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Australia has ‘hottest, driest’ year on record as 2019 named second-hottest year worldwide, WMO says

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in :  Environment, Important News

Last year was the Earth’s second hottest since records began, and the world should brace itself for more extreme weather events like the devastating bushfires that have hit much of Australia, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The Geneva-based WMO combined several datasets, including two from the US space administration NASA and the UK Met Office. These showed that the …

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Firefighting associations call for federal royal commission into deadly bushfire crisis

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in :  Australia, Braking News, Environment

Firefighting associations across Australia are calling for a federal royal commission into the deadly bushfire crisis currently gripping Australia. Association secretaries from NSW, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia have called for urgent action which crosses state lines and provides more resources across the board. “There has been a complete failure federally to coordinate activity across various jurisdictions,” Stewart Little, …

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Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough unite to call for climate change action at next UN summit

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in :  Braking News, Environment

Climate campaigners Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough have joined forces to push politicians and businesses to step up action on climate change after a year in which schoolchildren took to the world’s streets in protest. Swedish teen activist Ms Thunberg, who turns 17 this week, said 2019 had been “a very strange year” as millions of young people skipped school …

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Madrid climate change talks end without deal on key carbon targets

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in :  Braking News, Environment, Europe

International climate talks that have gone on for two weeks have failed to reach an agreement on a key part of a deal that would help reduce global carbon emissions. Delegates have postponed a decision on global carbon markets which put a price on the emission of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Carbon markets allow one country to pay …

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Student climate change protesters take to the streets across the country

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in :  Australia, Braking News, Environment

A teenager whose family home was destroyed in bushfires has delivered an impassioned plea to the Prime Minister to take action on climate change, saying “thoughts and prayers are not enough”. Shiann Broderick, 18, who lost her home in Nymboida in northern NSW, gathered along with about 500 protesters outside Liberal Party headquarters in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo. …

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What climate summit achieved after Greta outburst?

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in :  Braking News, Environment, Important News

The UN’s climate summit has closed amidst cautious praise for its achievements, and bitter condemnation for its failures. On the plus side, more than 60 nations announced they were working on or exploring plans to reduce greenhouse gas to virtually zero. And a similar number said they would definitely boost their climate change ambitions by next year. On the minus …

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‘You have stolen my dreams,’ an angry Thunberg tells U.N. climate summit

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in :  Braking News, Environment

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg angrily denounced world leaders on Monday for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers in the heart of the United Nations by demanding: “How dare you?” The Swedish campaigner’s brief address electrified the start of a summit aimed at mobilising government and business to break international paralysis over carbon …

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Great Barrier Reef long-term outlook ‘very poor’: Report

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in :  Australia, Braking News, Environment, Important News

  For the first time, the long-term outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has been downgraded from “poor” to “very poor” by the federal government’s five-year reef report. The evidence-based report is written by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and reviewed and released by the federal Environment Minister. The report said climate change is escalating and is the …

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50% of new cars to be electric vehicles by 2030 under Labor climate change policy

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in :  Australia, Braking News, Environment

Labor will set a national electric vehicles target of 50% new car sales by 2030, and 50% for the government fleet by 2025, as well as allowing business to deduct a 20% depreciation for private fleet EVs valued at more than $20,000, as part of its climate change policy to be unveiled on Monday. Bill Shorten will also flag a …

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Japan to restart commercial whaling after deadlock with International Whaling Commission

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in :  Asia, Braking News, Environment

The Japanese Government has confirmed it will restart commercial whaling in July, exiting the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It will stop its so-called scientific whaling in the Antarctic Ocean, and only fish in seas near Japan and the country’s exclusive economic zone. Japan has long been fed up with the deadlock at the IWC, with pro- and anti-whaling nations unable …

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