Justin Trudeau’s government plans to limit emissions through a national cap-and-trade system, a policy first proposed in 2021 Canada will require its fossil fuel industry to cut its emissions between 35% to 38% below 2019 levels starting in 2030, it was announced on Thursday.
This blog has now closed Australia heatwave: temperatures set to soar on weekend Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast James Ashby to stand for One Nation in Queensland seat James Ashby , the chief of staff to One Nation leader Pauline
2023 is first year of potential pair of El Niño years and since 1997, every instance of these pairs has led to mass coral mortality Record-breaking land and sea temperatures, driven by climate breakdown, will probably cause “unprecedented mass coral bleaching and mortality”
Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patterns Two small, oval fossils thought to be prehistoric plants are actually the remains of baby marine turtles, researchers have revealed. The fossils, found in rocks dating to between 132
A record 84,000 people are in attendance at the UN climate summit in Dubai, including thousands of activists and members of civil society Continue reading...
However the Albanese government has not contributed to a newly created global loss and damage fund at Cop28 Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Australian government has pledged A$150m climate finance for Pacific countries, but has not
Environment spokesperson Steve Reed plans to tackle vested interests and expose ‘horror’ inflicted on rural communities Labour will take on vested interests from water companies to housebuilders and farmers in an effort to restore the UK’s degraded natural environment, the
Exclusive: Five IPCC report authors say scientists should be allowed to make policy prescriptions and potentially oversee implementation Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in
Groups seek more time to comment on US Forest Service proposal to store carbon dioxide amid fears over safety and impact A proposal that would allow industries to permanently stash climate-polluting carbon dioxide beneath US Forest Service land puts those habitats and the
Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others Last September, the rapper Killer Mike was DJing hip-hop classics like Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun at a music festival afterparty in
A lucrative underground trade risks undermining research, creating new pandemics and pushing a recently abundant species to the brink In 2019, Jonah Sacha, a researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, received a delivery of 20 monkeys from Mauritius. As part of his
As world leaders gather at Cop28, these charts show how far away the major economies are from their targets Not a single G20 country has policies in place that are consistent with the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C and meeting their “fair share” of
270 horses were shot during a two-day trial with no reports of unnecessary animal harm or suffering Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The New South Wales government has begun
Traditionally unpopular carbon taxes could be achieved with regulatory compliance, IMF head tells Cop 28 Diverting the trillions of dollars by which the world subsidises fossil fuel production each year, and putting an implicit price on carbon emissions, would generate the vast
The 80,000 delegates are thinking of how best to unwind from the climate summit ‘whirlwind’ in Dubai on their only day off From the world’s largest waterpark to an indoor ski resort in a shopping centre, Cop28 delegates will have plenty of options to choose from on their only
