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BBC: World’s wealthiest ‘at heart of climate problem’
The world’s wealthy must radically change their lifestyles to tackle climate change, a report says. Read here
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Reuters: French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel […]
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Transport & Environment – Global airline emissions plan falls short of EU goals, Brussels advised
It has been an open secret that the UN’s Corsia plan, which was de facto written by the aviation industry and corrupt UN technocrats, is useless and CO2 caused by planes will rise in the […]
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Branko Milanović – Climate change, covid, and global inequality
What measures to stop climate change could we adopt from the COVID lockdown? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That […]
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City A.M. – French government scraps plans for expansion of Charles de Gaulle airport
The French government has today scrapped plans for a major expansion at Charles de Gaulle airport due to climate change concerns. Read here
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eu observer: EU Commission wary of Austria’s green air-price plan
How the EU will impose its Braun Deal: by blocking national governments from introducing measures to reduce CO2 Read here
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Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis – Outdated carbon credits from old wind and solar farms are threatening climate change efforts
chuyuss / shutterstock Mark Maslin, UCL and Simon Lewis, UCL French global energy giant Total recently announced it had delivered its first shipment of “carbon neutral liquid natural gas”. Natural gas is, of course, a […]
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The Case for Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose “Forlorn Hope” was a British military term from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century for a group of soldiers chosen to take an extremely hazardous role in a military […]
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Cardiff University – Climate Scientists Fly more than other Researchers
A lot of flying by academics simply has to do with a sense of entitlement, but isn’t that true of most people who fly? Time for a rethink. Cross-posted from Phys Org The large, international […]
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Tim Radford – Supply Chains generate massive Carbon Emissions
When it comes to cutting carbon emissions, think global. Think multinational. Think Coca-Cola, or Total. But don’t fly. Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 years, for […]