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Six activists cleared of causing criminal damage to Shell’s London headquarters in 2019
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have been cleared of causing criminal damage to Shell’s London headquarters despite the judge directing jurors that they had no defence in law.
Two of the group’s co-founders, Simon Bramwell, 49, and Ian Bray, 53, were acquitted on Friday alongside Jane Augsburger, 55, Senan Clifford, 60, David Lambert, 62, and James “Sid” Saunders, 41, after a trial at Southwark crown court.
Continue reading...World leaders will be unable to halt climate breakdown without strong action from biggest emitter
The US, the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is now committed to halving emissions this decade.
Joe Biden’s announcement, at a White House virtual climate summit, has thrown the spotlight clearly on the world’s biggest emitter: China.
Continue reading...Billionaires, CEOS and union executives to help sell president’s climate-friendly transformation of US economy at virtual summit
Joe Biden has urged world leaders to ramp up their investment in clean energy to ensure the planet does not reach the “point of no return” in the climate crisis, as he closed a major summit of governments at the White House.
Related: Biden vows to slash US emissions by half to meet ‘existential crisis of our time’
Continue reading...Caroline Lucas MP on how an obsession with GDP is driving the climate crisis, and Oliver B Steward on why it’s time for a green new deal
There is a fundamental flaw in Boris Johnson’s approach to tackling climate change, and that’s the G-word – growth (UK to toughen targets on greenhouse gas emissions for next 15 years, 19 April).
On Tuesday, he spoke about “laying the foundations for decades of economic growth”. In his speech to President Biden’s climate summit, when he wasn’t talking about “cake, have, eat” (how did the interpreters cope with that?), he was saying tackling climate change would be about jobs and growth.
Continue reading...Rick Spinrad to head National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has key role in protecting environment
Joe Biden has tapped Rick Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency at the vanguard of climate, weather and ocean science for the United States.
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Continue reading...An urban wildlife refuge is meant to alleviate generations of environmental racism that has beset the historic neighborhood of Mountain View. That’s assuming it can meet the community’s needs
Albuquerque’s South Valley was once a thriving oasis of food production watered by a network of historic irrigation canals, or acequias. Today, it’s home to several historic neighborhoods along the Rio Grande, including Mountain View.
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Jessica Kutz is an assistant editor for High Country News. Email her at jessicak@hcn.org or submit a letter to the editor
Continue reading...Leading climatologist Michael Mann says Coalition’s policies ‘do absolutely nothing’ to address the crisis and US climate negotiators won’t be fooled
Report claiming global temperature rise will top 1.5C by 2030s divides scientistsWWF Australia creates legal fund to fight projects threatening forestsOne of the world’s most influential climate scientists Michael E Mann says John Kerry and US climate negotiators are not going to be “fooled by the smoke and mirrors the Morrison government appears to be employing to distract from their clear record of inaction on climate”.
Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders, including Scott Morrison, to a virtual summit on the climate crisis next week – an event coinciding with Earth Day.
Continue reading...Climate Council report says most emissions cuts need to occur in the next decade to keep global heating below 2C
Coalition can’t conceal inaction on climate from US with ‘smoke and mirrors’WWF Australia creates legal fund to fight projects threatening forestsA report by the Climate Council claiming that the global average temperature rise will likely breach 1.5C by the 2030s has caused division in the scientific community.
The report, published on Thursday, follows controversy over similar arguments made in a review by the Australian Academy of Science, which said global aspiration of limiting global heating to 1.5C was now “virtually impossible” to achieve.
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Continue reading...Report author calls for thorough clean-up of political donations, directorships and embedded interns
Boris Johnson’s government is “too cosy” with vested interests in business to take strong action on the climate crisis, the author of a report on “the polluting elite” has warned.
Peter Newell, a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex, said: “We are never going to have change while these actors are so close to government. The government is not willing to take on these interests as it has close ties to big industries, including fossil fuels. There is a definite reluctance to take them on.”
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Continue reading...National Weather Service station in Massachusetts evacuated on 31 March with a demolition crew set to raze the site this month
Twice a day for the past half a century, a weather balloon to measure atmospheric conditions was released from a research station situated on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Faced with advancing seas that are set to devour it, the outpost has now been abandoned.
On 31 March, the handful of workers who operated the National Weather Service station in Chatham were evacuated due to fears the property could fall into the Atlantic Ocean. A final weather balloon was released before they left, with a demolition crew set to raze the empty site this month.
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