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With a target to halve its huge carbon footprint, the race is on to find new technologies to green the world’s shipping fleet
Watch out for the return of the sailing ship.
After a commitment last month to cut greenhouse gas emissions from shipping by at least 50% by 2050, the race is on to find new technologies that can green the 50,000-strong global shipping fleet. Wind power is one of the options being discussed.
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Continue reading...Donor nations’ 2020 target of $100bn annual fund for adapting economies falls short by near 50% says Oxfam
Finance for poor countries to help them reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and deal with climate change is lagging behind the promises of rich countries, an Oxfam report finds.
While taxpayer-funded finance has increased, and the private sector has stepped up with some initiatives, the amount raised could still fall short of the goal of providing $100bn a year to the developing world by 2020.
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Continue reading...Sydneysiders urged to join party in former PM’s seat to ‘shift the politics’ and speak up for the environment
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Tony Abbott’s political future could be under threat from a group of activists who have been organising environmentally conscious voters to join Liberal party branches on Sydney’s north shore – a move that could unseat the former prime minister.
Billing themselves as “the counterweight” to the pro-coal power Monash Forum, the North Shore Environmental Stewards have held at least two recruitment functions at which attendees were urged to tap into their networks of environmentally conscious people to join the Liberal party branches in Abbott’s seat of Warringah and on the lower north shore.
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Continue reading...Citizens consider fleeing Nawabshah in fear of what summer might bring
A Pakistani city has set a global record temperature for the month of April, with the mercury rising to more than 50C on Monday, prompting fears that people might leave to escape even higher temperatures when summer sets in.
The southern city of Nawabshah recorded a high of 50.2C on Monday.
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Continue reading...The ‘river of grass’ wilderness and coastal communities are in peril, with the buffer coastal ecosystems on a ‘death march’ inland
Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found.
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Continue reading...French president and Australia’s PM talk up rules-based order in region – and praise China’s rise
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France and Australia can be the heart of a new Indo-Pacific axis, promoting peace, stability and a rules-based order, Emmanuel Macron said in Sydney on Wednesday.
But the French president was at pains to stress that France’s continued emphasis on its Pacific presence was not one antagonistic to China, saying he welcomed Beijing’s economic and geopolitical rise.
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Continue reading...Mark Butler says ‘we’re not going to get deep decarbonisation’ without end to toxic politics
Australia will not achieve its emissions reductions targets until it ends the “culture war” on climate policy, Labor frontbencher Mark Butler has said.
Speaking at the Carbon Market Institute emissions reduction conference in Melbourne on Wednesday, Butler said that Australia was a case study in how “toxic politics” could stymie efforts to decarbonise the economy.
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Continue reading...German scientists propose using basalt and dunite to soak up carbon from the atmosphere
They might seem solid, but rocks gradually erode. Wind, rain, ice and snow all contribute to weathering; nibbling away at mountains, sea cliffs, limestone pavements and even solid granite tors.
Freshly exposed rock surfaces react with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to make bicarbonate ions, which flow down to the ocean (hitching a ride on rivulets of rainwater) and are used by ocean critters to make limestone. This natural process helps to keep the Earth cool by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it up in rocks underground for a few million years.
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Continue reading...Political editor Andrew Probyn’s statement violated impartiality standards, watchdog rules
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A statement by the ABC’s political editor in a TV news report that Tony Abbott was “the most destructive politician of his generation” breached the ABC code for impartiality, the broadcasting watchdog has ruled.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Andrew Probyn’s piece to camera on a 7pm news bulletin last October was “problematic” and “incongruent” with the rest of his news report.
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Continue reading...Environmental campaigner and founder of 350.org says the financial sector has picked up on the future of energy much quicker than politicians • Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning
After almost three decades of environmental activism, Bill McKibben has become the Earth’s investment broker.
“There’s no way at this point to solve [climate change] one person at a time,” McKibben told Guardian Australia.
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