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Days of heavy rain and flooding along Australia’s east coast have caused widespread damage and triggered the evacuation of thousands of residents – from western Sydney to the mid-north coast.
With the weather finally easing and the recovery set to begin, reporter Graham Readfearn explores what may have caused the disaster – and what that might tell us about life in a climate crisis future
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Continue reading...Exclusive: Dr Jürgen Zattler, an official at Germany’s ministry for economic cooperation and development, says the policy is a tool to fight global warming
A senior German government official has dismissed claims from Australian government ministers that carbon border charges could become a new form of protectionism.
Dr Jürgen Zattler, a director general at the German federal ministry for economic cooperation and development, told Guardian Australia such a policy would be a tool to fight global warming, not a tool to protect domestic industry.
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Continue reading...Musicians for Peace and Disarmament chair Tony Lamb and patrons including Peggy Seeger, Ralph McTell and Sir Mark Elder call for a reversal of the proposal to raise the cap on Britain’s nuclear warheads
Serhii Plokhy’s article (Boris Johnson is playing a dangerous nuclear game, 19 March) explains why this could not be a worse time for the government to raise the cap on nuclear warheads. Musicians for Peace and Disarmament (MPD) has been campaigning for a nuclear-free world since 1983. Although progress towards this end has been painfully slow, little did we expect such a sudden and profound setback as the recent announcement.
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Continue reading...Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning are joined for a football and climate crisis special edition by David Goldblatt – author of The Age of Football – the global game in the 21st century, Ollie Hayes of the Sustainababble podcast, and Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity and chairman of Forest Green Rovers, recognised by Fifa and the UN as the world’s greenest club
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In this special edition we look at the impact football has on the climate emergency, and the impact global heating will have on football, with grounds including Chelsea, Southampton, West Ham and Norwich all forecasted to be partially or totally flooded by 2050.
Continue reading...To prevent catastrophe, governments must transform our resilience to climate breakdown, AI and engineered pandemics
It is profoundly difficult to grapple with risks whose stakes may include the global collapse of civilisation, or even the extinction of humanity. The pandemic has shattered our illusions of safety and reminded us that despite all the progress made in science and technology, we remain vulnerable to catastrophes that can overturn our entire way of life. These are live possibilities, not mere hypotheses, and our governments will have to confront them.
As Britain emerges from Covid-19, it could find itself at the forefront of the response to future disasters. The government’s recent integrated review, Britain’s taking of the G7 presidency and the Cop26 climate conference, which will be hosted in Glasgow later this year, are all occasions to address global crises. But in order to ensure that the UK really is prepared, we need to first identify the biggest risks that we face in the coming decades.
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Toby Ord is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University, and author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Continue reading...Without a clear plan for what he wants to achieve, Boris Johnson risks becoming a bystander at a crucial world summit
In November Boris Johnson will host the most important global meeting ever to take place on UK soil. The outcomes of this UN summit on climate change, known as Cop26, will help shape the fates of billions of people for decades to come. For the UK it is also the first big stress-test of its new role in the world after leaving the EU.
Superficially the chances of success appear high. The US, China, EU, UK and 97 other countries have now stated that by mid-century their overall emissions of carbon dioxide will be zero. The economics are aligned: coal, oil and gas companies are increasingly poor performers, while renewables companies are booming. The escalating costs of climate emergency coupled with the increasingly obvious benefits of an energy transition are rapidly altering the calculus of what is possible.
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Simon Lewis is professor of global change science at University College London and University of Leeds, and the author, with Mark Maslin, of The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Continue reading...Climate impact, such as use of biofuels, to be taken into account when calculating charges, says government
Sweden plans to charge airlines more at takeoff and landing if their aircrafts are more polluting, the government has said.
The measure is set to go into effect in July and means that newer and more efficient aircraft will benefit from the scheme while older planes will be hit with higher fees.
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Continue reading...Bylaw supported by David Attenborough protects large area of seabed to allow kelp to regrow
Damaging trawl fishing has been banned in more than 100 square miles of seabed off Sussex to help once vast kelp forests recover.
A new bylaw has been approved to prohibit trawling year round over large areas along the entire Sussex coast closest to the shore, to help habitats regenerate and improve fisheries, Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) said.
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Continue reading...Deep Branch aims to create protein that will replace the use of soy, which has been linked to deforestation
A UK company that turns carbon dioxide into protein to be used for animal feed has raised €8m (£6.8m) in funding as it seeks to displace the use of deforestation-linked soy by farmers.
Carbon and hydrogen are fed to a microorganism in a fermentation process similar to what you would see in a brewery. But rather than alcohol, the output is a high-value protein that can be dried and converted into pellets to feed animals.
Continue reading...Experts say it’s unusual to see so many places with such high rainfall across such a wide area. But identifying the cause is complicated
Tuesday – Australia floods live updates: NSW and Qld weather warnings, heavy rain and road closuresNSW flooding: disaster zones declared as 18,000 people evacuatedHow three weather systems are crashing togetherLife-threatening floods have washed away homes and businesses with a deluge of rain inundating hundreds of kilometres of the New South Wales coast.
Falling on already soaked soils, the rains sparked dozens of flood warnings, with residents in parts of Sydney’s north and west also fearing for their homes and their lives.
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