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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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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
Ad Feature by Unite the Union
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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