Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from #climate change
“Finally, maybe for the first time anywhere, Vermont is going to hold the companies most responsible for climate-driven floods, fires and heat waves financially accountable for a fair share of the damages they’ve caused.”
The world has enough FF projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 & govts should stop issuing new oil, gas & coal licenses, acc to a lg. study aimed at pol leaders.
@SallyStrange i find the underreporting of that disaster insane. 1/2 a city almost the size of houston was/still is under 2 meters of water. and fully predicted by the state's own climate projections. it's like a sign of what's coming for many other places.
A rare moment when a video title is not clickbait. Great report from DW Planet A on energy system inefficiencies. I've wonder whether talking more about efficiency and waste to climate skeptics might bring them on board with green policies. Personally, I don't care how we do it, as long as we get to the same end result of a more sustainable world.
"#Climate-induced disasters, in the shape of devastating floods and excessive rains, have increased the burden of #malaria manifold, registering an alarming spike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province [#Pakistan] in the preceding year of 2023.
Data compiled by the Public Health Department puts that in startlingly concrete terms: KP's malaria burden more than tripled in one year, a jump from 150,000 cases in 2022 to 500,000 in 2023, Dr Roghani disclosed."
"Natural gas producers are planning for a significant spike in demand over the next decade, as artificial intelligence drives a surge in electricity consumption that renewables may struggle to meet alone." #AI#climate#ClimateCollapse#environment
"The movement should focus on a more feasible, yet crucial, step on the road to #FossilFuel phaseout: stopping fossil fuel #expansion.
Proponents of ambitious #climate action should direct policy and advocacy efforts toward building a global “No New Fossil” norm, encompassing exploration for and development of new fossil fuel extraction sites, and permitting and construction of new, large-scale fossil fuel–consuming infrastructure."