Claimants take UK government to court over inadequate climate adaptation 3/11/2023

When Kevin Jordan bought his seaside home in Hemsby, Norfolk, he was told it would be safe for a century. In the decade since, 17 of his neighbours’ homes have had to be demolished, or have been swept away into the waters of the North Sea. His is now just 5 metres from the fast-crumbling cliff, isolated and unreachable by car after part of the road collapsed into the North Sea. ...more

Indonesia says 200,000 hectares of palm plantations to be made forests 2/11/2023

Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted back into forests, a government official said late on Tuesday. ...more

Cigarette-style climate warnings on food could cut meat consumption, study suggests 2/11/2023

People are used to seeing stark warnings on tobacco products alerting them about the potentially deadly risks to health. Now a study suggests similar labelling on food could help them make wiser choices about not just their health, but the health of the planet. ...more

Baltic Sea faces ‘critical challenges’ on climate and biodiversity, report warns 2/11/2023

The Baltic Sea faces “critical challenges” due to the climate crisis and degradation of biodiversity, a report has said, as Sweden’s coastguard battled to contain the impact of an oil spill off the country’s southern shore. ...more

France is Europe’s biggest supporter of ‘carbon bomb’ projects, data shows 2/11/2023

France is Europe’s biggest supporter of “carbon bomb” extraction projects that hold enough fossil fuels to pump out more than a gigaton of CO2 each, the Guardian can reveal. ...more

Gold mining spreads mercury to tropical birds, study says 2/11/2023

Tropical birds, from kingfishers to wrens to warblers, are showing signs of mercury contamination as artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations reach deeper into jungles, new research finds. ...more

US EPA needs to phase out food waste from landfills by 2040 -local officials 1/11/2023

A group of local U.S. government officials from 18 states on Tuesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to phase out food waste disposal in landfills by 2040 to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane. ...more

Protectionism, short-term crises may delay path to net-zero, Statkraft says 1/11/2023

Global rivalries and ebbing political will to tackle the climate crisis could delay global emissions reduction efforts and make them more costly, Norwegian utility Statkraft said on Tuesday. ...more

Carbon emissions threaten 1.5C climate threshold sooner than thought - report 1/11/2023

Human fossil fuel emissions are threatening a key climate threshold more quickly than previously thought, a new report says. ...more

Banks pumped more than $150bn in to companies running ‘carbon bomb’ projects in 2022 1/11/2023

Banks pumped more than $150bn last year into companies whose giant “carbon bomb” projects could destroy the last chance of stopping the planet heating to dangerous levels, the Guardian can reveal. ...more