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“The breaking point for me was a meeting in Singapore,” says Cerezo-Mota, an expert in climate modelling at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. There, she listened to other experts spell out the connection between rising global temperatures and heatwaves, fires, storms and floods hurting people – not at the end of the century, but today. “That was when everything clicked.
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People who plan cities will tell you that most taxpayers don’t usually think about their sewage and water — unless their tap water is undrinkable or their toilet doesn’t work. Or if they get a huge tax bill.
Metro Vancouver needs almost $35 billion for capital expenses related to water, liquid waste and parks over the next 30 years, with $11.5 billion designated as being connected to growth.
There’s no easy way to raise that many billions. The debate now is how the burden should be shared between existing homeowners and taxes on new construction.
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She paints a bleak picture of what could happen if the world fails to tackle the problem within the next decade, warning that the issue is “more acute” than climate change. Drug-resistant infections already kill at least 1.2 million people a year.
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Many have warned that the dominance of the humble gas boiler threatens to derail global climate targets, while keeping Europe reliant on gas imports and shackled to higher energy costs.
For most European homes, the answer is likely to be an electric air source heat pump, as governments try to clean up carbon emissions. But not all households are convinced. In the UK, the plans to replace millions of gas boilers across the country with the little-known devices has fed into culture wars. There are those who believe heat pumps could play a vital role in climate action, and sceptics who claim their benefits are a lot of hot air.
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Councillor Norman Hampshire, leader of East Lothian Council, praised the work of the officers in producing the new strategy and its importance to the future of the county.
He said: “We need to make sure we protect what we have.
"A tree is a climate regulator; it is not just the carbon it takes out from the atmosphere, it also reduces the water that is in the ground.
"It provides shade, reduces wind blow and provides shelter, so having as many trees as we can helps our environment.”
The full strategy is available to read on the council website.
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154 pages…
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Three in five adults in England say extreme weather has had a negative impact on their ability to be physically active, according to new research by Sport England.
The funding agency is announcing a new investment package “to help sports battle climate change” as part its first environmental and sustainability strategy.
A total of £45m will be used “to help more people get active in nature, restore flooded sports pitches and help sports clubs become sustainable”.
Major sports governing bodies will also be required to tackle climate change through “robust sustainability action plans” by 2027 in order to receive public funding.
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It’s common to think about the climate crisis as something that will happen in the future, in the global south. But for several months I’ve been investigating the devastating impact of extreme flooding in Europe for my Guardian series The floods.
What I saw, through my travels to Chesterfield, England, Germany’s Ahr valley and Wallonia in Belgium, was that the climate emergency is in Europe, now. And it’s been happening for years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/down-to-earth-the-floods
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AI may accelerate job losses and carbon emissions, report finds
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Unite warns Labour not to abandon North Sea workers with a ban on exploration
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Published 17th May 2024, 07:00 BST
Labour’s plans for the North Sea oil and gas sector have been made too soon and risk the jobs of workers, says Unite.
NOTE: The views expressed here are not necessarily endorsed by the Edinburgh Evening News
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Fragile and damaged marine life around Scotland’s coasts is not being properly protected because ministers in Edinburgh have broken their promises, environment campaigners have warned.
Prominent charities including the Marine Conservation Society and the National Trust for Scotland accuse the Scottish government of repeatedly missing its deadlines to protect vulnerable marine life from overfishing and the effects of climate breakdown.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/20/scotland-vulnerable-marine-protection-areas
The number of passengers RyanAir carried increased by 23% compared to the heights reached pre-pandemic
We’re going to burn this planet, aren’t we?
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THE UK will fail to achieve a “just and fair” transition by 2030 unless there is urgent alignment across the political spectrum to sustain offshore energy industry jobs and investment, a study has found.
Experts at Robert Gordon University analysed more than 6560 pathways for the industry between now and 2030, concluding that political decisions rather than market forces will influence the size of the workforce.
Of the thousands of scenarios analysed, less than 0.3% could be considered a “just and fair” transition, their report found.
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A “deal” allegedly offered by Donald Trump to big-oil executives as he sought $1bn in campaign donations could save the industry $110bn in tax breaks if he returns to the White House, an analysis suggests.
The fundraising dinner held last month at Mar-a-Lago with more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, reportedly involved Trump asking for large campaign contributions and promising, if elected, to remove barriers to drilling, scrap a pause on gas exports, and reverse new rules aimed at cutting car pollution.
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Inverbervie, on the north-east coast of Scotland, faces an existential threat, with storms carving away metres of shoreline. Can anything be done to save what is left?
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On Edinburgh's lack of ambition to meet the 'net zero'* by 2030 and 30% car-km reduction targets, by Cllr Ross Mckenzie:
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/05/22/backsliding-into-the-bushes/
*Stop calling it 'net zero' - we need to be at zero
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The head of the Environment Agency has admitted that freedom of information requests have been buried by the regulator because the truth about the environment in England is “embarrassing”.
Philip Duffy, the body’s chief executive, told an audience at the UK River Summit in Morden, south London, this week that his officials were “worried about revealing the true state of what is going on” with regards to the state of the environment.
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Stop calling it 'net zero' - we need to be at zero
Not entirely sure how net zero became a thing. Never seen any evidence to suggest that net zero would help. That's before we talk about the bullsh*tting and gaming that goes on i.e. we pay poorer countries to emit less so we can emit more.
Net zero is the murder strip of bike infrastructure. Actually will do more harm than good.
The climate baton is coming to Edinburgh. The plan of how it gets to the meadows from Haymarket is astounding. Involves Scott Arthur, a Tram and a bus.
Mmm
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Sales of avocados are up by 15% year on year at Tesco, despite concerns about their carbon footprint and fears about ethical standards on farms.
Graham Isaac, the general manager of Westfalia Fruit, said: “We are confident that, with a clear focus and untied effort as an industry, we will be able to significantly reduce our waste, use natural resources responsibly and protect the environment and biodiversity for all our futures.”
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The team of authors — formed to provide annual scientific updates between the every seven- to eight-year major U.N. scientific assessments — determined last year was 1.43 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1850 to 1900 average with 1.31 degrees of that coming from human activity. The other 8% of the warming is due mostly to El Nino, the natural and temporary warming of the central Pacific that changes weather worldwide and also a freak warming along the Atlantic and just other weather randomness.
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