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Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · World water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the UN has said in a plea to countries to mend conflicts over water resources. Stress on water resources, which is being exacerbated by the climate crisis, as well as overuse and pollution of the world’s freshwater systems, is a large source of conflict, according to the latest UN world water development report. The impacts of sharing water, and the possibilities of harnessing cooperation over water resources into wider peace ... Read more ... |
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Here's why there is no nuclear option for Australia to reach net zero - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years The battle lines have been drawn over Australia’s energy future. With the nation signed up to net zero emissions by 2050, the Albanese Labor government is committed to renewables. The Coalition wants nuclear. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has a vision for meeting Australia’s energy needs that would include large-scale nuclear power plants and small modular reactors, a technology that is not yet proven, but which the shadow minister for energy, Ted O’Brien, says could be “up and running within a 10-year period.” While nuclear ... Read more ... |
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Fossil fuel firms could be tried in US for homicide over climate-related deaths, experts say - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Public Citizen, a non-profit group, proposed the idea last year to prosecute companies for millions of deaths due to climate crisis Each year, extreme temperatures take 5 million lives, while 400,000 people die from climate-related hunger and disease and scores perish in floods and wildfires. The radical idea, first proposed last year by consumer advocacy non-profit Public Citizen, may sound far-fetched, but it’s gaining interest from experts and public officials. “We’ve been really excited to see the curiosity, interest and support these ideas have garnered from members of the legal community, including from both former and current federal, state and local ... Read more ... |
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The maddening, nightmare quest to decarbonize my home - Guardian  (Mar 21) |
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Mar 21 · Here’s what happened when two climate reporters tried to ditch natural gas My wife and I live in a green, two-story colonial at the end of a cul-de-sac in Burlington, Vermont. Each spring, the front of our home is lined with lilacs, crocuses, and peonies. The backyard is thick with towering black locust trees. We occasionally spot a fox from our office windows, or toddlers from the neighborhood daycare trundling through the woods. It’s an alarmingly idyllic home, with one exception: it runs on natural gas. The boiler, which heats our house and our water, burns it. So do the stove and the dryer and even the fireplace in the living room. About 60% of American ... Read more ... |
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World's top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas - Guardian  (Mar 20) |
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Mar 20 · Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should 'abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”. The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce ... Read more ... |
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‘Bewildering' to omit meat-eating reduction from UN climate plan - Guardian  (Mar 18) |
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Mar 18 · Academic experts also criticise UN Food and Agriculture Organization for dismissing alternative proteins The omission of meat-eating reduction from proposals in a UN roadmap to tackle the climate crisis and end hunger is “bewildering”, according to academic experts. The group also criticised the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s report for “dismissing” the potential of alternative proteins, such as plant-based meat, to reduce the impact of livestock on the environment. In a commentary published in the journal Nature Food, experts said the FAO’s failure to include a methodology on how the 120 actions it did support were chosen, or a list of authors, was ... Read more ... |
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Scientists divided over whether record heat is acceleration of climate crisis - Guardian  (Mar 16) |
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Mar 16 · Some believe global anomalies are in line with predictions but others are more concerned by speed of change Record temperatures in 2024 on land and at sea have prompted scientists to question whether these anomalies are in line with predicted global heating patterns or if they represent a concerning acceleration of climate breakdown. Heat above the oceans remains persistently, freakishly high, despite a weakening of El Niño, which has been one of the major drivers of record global temperatures over the past year. Scientists are divided about the extraordinary temperatures of marine air. Some stress that current trends are within climate model projections of how the ... Read more ... |
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‘We don't know where the money is going': The ‘carbon cowboys' making millions from credit schemes - Guardian  (Mar 15) |
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Mar 15 · Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated by straw-thatched mud houses, the Miombo woodlands on the edge of the enormous artificial lake are mostly home to smallholder farmers. The gravel roads are full of potholes; cars are infrequent, as are medical facilities and internet connections. Data on the region is patchy, but Hurungwe district, that covers a number of the villages ... Read more ... |
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Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say - Guardian  (Mar 14) |
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Mar 14 · Impact on ecosystems must be predicted before technology is used, US atmospheric science agency chief says Scientists must work urgently on predicting the effects of climate geoengineering, the chief of the US atmospheric science agency has said, as the technology is likely to be needed, at least in part. Richard Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said the government-backed body was estimating the effects of some of the likely techniques for geoengineering, including those involving the oceans. “My own belief is that we need to get a better understanding of what the impacts are,” he said. “I suspect some aspects of ... Read more ... |
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Failure to insulate UK homes costing thousands of lives a year, says report - Guardian  (Mar 13) |
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Mar 13 · Analysis finds 58 people have died due to cold homes every winter day since 2013 Tory pledge to 'cut the green crap’ The government’s failure to insulate the UK’s cold and leaky homes is costing thousands of lives a year, according to analysis. The report from Greenpeace reveals 58 people have died due to cold homes every day on average during the winter since David Cameron’s Conservative government decided to “cut the green crap” in 2013 – drastically slashing support for home insulation. Paul Morozzo, Greenpeace UK’s fuel poverty campaigner, said: “Thousands of people are literally freezing to death in their own homes during winter. And not only have successive ... Read more ... |
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