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30 September 2021 - NPWJ News Digest on Environmental Justice & Human Rights
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UN climate talks a 'catalyst' for action to curb warming -report
Reuters, 30 Sep 2021
United Nations climate talks in November are a crucial catalyst for urgent action to keep a lid on global warming, a global coalition of 40 energy producers, industrial companies and financial institutions said on Thursday. An Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) report outlined six actions which need to be agreed at COP26 and implemented this decade to give the world a 50% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius and a 90% chance of keeping it below 2C.
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Greece: After fires, experts sound alarm over grim climate future
Al Jazeera, 29 Sep 2021
Climate experts say last month’s wildfires that razed 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of Greek forest are only a small sampling of the environmental and economic devastation the country will face due to a warming planet this century. The fires came in the wake of a heatwave, repeating a pattern seen in two other nationwide conflagrations in 2007 and 1987; and the phenomenon is worsening, geophysicist Christos Zerefos told Al Jazeera.
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New FAO report highlights urgent need to restore Africa’s degraded landscape
UN News, 29 Sep 2021
Launched during Africa Climate Week, and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the Review of Forest and Landscape Restoration in Africa 2021, shows, that more needs to be done to tap the continent’s opportunity to return land to sustainable production, protect biodiversity, and shield livelihoods in the battle against climate change.
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Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal
The Guardian, 28 Sep 2021
Eastern Kuku Yalanji people will take formal ownership of the world heritage-listed Daintree tropical rainforest in northern Australia, after the Indigenous traditional owners reached a historic deal with the Queensland government. The Daintree national park is part of 160,108 hectares (395,467 acres) of land that will be handed back to the traditional owners at a ceremony on Wednesday at Bloomfield, north of Wujal Wujal.
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How German coalition wrangling could affect COP26 mood
Euroactiv, 28 Sep 2021
It was called Germany’s climate election. After deadly floods in July sharpened the focus on the climate emergency, all parties vied for green votes. But when it comes to the UN climate talks in Glasgow in November, the path has largely been set by the outgoing government. Germany was always expected to be represented by a caretaker government at COP26.
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‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis
The Guardian, 28 Sep 2021
Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”. She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.
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Italy's 'Smart Bay' seeks to tackle Mediterranean climate change
Reuters, 27 Sep 2021
On Italy's Ligurian coast, biologists and environmentalists are working to tackle the effects of climate change in the Mediterranean with help from a so-called "Smart Bay". Marine biologists fear the Mediterranean is becoming hotter and more acidic, which would affect the habitat of many native species and also lead to violent changes in weather systems such as more frequent tornadoes.
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Vanuatu to seek international court opinion on climate change rights
The Guardian, 26 Sep 2021
Vanuatu will ask the International court of justice for an advisory opinion on the rights of present and future generations to be protected from climate change. With a population of about 280,000 people spread across roughly 80 islands, Vanuatu is among more than a dozen Pacific island nations facing rising sea levels and more regular storms that can wipe out much of their economies.
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