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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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Residents have been asked to keep windows and doors closed
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The government must act to redress the unequal impact of climate change, or risk rising temperatures making disparities worse
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Starmer says planned fuel duty rise for September to be scrapped, and hauliers to get 12-month road tax holiday
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Don't forget relaxing sanctions on Russia!
I can now add "vatnik" to my list of "reasons to dislike Labour"
*sigh*
What a dismal bunch
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The US, Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia – some of the highest oil-producing nations and major greenhouse gas emitters – opposed the measure
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Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battleColombia is a global leader in climate activism. Could US influence drag country to a future of mining and fracking?
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Colombia plays an outsized role in the push for climate justice. In recent years, Muhamad has become a familiar face on the international stage, notably as a leading advocate for the transition away from fossil fuels at the Cop29 climate conference in Dubai, and then as president of the biodiversity Cop16 in Cali, Colombia.
Muhamad is by no means a lone voice for the environment in the Pacto Historico government. Francia Márquez, the vice-president of Colombia, won the Goldman environmental prize for her campaign to halt illegal goldmining in her ancestral community of La Toma. The environment minister, Irene Vélez Torres, has just co-chaired the world’s first conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels, involving an alliance of countries that want to accelerate the energy transition rather than be held back by the consensus-based UN system and the vetoes of big oil producers.
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But that started to change when one of the parent governors, Sarah Taggart, spearheaded St John’s climate action plan. “This school is in a high flood-risk area, so we were able to get [Department for Education] funding for a bigger project and take up some of the tarmac,” says Taggart, who enlisted the help of Trees for Cities, a charity whose work includes planting green spaces in urban playgrounds to assist their adaptation to the climate crisis.
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Oil markets will enter the “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the International Energy Authority warned on Thursday.
Fatih Birol added that the most important solution to the Iran war energy shock was a full and unconditional reopening of the strait of Hormuz.
Speaking to the London thinktank Chatham House, Birol said it was open to IEA members to release more strategic oil reserves as they had previously in March, and said the IEA stood ready to coordinate. As much as 80% of IEA’s collective reserves have not been released.
He warned that while stocks were eroding, no new oil was coming from the Middle East and the demand was increasing, mainly caused by the travel season. “This may be difficult and we may be entering the red zone in July-August if we don’t see some improvements,” Birol said.
Adding that he had “never seen the dark and long shadow of geopolitics so dominant in the energy sector”, Birol also said he feared extremist parties in Europe may opportunistically abuse the coming inflation to argue it represents the failure of existing political systems when, in truth, the price of oil is set internationally.
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Apart from FM, all seem to have scottish.ministers@gov.scot as contact email, which may not be new. CabSec etc will probably still work for individual ministers
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The HS2 project remains what it always was, a total dud. It is a superfluous railway that has simply run wild. There are plenty of fast trains to Birmingham and other ways of running more. This was always a vanity project of the David Cameron coalition. As the former Downing Street in-house HS2 expert, Andrew Gilligan, admitted to the Sunday Times 18 months ago, “HS2 was certain to fail from the start”, with the wrong route, wrong speed and wrong termini. It was ludicrous not to link up with HS1.
The trouble is the usual one, that projects on this scale, once begun, offer huge scope for contractual cost escalation. They arm themselves with consultants and accountants and soon outgun and outsmart those who must find them money. They exploit the biggest cult in modern politics, that every brick laid or inch of concrete mixed is “investment” and therefore must be “pro-growth”.
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Is it worth reading an article on HS2 that doesn't contain the word "capacity"?
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Why must we have ever more capacity for everything? This is a "growth at any cost" mindset.
If we are to thrive as a species, we need to start making do with what we have, and a managed reduction in harmful activities like driving and flying. As well as learning to live alongside nature, instead of trying to defeat it at every turn.
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Motorists cutting back on petrol and fuel purchases at the steepest rate since the Covid pandemic in 2020 drove retail sales in Great Britain to their biggest monthly decline in a year.“
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Meanwhile, over at the Ministry of Defence, the early hints are that next month, several billion more will be found to increase the defence budget to close an £18bn funding gap – and begin paying for the British army of the near future.“
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@neddie - excellent questions, which are the kind of thing I'd like to see Simon Jenkins address, instead of pretending that the entire point of HS2 is to speed up journeys.
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David Whyte, the report’s co-author and professor of climate justice at QMUL, said: “These are exceptional sentences that are being used to apply to protests which are themselves profoundly political.
“So it’s clear that extreme sentences and the level of remand detentions [before trial] at an extreme level are being used to respond to one category of prisoners and that’s prisoners who’ve been detained because they’ve been involved in civil disobedience, direct action as a result of political protest. So there is something going on which is profoundly political. Very often those protesters are reflecting majority rather than a minority view.”
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The challenge is greatly worsened by the climate emergency, which makes colder, wetter winters more frequent – though heavier vehicles and increased traffic certainly don’t help, water is the biggest cause of potholes.
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Scotland’s oil and gas industry has demanded the new SNP government sets out its “full-throated support” for the sector in the coming days.
North Sea bosses are also challenging the newly-appointed ministers to publish an energy strategy within the next 100 days, as the SNP begins its fifth consecutive term in office.
Earlier this week First Minister John Swinney appointed his cabinet and downgraded the energy portfolio to junior minister level under Stephen Gethins.
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World’s biggest miner BHP backtracks on climate action with key projects put on ice, leaked documents reveal
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/bhp-files-leak-mining-company-climate-action
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The future of oil and gas has erupted into a new political row as the Scottish Government faces accusations it demoted energy to a junior portfolio.
The SNP has been accused of having a “shameful disdain” for the oil and gas industry following John Swinney’s ministerial appointments.
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/26135277.snp-accused-disdain-north-sea-oil-gas-industry/
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Something remarkable happened in Edinburgh today with the announcement that a pioneering fund is guaranteeing ten years of support to a raft of potentially transformational projects designed to tackle poverty, racism and climate change across the Capital.
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Co-Head of the Fund Leah Black, who originally had the “kernel of an idea” to establish a long-term funding model while cycling a city towpath,
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https://www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/handing-power-to-the-people-in-edinburgh
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https://regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/news-and-notes/ending-poverty-in-edinburgh
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‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought
The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing back
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