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Bird flu ‘an urgent warning to move away from factory farming’
Experts claim deadly spillovers of disease between livestock and wildlife are increasing with the growth in intensive methods
Catastrophic declines in the number of birds and other wildlife are likely if countries do not act urgently to change the way animals are farmed, wildlife health scientists have warned.
The unprecedented die-off of seabirds from highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) being witnessed in breeding colonies across Europe, North America and Africa has been traced back to a commercial goose farm in southern China where a relatively mild bird disease mutated into a killer in 1996.
After spilling into wild bird populations in 2007, HPAI has spread around the world, killing millions of birds and showing no sign of stopping.
The truth about getting to net zero, according to the numbers – video
After nearly a decade of stalling and delaying on climate action, Australia has a new government that promises new policies and has set new emissions reduction targets – 43% by 2030. But the key question now is whether or not that will be enough. Guardian Australia has been tracking progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and documenting the consequences of the global heating that has already occurred
Continue reading...Nearly half of world’s coal firms still seeking to expand -database
Why is Africa bearing the brunt of the climate crisis? – video explainer
'People are saying the climate crisis is real, only because it has knocked on the door of the global north,' says Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist.
Africa accounts for 15% of the world’s population but 4% of greenhouse emissions – compared with 23% by China and 19% by the US.
More than 18m people in the Horn of Africa risk starvation after years of drought, but the countries suffering the worst effects of climate change did not cause this global crisis.
Here Nakate speaks about this climate injustice, ahead of next month's Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, when countries from across the global south will call for billions of dollars of financing for adaptation, the transition to green energy, and climate reparations.
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Cop15: ‘World leaders might have to invite themselves’ to summit
In its role as president, China has sent invitations only to ministers and NGO heads, raising fears it is downplaying the crucial talks
China has not invited world leaders to a major nature summit being held this year, raising concerns Beijing is downplaying the crucial Cop15 meeting in order not to embarrass Xi Jinping.
In December, governments will finalise a UN agreement to halt the destruction of the natural world at a summit organised by China but hosted in Canada. Because of Beijing’s zero-Covid policy and after several delays, Cop15 was moved to Montreal, the seat of the UN convention on biological diversity. It was meant to take place in Kunming, Yunnan province, in 2020.
Continue reading...A lot of “hurdles” to overcome before carbon pricing can spread across Africa -experts
Just Stop Oil activists arrested after glueing themselves to road in Whitehall
Met police confirm arrest of 25 climate campaigners for blocking road in central London
Twenty-five supporters of Just Stop Oil have been arrested after blocking traffic in central London, on the sixth consecutive day of protest by the group.
At about midday on Thursday, two groups of protesters with the climate activist campaign walked into the road and stopped traffic at the roundabout by Trafalgar Square.
Continue reading...An EV charging station every 12km? Fossil fuel subsidies could pay for that
A new report asks what we could get for the $11.6 billion Australia spent on fossil fuel subsidies last year. The low emissions options are endless.
The post An EV charging station every 12km? Fossil fuel subsidies could pay for that appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Norway to set floor price for its EU ETS compensation scheme
Heating and eating: can cost of living and climate protesters join forces? - video
There are strong synergies between the solutions needed to the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis, but are the campaigns talking to each other? We spent time with people most affected by austerity, strikers on the picket lines and disruptive climate campaigners to find out if their messages are aligning or if there is still work to do
Maritime, energy players combine to develop “onboard” carbon capture tech to reduce shipping emissions
Video reveals devastation from scallop dredging on ‘protected’ Scottish seabed
Campaigners say marine protected area set up to save UK’s only fan mussels exists merely as a ‘paper park’
New underwater footage taken by environmental campaigners in Scotland has revealed severe damage to marine life and habitats wreaked by scallop dredgers in “marine protected areas” (MPAs).
The Scottish government designated the seabed around the islands of Canna and Rum, on Scotland’s west coast, as the Small Isles MPA in 2014, to conserve Britain’s only colony of rare fan mussels and other features. The islands host a large breeding colony of black guillemots.
Continue reading...‘I have a voice’: African activists struggle to attend UN climate talks in Egypt
Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27
African climate activists from some of the countries most affected by global heating say they are struggling to get access to the UN climate talks in Egypt in November.
Cop27, which has been termed “the African Cop”, threatens to take place without African activists advocating for communities devastated by drought, floods and fossil fuel projects in the negotiations when life-or-death decisions about climate finance will be made.
Continue reading...Western Australia EPA could rule out new projects with high Scope 3 emissions, Gorgon report says
Here’s a plan for green King Charles: sell the family silver and use the cash to save the planet | John Vidal
He’s spent his life sniping from the sidelines. Now he has the power to make radical environmental reforms to the monarchy
So King Charles won’t be going to COP 23, by order of Liz Truss https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/01/king-charles-abandons-plans-to-attend-cop27-following-liz-trusss-advice; an inauspicious start for a monarch with pretensions to remain an influencer and be known as the first “green” king.
But he should take heart: Truss may not be long for No10, and Charles may look at recent events and conclude that no-one listens to her anyway. If so, there are plenty of opportunities now for him to turn the archaic House of Windsor into an institution fit for an age of climate breakdown, poverty and deep inequalities.
John Vidal is a former Guardian environment editor
Continue reading...People of colour have been shut out of the climate debate. Social justice is the key to the green agenda | Julian Agyeman
Environmental issues in low-income areas have long been ignored by activists who fail to grasp the importance of equity
“Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.”
From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those affecting the borough’s lower-income residents. There were very few jobs such as this in local government, and I was the only Black person employed in one.
Julian Agyeman is a professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University, and editor-in-chief of Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
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Continue reading...Climate policies to push global wind capacity past 2TW over coming decade
A spate of positive climate policies around the globe is expected to drive big growth in the wind energy sector, according to analysts Wood Mackenzie.
The post Climate policies to push global wind capacity past 2TW over coming decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.
NZ proposes to give local councils greater power over carbon forestry
New oil and gas at odds with green goals - report
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