Climate

Près de 60 pays soutiennent des feuilles de route volontaires pour sevrer le monde du charbon, du pétrole et du gaz Les gouvernements ont été invités à élaborer des « feuilles de route » nationales définissant la manière dont ils mettront fin à la production et à l'utilisation des combustibles fossiles, après une réunion historique sur le climat impliquant près de 60 pays. Ces plans volontaires constitueront le socle d'une nouvelle initiative visant à affranchir le monde du charbon, du pétrole et du gaz, au cœur de deux jours de discussions intensives en Colombie cette semaine. Lire la suite...

Le Roi insistera probablement sur sa passion pour la nature lors de sa visite d'État aux États-Unis, mais son plaidoyer tombera probablement dans l'oreille d'un sourd. Parmi les nombreux conflits de visions du monde entre le Roi Charles III et Donald Trump, le plus important concerne un sujet que la Maison Blanche a cherché à faire taire : l'avenir de la planète. Pendant plus de 50 ans, en tant que Prince de Galles, Charles, soucieux de l'environnement, s'est exprimé fréquemment, s'adressant aussi bien aux sommets de l'ONU qu'à des réunions privées, pour appeler à une meilleure préservation de la nature et à une action forte sur le climat. Lire la suite...

Shareholder agm briefly adjourned after protesters wearing T-shirts labelled ‘No more big oil’ burst into songThe chair of NatWest was forced to defend the bank against accusations of “climate backtracking” at a chaotic annual shareholder meeting, which was temporarily suspended owing to singing protesters.Not long after the meeting began in Edinburgh, it was adjourned for about half an hour after a protester interrupted Rick Haythornthwaite’s opening speech. Continue reading...

• 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...