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World on ‘fast track to climate disaster’, says UN secretary general – video

World on ‘fast track to climate disaster’, says UN secretary general – video

António Guterres says the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reveals ‘a litany of broken climate promises’ by governments and businesses, and accuses some of them of lying in claiming to be on track to limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. In a strongly worded rebuke, he says: ‘It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unliveable world’

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Protecting the environment to reduce the risk of another pandemic

Protecting the environment to reduce the risk of another pandemic

Important ways we can help minimize the risk of future disease by rethinking how we farm, eat, trade and interact with other species

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Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO

Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO

An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at much lower levels than previously thought, UN medical scientists said on Monday.

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IPCC new report coming, on limiting global heating

 UN scientists have worked through the weekend to complete a key report on
how to restrict the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet.

Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a
rapid shift from fossil fuels over the next 8 years. They will also suggest
the widespread use of carbon removal technology to limit dangerous warming.
But disputes over the exact wording of the document have delayed agreement.

The IPCC is set to publish their findings on what we can do to stem climate
change on Monday. Most of the world’s leading researchers on climate change
are involved in the production of IPCC reports – their summaries of the
latest science, produced every six or seven years, are used by governments
in their negotiations on climate change, such as those that took place at
COP26 last November.

These IPCC reports are seen as the best, if slightly
conservative studies on the state of climate science. For the past two
weeks, IPCC scientists and government officials from all over the world
have been locked in a virtual approval session, going through this latest
report on how to stop climate change line by line.

This new study will be
the third of three important documents from the IPCC issued over the past
eight months. The previous two have looked at the causes and impacts of
climate change, but this one will focus on mitigation – or what we can do
to stop it. This essentially means that researchers will look at how we can
reduce the amount of warming gases that are emitted from human activities.
One key part of the summary report will detail what the world can do
between now and 2030 to limit heating.

 BBC 3rd April 2022https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-6095930

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IPCC ‘s dire warning on climate change is being ignored, amid war and economic turmoil

Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going unheeded
amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy
prices. The third segment of the landmark scientific report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which could be the last
comprehensive assessment of climate science to be published while there is
still time to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown – will be
published on Monday, warning that the world is not shifting quickly enough
to a low-carbon economy.

But the previous instalment of the vast report –
known as working group 2 of the IPCC – was published a month ago, just as
Russia invaded Ukraine, and received only muted attention, despite warning
of catastrophic and irreversible upheavals that can only narrowly be
avoided by urgent action now. Scientists told the Observer that Monday’s
fresh scientific warning must spur governments to belated action.

 Guardian 3rd April 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/03/dire-warning-on-climate-change-is-being-ignored-amid-war-and-economic-turmoil

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April 4 Energy News — geoharvey

Opinion:  ¶ “Tesla And German Auto Industry’s Varied Tech Paths” • Tesla manages its business very differently than its competitors. As a result, Tesla sales grew almost 90% in 2021, compared to a declines of 2% at Daimler and 3% at the VW Group. Tesla’s growth took place despite a world-wide shortage in chips, and […]

April 4 Energy News — geoharvey

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Poland: Ruling party chief invites nuclear weapons, more U.S. troops — Anti-bellum

ReutersApril 3, 2022 Poland ‘open’ to nukes stationed in country amid Russia-Ukraine war – party head Poland would be open to having nuclear weapons stationed in the country…ruling Polish party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in comments published Sunday as Warsaw calls for tougher action against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine. The politician noted that […]

Poland: Ruling party chief invites nuclear weapons, more U.S. troops — Anti-bellum

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