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A date has been set for public hearings at the International Court of Justice which could help define countries' legal obligations to fight climate change. The top United Nations court announced on Friday that public hearings will open on 2 December in a landmark case seeking a non-binding advisory opinion on "the obligations of States in respect of climate change." The UN General Assembly sent the case to the International Court of Justice last year. Secretary-General António Guterres said at the time that he hoped the opinion would encourage nations "to take the bolder and stronger climate a...
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Five times larger than the Titanic, the Icon of the Seas was unveiled at the start of 2024 as the world’s biggest cruise ship. It highlights a spiralling trend in the industry: the largest cruises have more than doubled in size since the year 2000. If this trajectory continues, ships could grow to a whopping eight times the size of the Titanic by 2050. They’d make the 10-deck, 269-metre-long ship from 1912 “look like a fishing boat”, according to a new report titled ‘Cruisezillas: How much bigger can cruise ships get?’ released by Transport & Environment (T&E) today. In the report, T&E calls f...
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A conveyor belt road could help Japan tackle two problems at once: greenhouse gas emissions and a shortage of lorry drivers. The latest plans for the 500 km route between Tokyo and Osaka were unveiled last month by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). They show goods being transported either on belts running down the middle of highways, alongside hard shoulders or through underground tunnels in automated, driverless electric vehicles. The 24-hour ‘Autoflow-Road’ could carry the same amount of cargo per day as 25,000 trucks. It could be operational within a decade...
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Air New Zealand scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction targets this week, citing delays in building new planes, a lack of alternative fuel and “challenging” regulations and policies. “This news reinforces what we already know - that the aviation industry cannot be trusted to reduce their own emissions,” says campaign group Stay Grounded. “It’s highly likely that we’ll see more airlines abandoning their emissions reduction goals as it becomes clear that the silver bullet they’re relying on - the use of so-called ‘SAF’ [sustainable aviation fuel] - is not feasible at anything close to the ...
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By Maxwell Radwin Mexico has pledged to more than double its clean energy output by 2030, investing in solar and wind power while transitioning away from fossil fuels. Yet the country continues to lag behind on its renewable energy targets, producing just 12% of its power from clean sources last year, watchdogs have found. At the same time, the country continues to subsidize the struggling state-owned oil company Pemex while beefing up its oil and natural gas infrastructure with new refineries and massive, transnational pipelines. The projects worry environmentalists not only because of climat...
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12 EU countries are set to miss their national climate targets under the Effort Sharing Regulation (ESR), according to a study analysing national climate plans. Another seven are at risk of not meeting their goals. If they don’t meet their required emissions reductions, they may have to pay financial penalties. The ESR is a policy framework - part of the EU’s climate and energy package - that sets binding national greenhouse gas targets for the 27 member states. It requires them to collectively cut emissions by 40 per cent (compared to 2005) by 2030. Member states have to meet climate targets ...
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Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A deadly heatwave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius. From Italy to Romania, authorities warned people to be cautious, drink plenty of water and avoid going outside during the hottest hours of the day. Italian authorities declared a red weather alert in seven cities on Thursday, mostly in the central parts of the country but also the capital Rome and Trieste in the northeast. The heat conditions are aggravated by humidity and could affect healthy people as well as those with h...
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Deforestation in Colombia fell by 36% in a year, marking a new record low. It's especially good news the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon, one-third of which is in Colombia. The Amazon is a crucial carbon sink meaning it sucks up carbon emissions that would otherwise contribute to global warming. The drop happened between 2022 and 2023 and comes off the back of years of campaigning by Indigenous activists who depend on the Amazon for their homes and livelihood. The decrease “means that 44,262 hectares of forest stopped being cut down,” Colombian Environment Minister Susana Muhamad told j...
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Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going 'net zero', meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. But a report from the company on Tuesday shows it is nowhere near meeting that goal. Rather than declining, its emissions grew 13 per cent in 2023 over the year before. Compared to its baseline year of 2019, emissions have soared 48 per cent. Google cited artificial intelligence (AI) and the demand it puts on data centres, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. Making that elect...
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Canada's historic wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels. Put another way, the fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as flights do in a year. This is the same amount of carbon dioxide that 647 million cars put in the air in a year, based on US EPA data. The new data lays bare the vicious circle of wildfires - they are becoming more frequent due to global warming which is caused by burning fossil fuels which produces emissions. Forests remove a lot of emissions from the atmosphere so when they burn down they ...
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