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Climate Home News: EU Commission defends 2030 climate target against ‘accounting trick’ critique
The EU’s Climate Plan and Green Deal: the political equivalent of Wirecard Read here
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Climate Home News – Airlines could get Free Pass on Climate for Five Years under Industry Proposal
The industry is lobbying to rewrite the rules of a UN aviation pact, in a move researchers say would remove pressure to invest in clean flying technology Read here
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Climate Home News: Four countries have declared climate emergencies, yet give billions to fossil fuels
The UK, France, Canada and Ireland have all formally recognised a climate crisis. But analysis shows they give $27.5bn annually in support for coal, oil and gas Read here
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Climate Home News: European court throws out climate lawsuit, saying plaintiffs are not unique
This court case has been deemed inadmissible because, according to the courts, the plaintiffs have not been affected by climate change directly. Now if a transational corporation claimed that its profits are suffering from climate […]
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Climate Home News: Germany, Italy, Poland snub call for net-zero carbon EU by 2050
Angela Merkel is still hailed as the “Environment Chancellor” in mainstream media. Merkel and the German political elite have little regard for the environment. While Germans meticulously sort the rubbish and buy organic food, their […]
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Climate Home News – French police tap counter-terrorism unit to quell climate activists
Emmanuel Macron is showing Europe what Militarised Liberal Democracy can do (The German government is decades ahead). Not only is the movement for social justice being criminalised, but also groups fighting climate change. Natalie Sauer […]
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Climate Home News: EU climate efforts not living up to Paris promises
Report ranking national efforts finds many European nations are working against efforts to increase ambition to act on climate change Read here
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Climate Home News – Documents reveal UK push to water down EU biomass regulations
The British government pushed to weaken EU controls on biomass energy in December, even though the technology will undermine efforts to contain global warming for up to half a century, according to research released today. […]
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Megan Darby – UN Shipping Climate Talks ‘Captured’ by Industry
The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]