environmentalissues
G7 countries have agreed to phase out coal power during the first half of the 2030s. The Environment, Energy and Climate G7 meeting concluded on Tuesday at the Palace of Venaria in Turin. The focus of the summit was green transformation and addressing climate change, pollution, the energy crisis and biodiversity loss. In a statement issued at the end of the two-day conference, the G7 countries said they have jointly agreed to "phase out existing unabated coal power generation in our energy systems during the first half of 2030s or in a timeline consistent with keeping a limit of 1.5C temperatu...
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“Can we call it a catastrophe? Yes, we can.” In this episode of ‘Ocean Calls’, Ukrainian marine biologist Mikhail Son is referring to the destruction of the Kakhovska dam on the Dnieper River in the early hours of June 6th last year. The explosion released a vast amount of freshwater, sweeping along nearly everything in its path to the sea and leading to devastating pollution. Listen to the episode: “Various terrestrial animals and plants, fish, and invertebrates ended up in the seawater and perished,” explains Son, who is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Marine Biology at the National ...
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Switzerland’s attempt to explore the possibility of dimming the sun has been dismissed by a United Nations summit this week. Solar geoengineering will go no further after a debate at the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Kenya failed to reach a consensus on the issue last night. Switzerland had suggested creating a UN expert group to study the “risks and opportunities” of solar radiation modification (SRM), a controversial set of technologies aimed at cooling the Earth. But the European country withdrew its draft resolution in the face of strong opposition from other nations. European Commissi...
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Unlike the slogan used to devastating effect in the 1978 Tory ad campaign against their rivals, Labour is now working. Its leader has, in fact, been working very hard — at systematically laying waste to Labour’s most inspiring plans including a national care service, scrapping the House of Lords, a wealth tax, and, most recently, its promise of £28 billion (€32.7bn) a year in green investment. With a colossal lack of vision, Sir Keir Starmer blamed what has rightly been dubbed his “mother of all U-turns” on environmental investment on a shortage of cash, and claimed the so-called “radical” pol...
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