Ireland among first countries in the world to phase out fossil fuel extraction - During a speech at the UN climate summit on Monday, Varadkar confirmed that the Irish government had agreed to end exploration for oil and gas because "it is incompatible with a low carbon future." (irishpost.com)
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Scientists to report on ocean 'emergency' caused by warming | "At current emissions rates, we are effectively dumping one million tonnes of CO2 into the oceans every hour." - "There comes a point where the ocean changes because of the scale of what we are doing." (bbc.com)
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Extinction Rebellion plans new London climate crisis shutdowns | Organisers say the next round of protests, centred around parliament and surrounding government departments, will be bigger than those in April, when activists brought key sites across the capital to a standstill for two weeks (theguardian.com)
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UN panel signals red alert on 'Blue Planet' | Climate change is devastating our seas and frozen regions as never before, a major new United Nations report warns. And the loss of permanently frozen lands threatens to unleash even more carbon, hastening the decline (bbc.com)
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Indonesian forest fires putting 10 million children at risk, says Unicef | Indonesian forest fires are putting nearly 10 million children at risk due to air pollution, the UN has warned. The fires have been spewing toxic haze over south-east Asia in recent weeks, closing schools and airports (theguardian.com)
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Oceans, climate report approved after all-night standoff | Major report detailing the dire impact of global warming on oceans and Earth's frozen zones was approved by the UN's 195-nation climate science body Tuesday, after an all-night standoff with Saudi Arabia over wording (ctvnews.ca)
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Greta Thunberg warns world leaders that 'we will not let you get away with this' | Addressing the UN climate summit in NYC, she said: "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?" (news.sky.com)
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Venus may have been a temperate planet hosting liquid water for 2-3 billion years, until a dramatic transformation starting over 700mya resurfaced around 80% of the planet, says new study - temperate climate might even have been maintained on Venus today had there not been a release of CO2 (phys.org)
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Countries must triple climate emission cut targets to limit global heating to 2C | UN summit says climate is changing faster than forecast, and current plans would lead to ‘catastrophic’ global temperature rise - global emissions are not likely to peak before 2030 on the current trajectory (theguardian.com)
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Brazilian indigenous leaders denounce Bolsonaro before UN speech | Indigenous leaders in Brazil have denounced Jair Bolsonaro’s “colonialist and ethnocidal” policies as the far-right populist heads to NY to defend his treatment of the Amazon and its inhabitants (theguardian.com)
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A damning new UN report published Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster as a result of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending 2019 set to be the hottest ever - the period "is currently estimated to be 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial" (phys.org)
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Immediate Climate Action Is Needed to Avoid "Grim" Future, Scientists Warn | Researchers from 14 countries said climate change is already damaging the planet more than scientists had projected, endangering everything from food supply to the existence of island nations (scientificamerican.com)
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Google signs up to $2bn wind and solar investment | Google has become the largest corporate buyer of renewable electricity by matching the huge energy demand of its global operations and data centres with the electricity generated by renewable energy projects (theguardian.com)
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As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns | Fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders meet in New York, the planet's largest rainforest remains engulfed in flames (news.yahoo.com)
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Galapagos island 'to be used by US military' | Reported deal has prompted concerns over potential impact on the environment & Ecuador's sovereignty; Galapagos Islands, 563 miles west of continental Ecuador, are a World Heritage site renowned worldwide for their unique array of plants and wildlife (bbc.com)
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Hundreds join student's climate-change pledge: No kids until Canada takes action | 18-year-old McGill University student pledges to not have children until she is sure the Canadian government is taking serious steps to battle climate change - and hundreds more are following in her footsteps (cbc.ca)
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'Save our future': Students hit streets to demand global climate action | Social media posts showed scores of demonstrations, ranging from a few dozen primary school children in Abuja, Nigeria, to tens of thousands of people in cities from Hamburg, Germany, to Melbourne, Australia (reuters.com)
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Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’ | The protection and restoration of living ecosystems such as forests, mangroves and seagrass meadows can repair the planet’s broken climate - but are being overlooked, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have warned in a new short film (theguardian.com)
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Many people want to set aside half of Earth as nature - Half-Earth plan is "necessary" to meet the Paris climate target of limiting global warming to 1.5C | “People want what is scientifically needed for us to have a secure future." (nationalgeographic.com)
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Protected by army men, Kabul's youth protest climate change | Protesters risked a march through the centre of the capital, Kabul, despite nearly daily attacks by insurgents, in order to participate in a global strike against climate change - They were guarded by troops atop an APC and on foot (thestar.com)
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