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Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:32:34 +0000

UN secretary general António Guterres urges opening session in Brazil to bring about a ‘fundamental paradigm shift’

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

The failure to limit global heating to 1.5C is a “moral failure and deadly negligence”, the UN secretary general has said at the opening session of the Cop30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:00:03 +0000

Experts say 2023, 2024 and 2025 the three hottest years in 176 years of records, with 1.5C Paris agreement target now ‘virtually impossible’

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit

Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:02:52 +0000

ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked

Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.

The claims were made on the website of the Stove Industry Association, which represents the makers and sellers of stoves in the UK. Campaigners against air pollution said they were glad the ASA had debunked some “seriously misleading myths”.

Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:00:02 +0000

Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say

A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say.

Flooded UK coalmines could provide low-carbon cheap heat ‘for generations’

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:56 +0000

Report says proven technology could benefit thousands in poor quality housing and help UK meet carbon reduction targets

Flooded disused coalmines could be a significant source of energy and provide cheap heat to thousands of homes, a new report argues.

Mine water geothermal heat (MWGH) systems use the water in flooded coalmines, which is warmed by natural processes, to supply low-carbon heat. Heat exchangers and pumps recover the heat, which is distributed via district heating networks to homes and buildings, providing low-cost, long-term, stable energy.

‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study says

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:00:07 +0000

Winds of Melissa’s strength are now five times more frequent due to the climate crisis, research says

Every aspect of Hurricane Melissa, the most powerful storm ever to hit Jamaica, was worsened by the climate crisis, a team of scientists has found.

Melissa caused widespread devastation when it crunched into Jamaica as a category five hurricane on October 28, with winds up up to 185mph.

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:00:47 +0000

Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge issued on Thursday.

In documents submitted to the court, research suggests the air pollution from Ineos’s €4bn petrochemical plant would cause 410 deaths once operational, compared with the 300 permanent jobs the company says will be created.

‘There is no money’: As carbon markets collapse, what happens to the forests they promised to protect?

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:00:47 +0000

After it was found most offsets did not represent real carbon reductions, the money dried up. But successful schemes such as Kasigau in Kenya now face a stark future

The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:00:48 +0000

This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil

Today, in the Brazilian Amazon, the Belém summit opens ahead of the 30th United Nations climate change conference (Cop30). I have convened world leaders in the days leading up to the conference so that we can all commit to acting with the urgency the climate crisis demands.

Watch November's 'beaver' supermoon rising over Sydney's Bondi beach – video

admin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:20:12 +0000

This stunning timelapse shows the 'biggest' supermoon of 2025 lighting up the sky over Sydney on Wednesday evening, shining brightly as it rose above Bondi beach. The moon is considered a supermoon when it is closer to the Earth than usual, making it look much larger. The drama is partly due to something called the moon illusion, which makes the moon appear larger when it is close to the horizon and we have other objects to gauge it against