The EU is likely to miss the UN’s climate pledge deadline as member states remain divided on emission cuts https://t.co/frDnm0t8lJ ...

Climate Risk and Adaptation - Australia has committed 6 billion USD over the next five years to climate adaptation spending [1] - The potential damage bill to infrastructure and property could run into the hundreds of billions of dollars [3] - The amount of adaptation spending required is determined by the amount of warming Australia and the world faces [4] Emissions Targets and Decarbonization - Australia is committed to achieving a 43% reduction on 2005 level greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 [6] - The Climate Change Authority has recommended a target between 65% to 75% below 2005 levels by 2035 [7] - To stay on a pathway of about 1.75 degrees Celsius of warming, Australia's energy-related emissions would need to fall by about 70% on 2005 levels by 2035 [8] Economic Opportunities and Risks - A higher emissions reduction target of 75% versus 65% would reap additional benefits to the Australian economy [12] - Australia has huge resources in lithium and other critical minerals, setting it up to become a clean energy superpower [14] - Insurance costs in Australia due to extreme weather events are around billions of dollars [17] - Extreme weather events have had a real drag on the nation's economy, which will become unmanageable by late this century if action isn't taken [18]

The opportunity of nuclear, particularly in our world of AI. How quickly do you think it'll be brought online in the US or indeed the UK. Because your timeline is fast, it seems.It's aggressive, Caroline And that's President Trump. He came in all in on nuclear energy. And we will have reactors the next generation, small modular reactors critical next year. In fact, I'm pretty confident we'll have one of them before July 4th of next year and several more during the year.No, it's not the back ended electricit ...

Water the elixir of life. The problem is too much of it is chaos. Too little of it is the same.2015 the monsoon had failed. 2016 the city of Burggawi had a water scarcity which was unprecedented. That's when a few people got together and brought out that thing that's taught to everybody in school.When you have more trees, you have more rain. Very childish a thought. But then I guess nothing beats the truth of the innocence of a child who believes that the world can change.And so we believed and we set foot ...

The opportunity of nuclear, particularly in our world of AI. How quickly do you think it'll be brought online in the US or indeed the UK. Because your timeline is fast, it seems.It's aggressive, Caroline And that's President Trump. He came in all in on nuclear energy. And we will have reactors the next generation, small modular reactors critical next year. In fact, I'm pretty confident we'll have one of them before July 4th of next year and several more during the year.No, it's not the back ended electricit ...

Have you ever heard of a forest being compared to broiler chicken? I have. I'll tell you the story. It happened in 2013. My wife, my son and I, we were in Paramikulum Tiger Reserve in Paramikum town. I wanted a cup of tea and this elderly tea seller called me into his shop and he asked me when I went in he asked me what I do for a living. I said I write on the environment at that time. He pointed Yeah. He pointed to the he pointed to the forest in front of the front of him and said in malalam I'm sure a lot ...

Hello, hello, hello. Good, good, good. Yeah, thank you guys for coming out on a Friday.I know this is school is not the place you necessarily want to be. Um, and I have a confession which is that I am significantly lazier than the previous speakers who had their talking points all in their mind. I'm going to be reading off page.Uh, so bear with that. So, there is an ancient folklore about a hummingbird that comes from the Ketwa people in the Andes Mountains of Peru. For those of you who remember Ishmael fro ...

Rising seas threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050 - report https://t.co/x3uaIUxMst ...

The Panama Canal is one of the world's most vital shipping routes. About 14,000 vessels transit the waterway annually, including about 40% of all U.S. container traffic. But recent droughts have plagued the artery.A drought in 2023 and 2024 forced the canal's operator, the Panama Canal Authority, to enact weight restrictions and limit vessel transits to 18 ships per day. About 36 ships crossed the canal daily. The drought was Panama's worst in over 70 years.But how does a 50 mile long waterway connected by ...

The Trump administration has proposed ending a program that requires power plants, fossil fuel refineries and the oil industry to report their yearly climate pollution https://t.co/ZuuP0kECa7 ...