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‘If we don’t change we’re f*cked’: Greta Thunberg warns humanity in new video

Climate activist shifts focus onto farming and veganism in latest campaign Greta Thunberg has warned humanity must shift to a plant-based diet quickly to prevent more ecological and health crises.

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Big oil companies are driven by profit – they won’t turn green by themselves.

Renewables are getting cheaper, but fossil fuels are still more lucrative. To reach net zero, we’ll need radical intervention.

Energy Climate

Tax soaring private jet use to fund green flying, says report.

Taxes of €325m a year should be used to fund zero-carbon aviation technology, report suggests.

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Climate crisis could trigger sewage surge in English rivers, MPs told.

Environmental body calls for investment in nature-based solutions to stem rise in discharge. There will be a rise in the scale of sewage discharge into rivers and waterways due to extreme weather events as a result of the climate crisis, MPs have been told.

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Will blockage and wake effects hinder the UK’s offshore wind target?

Investors and environmentalists were thrown in October 2019 when Orsted, the largest offshore wind farm developer, warned that its wind farms were producing less power than had been expected.

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Rapid heating of Indian Ocean worsening cyclones, say scientists.

Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate crisis increasing number of cyclones and intensity of storms, say experts. India’s cyclone season is being made more intense by the rapidly heating Indian Ocean, scientists have warned.

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Big Oil suffered three major blows this week: Is this the beginning of the end for fossil fuels?

Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil were all brought to task over mounting climate concerns. This is just the beginning, writes Harry Cockburn

Energy

Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report.

Nature’s financial value must be considered to avoid ‘irreversible’ degradation to biodiversity and land.

Climate

Miami’s chief heat officer calls for action on ‘silent killer’ in climate crisis

Jane Gilbert urges greater federal and state response to lethal threat posed by rising temperatures.

Climate

The Guardian view on climate change lawsuits: Big Oil is in the dock.

Fossil fuel firms are being held responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a good thing

Energy

Heatwave deaths set to soar as UK summers become hotter.

Met Office warning over impact of global heating prompts calls for action to protect elderly and vulnerable.

Climate

Johan Rockström: ‘We need bankers as well as activists… we have 10 years to cut emissions by half’

The eminent Earth scientist argues that we cannot just wait for the world order to change when it comes to tackling the climate crisis – we all have a duty to act now

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Poland defies EU court by refusing to close major brown coalmine.

Shutting Turów lignite mine would cause thousands of job losses, says development minister.

Energy

Three of Exxon’s refineries on US list of biggest polluters.

The company’s facility in Baton Rouge is the worst soot polluter in the country.

Energy

‘Mindboggling’ Arctic heatwave breaks records.

‘Profound heatwaves’ in region will be more common, warns meteorologist.

Environment

UN: Progress Urged as May-June Climate Change Conference Opens in Preparation for COP26.

UN Climate Change News, 31 May 2021 – Against the backdrop of a new international warning that the world is dangerously close to exceeding the Paris Agreement goal of limi

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Beeswax in Nok pots provides evidence of early West African honey use

The honeybee is the world’s most important pollinator of food crops and beekeeping play

Environment

Greece adds gloss as Lightsource BP cracks second new solar market in a week.

Joint venture co-owned by supermajor links with local player and takes big share of spoils in Greek government renewable energy auction

Energy

New IEA scenario finds fossil fuel expansion is needless and incompatible with 1.5°C

IEA’s modeling of a 1.5°C-aligned energy scenario shows there is no room for investment in oil, gas and coal in a net zero pathway. MAY 18, 2021 -The release of a 1.5°C-aligned energy scenario from the International Energy Agency (IEA) sends a strong signal ahead of COP

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Open Letter: Scientists, researchers and academics call for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

We, the undersigned, call on governments around the world to adopt and implement a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, as a matter of urgency, to protect the lives and livelihoods of present and future generat

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