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A damning new report has accused Big Oil of privately acknowledging its efforts to downplay the dangers of burning fossil fuels - while publicly stating they were opposed to the practice. The report, headed up by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the United States, says oil giants including ExxonMobil and Chevron - as well as several industry trade groups - were behind a campaign aimed at defending the industry's interests. They claim this has all been done at the expense of the planet. "Big Oil has run campaigns to confuse and mislead the public while working unceasingly to lo...
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On 9 February 2024, Dutch MEP Rob Roos told an audience in Poland that the EU Green Deal was “destroying our food system”. In his closing remarks, he warned, “We are heading toward what I call a new kind of communism.” Roos is a radical-right politician who currently sits as an independent in the Parliament’s European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, alongside far-right parties including Brothers of Italy and Spain’s Vox. When he made the comments, for which there is no evidence, Roos was speaking at a relatively minor event in Warsaw. Posted to YouTube, a nearly two-hour video of the...
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The Department of Education ordered students in more than 47,000 public schools to study from home due to health risks from record-high temperatures. The Philippines is among the worst affected by the sweltering weather in Southeast Asia.
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Leaders from Germany and Spain are calling for a global tax on billionaires to help tackle the costs of the climate crisis. Brazil, which chairs the G20 group of the world’s largest economies, first proposed a tax on the super-rich at a meeting of finance ministers in February. Now, finance chiefs from Germany, Spain and South Africa have joined Brazil in fleshing out the proposal which could see the world’s 3,000 billionaires made to pay a minimum 2 per cent levy on their wealth. “It is time that the international community gets serious about tackling inequality and financing global public go...
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Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight. The skies are predicted to clear on Wednesday as winds shift and move the dust, with temperatures dipping. On Tuesday, the daily high in parts of the southern island of Crete topped 30 degrees Celsius, more than 20 degrees higher than what was registered in much of northern Greece. People took to social media to express surprise at the orange skies that covered the city. The strong southerly winds over the past few days have also fanned...
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A climate protester who faced up to two years in prison for holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants cannot be charged with contempt of court, a London judge has ruled. Trudi Warner (63) had been arrested last March and accused of “deliberately targeting” jurors before a trial of climate activists from the group Insulate Britain. She held a sign in front of Inner London Crown Court that said: “Jurors you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience.” High Court Justice Pushpinder Saini said yesterday (22 April) her ac...
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One third of rivers across Europe breached the ‘high’ flood threshold last year, climate scientists have calculated, while 16 per cent swept past the ‘severe’ mark. From Italy to Slovenia and Greece, swollen rivers took a deadly toll throughout 2023. The year ended with major river basins such as the Rhine and Danube at record or near-record levels. This hydrological volatility is one big impact of the climate crisis on Europe, captured in extensive detail in the new State of the Climate report from the EU’s climate agency Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). “In 2023, E...
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The climate crisis will reduce global income by about a fifth in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that's not warming. That’s according to a new study which predicts people in the world’s poorest areas and those least responsible for heating the atmosphere will take the biggest monetary hit. Climate change’s economic bite out of incomes is already locked in at about $38 trillion (€35.6 trillion) a year by 2049, researchers at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) found. By 2100 the financial cost could hit twice what previous studies estimate. “Our analysi...
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Charities Avaaz, WeMove and Oxfam were joined by several young activists to highlight wealth inequality outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Protesters used an inflatable jet in order to draw attention to the lavish lifestyles of the super-rich. According to a report from Oxfam published in April this year, EU governments are losing out on €286.5 billion in revenue annually due to their failure to adequately tax the rich. The amount equals out to roughly €33 million per hour. Julian Desiderio, a policy advisor on tax and inequality at Oxfam Belgium told Euronews, "If we are able to hav...
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They're between 16 and 23 years old, we don't know how many are going to vote, but the priorities of the most politically engaged seem pretty clear: climate, equality and security. 'Climate change keeps us awake at night'Climate change "is an imminent threat", according to Kevin Van Hevel, 22, from Belgium. "If I think about myself having children in the somewhat near future, I want to be able to put them into a world that's going to thrive and be healthy." Gabriel Georgiou, 18, from Cyprus, says that the climate emergency is one of those things that keep him awake at night: "It really makes y...
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