rainfall is going happen more frequently. No city, town or village is immune to flooding and we all need to take hard action right now if we are to prevent impacts from getting worse in the future.”
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‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study
More heatwaves even worse than those seen recently in north-west of America forecast in research
“Record-shattering” heatwaves, even worse than the one that recently hit north-west America, are set to become much more likely in future, according to research. The study is a stark new warning on the rapidly escalating risks the climate emergency poses to lives.
The shocking temperature extremes suffered in the Pacific north-west and in Australia 2019-2020 were “exactly what we are talking about”, said the scientists. But they said the world had yet to see anything close to the worst impacts possible, even under the global heating that had already happened.
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China to release national roadmap for achieving carbon neutral target
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Australia’s biggest wind farm gets to first base, but no word on full commissioning
Owners of Stockyard Hill confirm the project has passed its first hold point, but gives no indication when full operation might be achieved.
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Damages dispute between contractor and owners of NSW solar farm at standstill
A dispute between one of Australia's major contractors and the owners of one of the biggest solar farms in NSW is at a standstill.
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Green, empty promises? The truth behind corporate climate pledges
Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges
For climate campaigners, 26 May seemed like the start of a long-awaited reckoning for oil and gas companies.
Over a single 24-hour period, a Dutch court ordered Shell to dramatically cut emissions, shareholders voted to force Chevron to reduce emissions from the products it sells, and a tiny activist investment firm secured three positions on ExxonMobil’s 12-member board for candidates committed to climate action.
Continue reading...Green light: a new series on the critical role of companies in the climate crisis
A new Guardian series explores companies’ accountability for the climate emergency and their efforts to tackle it
Every day the world fails to adequately address the climate emergency, the timeframe needed to drastically cut emissions shrinks and the likelihood of increasingly devastating climate impacts grows. No solution to this crisis will be possible without a wholesale change in the way corporations do business.
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Continue reading...Paul Italiano steps down as head of transmission group Transgrid
Transgrid CEO Paul Italiano announces sudden resignation from the transmission company.
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Xi Jinping, Bolsonaro, Putin and Morrison: The four leaders resisting global climate action
As countries prepare to return to international negotiations on climate, Australia will find itself lumped in the club of fossil fuelled rogues.
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Old style tech to give major boost to Australia’s shift to wind and solar
New spinning machines about to join South Australia's grid will allow the maximum output of wind and solar farms to be dramatically lifted.
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China is backing more than half of world’s remaining coal power pipelines
China is looking isolated as the last enabler of global coal-fired power projects.
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