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Cost of fighting flooding is soaking up English councils’ cash, ministers warned
District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stations
The costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.
Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding.
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Voluntary carbon removals standard consults on mineralisation storage modules
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Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight | Temperature Check
WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s party
If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.
That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.
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Poland launches €5 bln plan to fund offshore wind farms
Banks failing to meet their own green commitments, finds analysis
Gas development will drive emissions rise in Australia’s Top End under all scenarios, says govt report
Brussels approves Dutch plan to pay livestock farmers to close down
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BeZero evaluates first DAC carbon project, assigns highest-ever rating
Trump’s Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study
Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs
The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds.
Should Trump retake the White House and pass the energy and environmental policies in the controversial Project 2025 document, the US’s planet-heating emissions will “significantly increase” by 2.7bn tonnes above the current trajectory by 2030, an amount comparable to the entire annual emissions of India, according to the report.
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