Breaking Waves: Ocean News

Chris Bowen makes last-minute diplomatic stop in Turkey as Australia ramps up bid to host Cop31

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Climate change minister’s effort to convince Ankara to drop out underlines push for ‘Pacific Cop’

Valencia’s president admits mistakes in flood response but will not resign

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Carlos Mazón resists calls to step down, saying floods that killed 216 in his area were unprecedented and ‘apocalyptic’

The regional president of Valencia, who is under mounting pressure over his handling of the catastrophic floods that killed 216 people in the area, has conceded mistakes were made but refused to step down, claiming the unprecedented and “apocalyptic” scale of the disaster simply overwhelmed the system.

Santos figured out net zero roadmap ‘literally on the fly’, court hears in world-first greenwashing case

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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility accuses Australian oil giant of misleading and false claims in closing arguments

Week in wildlife in pictures: a very lost penguin, cloned baby ferrets and a mystery mollusc

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Picture an all-seeing eye scanning the dying Earth – and then lighting on our ‘solutions’ at Cop29 | George Monbiot

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:00:20 +0000

What would it witness in Azerbaijan? A species that knows it is destroying itself but is too greedy to change course

Cop29 live: oil bosses given red carpet treatment at climate summit

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At least 123 oil and gas bosses and staff invited as ‘guests’ by Azerbaijani government and given host country badges, the Guardian has learne

According to an interesting piece in the Africa Report, African countries at Cop are wary of alienating China.

Smog crisis: pollution envelops Indian capital as Pakistan province declares emergency

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:53:08 +0000

Schools ordered to close in Delhi and Punjab province as neighbouring countries battle dangerous air pollution

India’s capital, Delhi, has ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice while Pakistan’s Punjab province has declared a health emergency, banning construction, shutting schools for another week and moving universities online, as both countries battle an air pollution crisis.

‘Learn how to safely catch funnel-webs’: Sydneysiders tasked with hunt for venom as spiders’ breeding season begins

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:24:38 +0000

Baby spiders collected from egg sacs via Australian Reptile Park’s yearly callout are vital to creating lifesaving antivenom

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:01:11 +0000

Future UN conferences should only be held in countries that show support for climate action, urge influential group

Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29, says report

Future UN climate summits should be held only in countries that can show clear support for climate action and have stricter rules on fossil fuel lobbying, according to a group of influential climate policy experts.

Over 1,700 coal, oil and gas lobbyists granted access to Cop29, says report

admin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:01:11 +0000

Fossil fuel-linked lobbyists outnumber delegations of almost every country at climate talks in Baku, analysis finds

Cop summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, say leading climate policy experts

At least 1,773 coal, oil, and gas lobbyists have been granted access to the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, a new report has found, raising concerns about the planet-heating industry’s influence on the negotiations.