The New Arab: Lebanese authorities ‘failed to uphold right to electricity’: HRW

Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By The New Arab staff. An HRW report pointed to 30 years of “fundamental neglect” and corruption as the driver of the country’s current energy crisis. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released on Thursday concluded that Lebanese authorities have failed to “uphold the right to electricity” through corruption…

The oil industry operating on a different planet.

Greenpeace activists board a Shell platform headed for the North Sea to expand existing oil and gas on 6th February (AFP via Getty Images)   It increasingly feels like the oil industry is operating on a different planet.   Profit-wise, things have never been better for the fossil-fuel titans. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergies

Misleading figures about ‘climate-friendly’ consumption – and how to spot them

The cost of the climate damage caused by organic meat production is just as high as that of conventionally farmed meat.

Germany’s razing a village to expand a coal mine a.o. ecological news

The protest started cheerfully enough on Wednesday, with music blaring and flags flying even under the driving rain. Then the police arrived, decked out in riot gear and backed by bulldozers, ready to demolish the village of Luetzerath to make way for the expansion of an opencast coal mine in the heart of Europe. As Germany turns back to the

Climate activists say Big Oil is taking cycling fans for a ride

Cycling teams draw most of their budgets from sponsorship, making them a particular target for Big Oil dollars simply because it’s so hard to turn the money away.

Climate Indicators to Watch in 2023

The year 2022 saw the US enact an unprecedented climate bill and countries take bold steps at two United Nations conferences to aid disaster-stricken developing nations and preserve what’s left of the natural world.

The Telegraph Frontpage for Thursday 2022 December 08

By Danny Boyle Good morning. Ministers face a backlash at plans to rely on soldiers to sacrifice Christmas to cover for striking public sector workers. Also today, Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is being released. Army fury as soldiers ordered to give up Christmas This month’s strikes will undoubtedly impact the public, but the walkouts

Historic Compensation Fund Approved At UN Climate Talks

Originally posted on Stigmatis:
“Loss and damage is a way of both recognizing past harm and compensating for that past harm,” said Dartmouth climate scientist Justin Mankin. Activists encourage world leaders to maintain policies that limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and provide reparations for loss and damage at the COP27 UN Climate Summit, Nov.…

COP27 – UK lead negotiator: “I’m incredibly disappointed”

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop:
Photosynthesis: nature requires carbon dioxide Still claiming a minor trace gas essential to nature causes ‘huge climate impacts’. Unbelievable. – – – A historic deal has been struck at the UN’s COP27 summit that will see rich nations pay poorer countries for damage and economic losses caused by climate…

Is the Top a Flop

We are in an era of upheaval, termed by some as a polycrisis, and Cop27 was never itself going to resolve the biggest of these – the climate emergency. Indeed, the most significant recent progress may well have already happened far from Sharm El-Sheikh, in the form of the American midterm elections and the rapprochement between the US and China, the two world’s largest emitters, on climate issues at the G20 in Bali.