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COP27: 'We'd never seen this much water' - Pakistan flood survivors
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Green groups team up with industrial ‘front-runners’ to seek EU ETS and CBAM reform
EU must tighten its climate spending reporting to avoid greenwashing, say lawmakers
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Cop27: Sunak says it is ‘morally right’ for UK to honour climate pledges
Prime minister tells summit Britain will honour commitments but makes no mention of reparations
Rishi Sunak has said it is “morally right” that Britain honours its climate change commitments in his speech at Cop27, but he made no mention of paying reparations after Boris Johnson said the country cannot afford to do so.
The prime minister made a very short appearance on the world stage on Monday, after making a very public U-turn on his attendance in Egypt – the same reversal that may have left him living in Johnson’s shadow, as he was forced to speak hours after his rival.
Continue reading...The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s Cop27 trip: placing the planet on a road to hell | Editorial
Britain had said its aim was to ‘keep 1.5C alive’. The prime minister seems to want it dead
Rishi Sunak is not interested in the climate emergency – and everyone knows it. Forced to make a flying visit to Cop27, Mr Sunak’s intransigence made him an outcast at the UN summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. He did sit down with France’s Emmanuel Macron, and the Italian far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, to discuss a subject – “illegal migration” – that Mr Sunak obviously cares about. But most world leaders were not going to make time for a prime minister who had blocked Britain’s new monarch from attending the summit and only came because he feared being upstaged by Boris Johnson. When Mr Sunak did turn up, it was with his predecessor’s plan and slogans. Embarrassingly, Mr Johnson did take centre stage at Cop27 – from the sidelines.
The prime minister’s track record reveals a politician who governs in the Tories’ narrow political interest rather than the national one. Slashing fuel and air duties as chancellor just days before the last Cop summit – hosted by the UK – showed his true colours. Pledges to curtail onshore wind and solar development during the Conservative leadership campaign signalled that personal ambition was more important than climate goals. In Cop26, countries signed up to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. Britain had wanted to “keep 1.5C alive”. Mr Sunak seems to want it dead.
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COP27: Ukraine a reason to act fast on climate change - Rishi Sunak
US environmental campaigners add another former veteran climate negotiator to its roster
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Opening days of the Cop27 climate summit – in pictures
Images from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt where world leaders are gathering to discuss the climate crisis
Continue reading...COP27: UK to launch “gold standard” framework for corporate climate disclosure plan
UPDATE – COP27: New demand pledges for forest carbon credits amongst incremental progress to halt deforestation
First Islamic financing facility set up for voluntary carbon market
World faces ‘terminal’ loss of Arctic sea ice during summers, report warns
The dramatic vanishing of polar ice sheets will cause catastrophic sea level rise that will threaten cities, according to a major new study
The climate crisis has pushed the planet’s stores of ice to a widespread collapse that was “unthinkable just a decade ago”, with Arctic sea ice certain to vanish in summers and ruinous sea level rise from melting glaciers now already in motion, a major new report has warned.
Even if planet-heating emissions are radically cut, the world’s vast ice sheets at the poles will continue to melt away for hundreds of years, causing up to three metres of sea level rise that will imperil coastal cities, the report states. The “terminal” loss of sea ice from the Arctic during summers could arrive within a decade and now cannot be avoided, it adds.
Continue reading...Toad licking: just say no, National Parks Service tells Americans seeking a high
Secretions of Sonoran desert toad have long had hallucinogenic reputation but authorities want you to keep your tongue away
The US National Park Service is warning people to stop licking one of the largest toads in America, due to a toxin it secretes from its glands that can create a hallucinogenic experience.
The Sonoran desert toad, which emits a quick, “weak low-pitched toot”, can make someone sick if they touch it or lick it, NPS said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
Continue reading...'We have the collective capacity to transform,' says Mia Mottley at Cop27 – video
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, told world leaders gathered at the climate conference in Egypt: 'We know what it is to remove slavery from our civilisation, to find a vaccine within two years for a pandemic, to put a man on the moon', but that when it came to the climate crisis, we needed to understand why we were not moving any further. Speaking at Cop27, she said 'the simple political' needed 'to make a definable difference ... seems still not to be capable of being produced'
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A pub with no gas: Lithgow residents rely on each other after flooding ruptures gas pipeline
‘It seemed like the community was just left to do your best with what you have’, says one local
Residents of Lithgow are using kettles to prepare water for bathing and restaurants with bottled gas are cooking warm meals for locals, as the regional New South Wales town waits up to a month for a broken gas pipeline to be repaired.
Locals in towns including Lithgow, Bathurst, Wallerawang and Oberon woke up on Thursday to find their homes had been cut off from natural gas – the result of a leak in the pipeline between Young and Lithgow. More than 20,000 people are affected.
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