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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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Last month was the hottest March on record, becoming the tenth record-breaking month in a row, scientists have said. The global air temperature was 0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average for March, according to the EU’s climate service, and 0.10°C above the previous high set in March 2016. It marks the tenth consecutive month where temperatures have been hotter than ever recorded for the respective time of year, after February also broke the old record by a tenth of a degree. “March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling for both air temperature and ocean surface temperatures,” sa...
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Only between 20 and 50 per cent of the households participating in a trial of Hong Kong’s new pay-as-you-throw waste tax were using the designated bags to dispose of rubbish, environment minister Tse Chin-wan has said, a week after the pilot scheme began. Residents had complained about the size of the bags and the inconvenience of recycling food waste, Tse told a TVB programme on Sunday, as he defended the government’s decision to implement the charging scheme amid a flailing economy. The Municipal Solid Waste Charging scheme, which was originally meant to take effect this month, requires resi...
Hong Kong Free Press
April in Hong Kong has got off to an unseasonably hot start, with highs of 31 degrees Celsius forecast for Thursday. The temperature on Monday, the final day of the long Easter weekend, reached 29.1 degrees, while the mean temperature was 27.3 degrees, well above the monthly mean of 23 degrees Celsius, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. The highest temperature ever recorded in April was in 1965, when the Observatory logged 33.4 degrees Celsius. Last month, the city saw its hottest March day since records began in 1884, when the maximum temperature measured at the Observatory hit 31.5 degr...
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An artist created a multicoloured temporary land-art installation from marine plastic waste on Sunday, as part of a clean-up of Lantau’s Fan Lau beach. German artist Liina Klauss led six volunteers in collecting 17 50-litre rubbish bags of refuse. The items were arranged in circles – measuring 20 metres in diameter – and photographed as part of Klauss’s international “curating the beach” series. The project took five hours and involved 600 pieces of broken styrofoam, 356 PET bottles, 425 cosmetics containers, 132 flip-flops, 23 plastic toys, five styrofoam boxes, five fishing buoys, two oil ba...
Hong Kong Free Press
Between five and eight tropical storms may come within 500 kilometres of Hong Kong this year, with higher than average temperatures expected, according to Observatory Director Chan Pak-wai. “Extreme weather can become more frequent because of the climate change,” Chan said at a Thursday press briefing. “So Hong Kong citizens are reminded to get prepared for extreme weather, especially pay close attention to the weather forecast and warnings issued by the Observatory and get earlier prepared.” According to the government forecaster, 2024 may be one of Hong Kong’s hottest years on record, with t...
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France’s Emmanuel Macron is among some dozen EU government leaders who have called for international cooperation to boost investment in atomic power but green groups dismiss their assertion that it is an essential climate tool to halt global temperature rise. Belgian prime minister Alexander De Croo attracted a raft of world leaders to a nuclear energy summit in the shadow of the iconic Atomium building in Brussels, to support his call for a renewed push for nuclear infrastructure deployment. Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia, Slovenia and...
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We already know that 2023 was the hottest year on record by a significant margin. But a new report from the UN’s meteorological agency reveals how many other symptoms of climate change were off the charts last year. “Climate change is about much more than temperatures,” says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)’s secretary-general Celeste Saulo. “What we witnessed in 2023, especially with the unprecedented ocean warmth, glacier retreat and Antarctic sea ice loss, is cause for particular concern.” The WMO’s latest State of the Global Climate report takes stock of numerous indicators of t...
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