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12.01.2022 - UK government sued over ‘pie-in-the-sky’ net-zero climate strategy
ClientEarth and Friends of the Earth say strategy fails to include policies needed to ensure emissions cuts.
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11.01.2022 - German climate minister says speed of carbon cuts needs to be trebled
Robert Habeck has called for nation to act to realise ‘gigantic task’ of creating climate neutral country.
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11.01.2022 - Johnson’s political weakness leaves climate agenda at risk, say campaigners
Analysts fear government’s commitment to net zero is facing most severe test yet as PM comes under increasing pressure.
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10.01.2022 - We can’t solve the climate crisis with a broken democracy
A year ago last Thursday, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy were fleeing for their lives as a violent mob swarmed the halls of the US Capitol. With their personal safety at risk, the two most powerful Republicans on Capitol Hill at last stood up to Donald Trump. In a heated phone call, McCarthy, the House minority leader, fruitlessly implored the president to call off the mob. Senate majority leader McConnell later called the rioters “terrorists” and said Trump was “morally responsible” for the violence.
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09.01.2022 - Only a culture change can end this state of climate inaction
George Monbiot writes movingly about his despair in the face of environmental inaction. It is possible to understand the strange lack of urgency by considering what George articulates elsewhere, namely that humanity is trapped in a consumer-capitalist system, whose effects are environmentally disastrous.
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08.01.2022 - ‘Local is better’: battered Haiti looks to empower peasants to fight climate crisis
A grassroots body, MPP, aims to help subsistence farmers reduce erosion and flooding and increase food security.
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07.01.2022 - ‘Drastic’ rise in high Arctic lightning has scientists worried
The region’s air typically doesn’t suit strikes – so they have become an important climate crisis indicator.
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06.01.2022 - The missing elements in our battle against the climate crisis
John Vidal’s list (It’s the great green reset: 10 things Britain can do now to save the planet, 3 January) seems very achievable, but I would like to add one more to accelerate change: climate income.
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05.01.2022 - Filipinos count cost of climate crisis as typhoons get ever more destructive
The Philippines adds little to global emissions but faces some of its worst effects in extreme weather. Climate justice is needed.
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02.01.2022 - The Observer view on Britain’s climate crisis targets
The UK’s green energy initiatives are failing just at the moment when we hold the leadership of Cop26
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