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Watering Wednesday campaign aims to get UK streets to look after local trees
Charity Trees for Streets says dry weather has put pressure on saplings, which need about 50 litres a week
As young street trees struggle and wilt in the summer heat, people are being urged to step into action with their watering cans to help.
Hundreds of people are already looking after their local trees as part of the Watering Wednesday campaign launched by Trees for Streets, and some residents have set up rotas and allocated particular saplings to specific families.
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Climate crisis linked to rising domestic violence in south Asia, study finds
Increase of 1C in average annual temperature connected to more than 6% rise in physical and sexual domestic violence
As deadly heatwaves sweep through cities in India, China, the US and Europe amid the climate crisis, new research has found that rising temperatures are associated with a substantial rise in domestic violence against women.
A study published in JAMA Psychiatry on Wednesday found a 1C increase in average annual temperature was connected to a rise of more than 6.3% in incidents of physical and sexual domestic violence across three south Asian countries.
Continue reading...‘Whatever it takes’: the activists who risk prison to shatter Australia’s climate complacency
Protesters are taking increasingly extreme action to highlight ecological collapse – and new, more draconian laws are failing to stop them
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Brad Homewood has two jobs. His paid gig requires the 50-year-old to drive a mini-mix concrete truck around suburban Melbourne. His volunteer work has resulted in him being arrested 13 times for taking part in protests meant to disrupt an economic system driving a climate and ecological emergency.
Last week Homewood glued himself to a nine-metre metal pole erected in the middle of a road at the entrance of the Port of Melbourne’s Appleton Dock. Traffic was stopped for two hours before emergency service workers could separate him from the pole and remove him from the site.
Continue reading...AECOM releases biodiversity assessment metric for Singapore, eyes SE Asia roll-out
CEFC and super fund pitch in for Blackrock’s massive Waratah “shock absorber” battery
CEFC and NGC Super Fund back BlackRock's investment in the $1 billion Waratah Super Battery, one of the biggest grid "shock absorbers" in the world.
The post CEFC and super fund pitch in for Blackrock’s massive Waratah “shock absorber” battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.
So what if fossil fuel lobbyists have to declare themselves at Cop28? That won’t curb their power| Amy Westervelt
Oil and gas companies don’t just have a seat at the Cop table: they are in charge of the table
Earlier this month, the UN announced it will require fossil fuel lobbyists to identify themselves as such when registering for the Cop28 climate summit. The move was applauded by campaigners and politicians alike, but it’s a shockingly small first step towards matching the boldness demanded by UN secretary general, António Guterres, when it comes to rooting out fossil fuel influence. In a speech earlier this month, Guterres called for the phase out of fossil fuels themselves, and said oil majors must “cease and desist influence peddling and legal threats designed to knee-cap progress.”
The UN’s move to transparently label lobbyists at Cop28 looks a lot like damage control after recent embarrassing revelations, such as there having been more oil lobbyists than any one nation’s delegation at Cop26 in Glasgow. But to actually rid Cop of fossil fuel influence, the UN has to go far beyond finally unmasking industry lobbyists; it needs to hold up a mirror to its own enabling behaviour over the years, then reverse all of it.
Continue reading...Call for Thames Water inquiry after children fell ill after swimming in river
Campaigners condemn pollution and shortages as government and regulator discuss possible bailout
Thames Water customers have called for an urgent inquiry into the company’s finances after children became seriously unwell from swimming in the river and homes were left without water during a drought.
Campaigners have expressed astonishment that the company may be bailed out by the taxpayer after it failed to invest appropriately in infrastructure to stop sewage spills and leaks.
Continue reading...Japanese companies working on tropical peatland management AI model to cut emissions
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AstraZeneca to splurge $400 mln on mass tree-planting exercise
Water firms push for bills in England to rise by up to 40%, say reports
Plans drawn up to pay for cost of dealing with sewage crisis and climate emergency
Water companies are reportedly pushing for bills in England to rise by up to 40% under plans being drawn up to pay for the cost of dealing with the sewage crisis and the climate emergency.
The increases are due to be announced next year and could drive annual bills up from an average of £450 to £680 in parts of the country by the end of the decade, according to a Times report citing consultation documents.
Continue reading...India to launch Green Credit Programme to meet broad environmental goals
China completes preliminary review of CCER system, though relaunch timeline remains unclear
Singapore signs Article 6 agreement with Dominican Republic
Line Hydrogen eyes production within months as Tasmania project gets green light
Development approval secured for George Town green hydrogen plant in Tasmania, with plans to start producing by the end of the year.
The post Line Hydrogen eyes production within months as Tasmania project gets green light appeared first on RenewEconomy.
As global heating threatens Pacific island life, their Indigenous languages will die too | Anastasia Riehl
As the climate crisis forces migration, so native tongues wither, too. But it’s not too late to intervene
Rising sea levels already pose an existential threat to the populations of Tuvalu, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and other low-lying Pacific atolls. In these places, however, it is not just homes, crops and community cohesiveness that are at risk: it is Tuvaluan, Kiribati and Marshallese – the languages native to these islands.
The impact of the climate crisis on languages may be new, but the relationship between language and climate is old. As humans populated the Earth, climate and geography were enormous factors in where they settled and flourished. The equatorial region, with its consistent temperatures, predictable rainfall and abundant agricultural opportunities, was particularly agreeable.
Continue reading...AstraZeneca pledges to plant and maintain 200m trees globally by 2030
Drugmaker’s $4oom offsetting scheme aims to combat climate change and biodiversity loss caused by deforestation
The boss of Britain’s biggest drugmaker, Pascal Soriot, has warned that the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are damaging the planet and human health, as it announced a $400m (£310m) plan to plant 200m trees by 2030.
The offsetting scheme is one of the biggest tree-planting programmes globally. In 2020, AstraZeneca pledged to plant and maintain more than 50m trees by the end of 2025, with 10.5m trees of 300 different species planted so far across Australia (in collaboration with Aboriginal people), Indonesia, Ghana, the UK, the US and France.
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