Climate

Casi 60 países respaldan hojas de ruta voluntarias para desvincular al mundo del carbón, el petróleo y el gas. Se ha pedido a los gobiernos que desarrollen “hojas de ruta” nacionales que establezcan cómo pondrán fin a la producción y el uso de combustibles fósiles, tras una reunión climática histórica en la que participaron casi 60 países. Los planes voluntarios formarán la base de una nueva iniciativa para alejar al mundo del carbón, el petróleo y el gas, el foco de dos días de intensas conversaciones en Colombia esta semana. Continuar leyendo...

King probablemente insistirá en su pasión por la naturaleza durante su visita de estado a US, pero su defensa caerá en oídos sordos. De los muchos choques en la visión del mundo entre King Charles III y Donald Trump, el mayor se centra en un tema que la White House ha intentado silenciar: el futuro del planeta. Durante más de 50 años, como Prince of Wales, Charles, de mentalidad ecologista, se pronunció con frecuencia, dirigiéndose tanto a cumbres de UN como a reuniones a puerta cerrada, para instar a una mejor tutela de la naturaleza y a una acción firme sobre el clima. Continuar leyendo...

La junta general de accionistas fue suspendida brevemente después de que manifestantes con camisetas con el lema «No más petróleo» rompieran a cantar El presidente de NatWest se vio obligado a defender al banco frente a acusaciones de «retroceso climático» en una caótica junta anual de accionistas, que fue suspendida temporalmente debido a manifestantes que cantaban. Poco después de que comenzara la reunión en Edimburgo, se suspendió durante aproximadamente media hora después de que un manifestante interrumpiera el discurso de apertura de Rick Haythornthwaite. Continuar leyendo...

• Brazilian President announced on Monday a comprehensive enforcement initiative targeting illegal logging and land invasions in the Amazon, deploying 5,000 additional federal agents to protected areas. • The government committed to reducing deforestation rates by 80 percent over the next two years through satellite monitoring and criminal prosecutions of organized trafficking networks. • Environmental groups and the U.S. State Department praised the pledge as a meaningful step toward climate commitments, though skeptics noted enforcement challenges in remote regions.

Researchers find ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposuresSimultaneous exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change’s impacts likely generates an additive or synergistic effect that increases reproductive harm, and may contribute to the broad global drop in fertility, new peer-reviewed research finds.The review of scientific literature considers how endocrine-disrupting chemicals, often found in plastic, coupled with climate change’s effects, such as heat stress, are each linked to reductions in fertility and fecundity across global species – including in humans, wildlife and invertebrates. Continue reading...

Shareholders including the Church of England back call for protest votes against the bank’s chair NatWest is at risk of an embarrassing showdown at its shareholder meeting this week, as investors and leading scientists call for an urgent reversal of what they describe as “climate backtracking”.Campaigners, including ShareAction, are calling for protest votes against the bank’s chair, Rick Haythornthwaite, at its annual meeting in Edinburgh on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Study of 1,300 campaigners finds arrests, fines and jail terms increase determination of activists to take direct actionThe criminalisation of direct action climate protests in the UK is counterproductive and increases the determination of activists to undertake disruptive demonstrations, according to a study of 1,300 campaigners.New findings suggest arrests, fines and lengthy prison sentences given to nonviolent climate protesters who have blocked roads or damaged buildings may actually radicalise them. The repression of protest could even be one driver of recent covert actions such as the cutting of internet cables, they said. Continue reading...

More than 50% of voters at first AGM under new leadership oppose plans to scrap climate reportingBP’s board has suffered a triple climate rebellion in its first shareholder meeting since appointing new leadership to steer the embattled oil company.More than 50% of shareholders voting at the company’s annual general meeting (AGM) came out against its plans to scrap its existing climate reporting, and its resolution to replace in-person annual shareholder meetings – a lightning rod for climate protest in recent years – with online-only events. Continue reading...