The ODT has an excellent if lengthy piece on the cruise ship industry in times of climate crisis.
The Climate Change Commission is now consulting on whether emissions from international shipping & aviation should be included in NZ's carbon cutting goals out to 2050.
🇨🇦🤝 🇺🇸 Canada and U.S. make first co-investment in critical minerals producers
Nat. Res. Min. says the collaboration with the U.S. will help secure supplies of critical minerals that are needed for the green and digital economy.
U.S. D o D says its investments align with its national defense industrial strategy & show a shared commitment to strengthening North American material supply chains.
Heavy rains flooded Lombardy, in particular the fashion capital Milan. Other northern regions - Veneto and Piedmont - were also affected. Over the past 24 hours, more than a thousand rescue operations have been carried out here, the Italian fire and rescue service reported.
“Inconsistent or incomplete planning, a lack of funding, and the failure to make timely preparations to shield a population of 1.4 billion are leaving communities vulnerable as periods of extreme temperatures become more frequent, longer in duration and affect a wider sweep of country.”
Poilievre would rather 'watch the country burn' than fight climate change: Trudeau
"Trudeau says Poilievre would scrap the price on pollution and take those cheques [rebates] away at a time when Canadians are struggling with the cost of living, and as wildfires, flooding and other extremes are affecting people across the country."
#Florida#GovernorRonDeSantis#ClimateCrisis
"Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by DeSantis."
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that strikes climate change from state law
Biden admin announced will end coal leasing on federal lands in Powder River Basin, which produces nearly half the coal in the US.
The decision by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management affects a vast coal-producing region that covers more than 13 million acres across Montana and Wyoming, and it handed a long-sought victory to climate advocates. For years, they have fought to restore an Obama-era moratorium on coal mining on federal lands #ClimateCrisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/05/16/coal-leasing-powder-river-basin-climate/
"The literature on degrowth routinely argues (appropriately so) that the global north rather than the global south must be the target for change, but it may well be that the vanguard for degrowth resides, paradoxically, in the global south. It may be that subconscious bias causes us to believe that the global south must catch up with the economic production of the wealthiest states, rather than encouraging us to imagine that the wealthy states need to catch up to the level of consciousness displayed by the most radical societies in the global south."
Just to follow up on this media release. After the protest, at 2pm Labor MP Peter Khalil issued a statement on Facebook saying: “The role of gas should be limited to what is absolutely necessary for our transition to a low-emissions economy. Not one bit more.”