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Cop29: what are carbon credits and why are they so controversial?

admin — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:00:20 +0000

Once heavily scorned because of fraud and poor outcomes, carbon trading is likely to be high on the agenda in Baku

For the next two weeks, countries will gather on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss how to increase finance for climate crisis adaptation and mitigation. A global agreement on carbon markets will be high on the agenda as countries try to find ways of generating the trillions they need to decarbonise in order to limit heating to below 2C above preindustrial levels.

Here is what you need to know.

Battery-powered electric vehicle sales plunge by 25% as Australian drivers choose hybrid models

admin — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:00:23 +0000

Australian Automobile Association analysis notes hybrids are exempt from fringe benefits tax until 1 April 2025, which can save consumers thousands of dollars

Fears New York buildings’ deadly toll on migratory birds could be on the rise

admin — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:00:16 +0000

Annual bird survey suggests ‘particularly bad’ autumn on key migration route through city’s brightly lit skyscrapers

As fall bird migration nears its end in New York City, a troubling trend may be emerging: preliminary evidence suggest that more avians collided with buildings this season compared with last autumn.

Who’s who at Cop29? The world leaders and others who will attend

admin — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:00:15 +0000

Crucial question for summit will be how to help developing countries cope with extreme weather caused by high temperatures

Deleted tweets, missed warnings and calls for the ‘hangman’: the bitter political fallout from Spain’s floods

admin — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 05:00:07 +0000

The region’s president responds to criticisms that he was slow to act by attacking the prime minister

The sun still hadn’t risen on Tuesday 29 October when the mayor of Utiel, Ricardo Gabaldón, took another look at the warnings from Spain’s state meteorological office and ordered all the schools in the small Valencian town to close.

“The warning early that morning – at 5am or 6am – was orange,” he said. “That’s when I was weighing up whether to close the schools here. In the end, I ordered them to close at six or seven that morning. Soon after, the alert went red.”

‘Devastating’: California fire victims return to sift through rubble of homes

admin — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:50:44 +0000

Ten people have been injured so far by the Mountain fire, which was 17% contained by Saturday morning

As firefighting crews continued to battle the Mountain fire on Saturday, some residents were allowed to return to areas destroyed by the blaze to sift through the destruction to their homes.

As of 7am Pacific time on Saturday, the fire had been 17% contained, according to Cal Fire, the state’s wildfire-fighting agency.

Tory former energy secretary facing conflict of interest claim over JCB owner links

admin — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:00:03 +0000

Shadow cabinet secretary Claire Coutinho accepted donation from Lord Bamford while overseeing millions awarded to his family businesses in green grants

A Conservative former cabinet minister who took donations from the billionaire boss of the JCB digger dynasty – including a £7,000 trip on his VIP private helicopter – oversaw decisions to award his family’s business empire millions in taxpayer-funded green energy grants.

After Trump re-election, UK will lead efforts to save Cop29, says Miliband

admin — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:00:05 +0000

Energy secretary says Britain must work on vital alliances with other countries following victory of climate-denier Trump

The UK must ramp up its efforts on renewable energy to foster national security in an increasingly uncertain world, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has warned, on the eve of a fraught global summit on the climate crisis.

‘He thrives on chaos’: to dismiss Trump pledges as campaign rhetoric is a triumph of hope over experience | Kim Darroch

admin — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:00:04 +0000

The lesson of his first term is that he does what he says he is going to do: the UK must prepare

Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee | Simon Tisdall

admin — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 17:00:54 +0000

After Donald Trump’s victory, brute force will prevail over geopolitics as authoritarians are appeased from Russia to Israel to China

Feelings are not the usual focus of a world dominated by macho strongmen, complex geopolitical challenges, wars and disasters. Yet every rule has exceptions. Following Donald Trump’s unexpectedly decisive US election victory, dark storm clouds seeded with powerful emotions overshadow the international landscape.