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Protesters in Pikachu costumes demand Japan end fossil fuel financing at UN climate conference

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference Friday to send Japan a message: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and elsewhere

The Independent UK

Can the world quit coal?

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there is plenty of frustration that the world isn’t making progress on climate change fast enough.

The Conversation

South Korean growers sue state power utility, blaming climate change for crop damage

Rice farmer Hwang Seong-yeol and four other South Korean growers have sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corp. and its power-generating subsidiaries, alleging their reliance on coal and other fossil fuels has accelerated climate change and damaged their crops

The Independent UK

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Libs making 'same mistakes' after dumping net zero

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Liberals' climate policy will do little in helping the coalition win back ground to form government.

AAP

Doubts over Libs gas edict while pledging emissions cut

The opposition leader maintains the Liberals care about the environment and cutting emissions as she hits the road to sell a watered-down climate policy.

AAP

The world’s carbon emissions continue to rise. But 35 countries show progress in cutting carbon

Global fossil fuel emissions are projected to rise in 2025 to a new all-time high, with all sources – coal, gas, and oil – contributing to the increase.

The Conversation

Body of trapped worker found inside flooded West Virginia coal mine after he endured 6 days in complete darkness

Holes were drilled in the mine and dive teams have explored potential areas where air pockets might exist

The Independent UK

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IEA heralds 'the Age of Electricity' while warning that oil may not be peaking in 2030 after all

The International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook still sees a pathway to mitigage "the most severe risks from climate change."

Fortune

Rising electricity demand drives urgent need for diverse, resilient energy, IEA says

Renewable energy, led by solar power, will grow faster than any other major source in the next few years, the annual outlooks says.

Euronews

Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people

Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

The Guardian - US

Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan releases debut solo single - complete with video filmed in abandoned coal mine

Jay Buchanan's debut solo album, Weapons Of Beauty, was written in a windowless, underground bunker deep in the Mojave Desert

Louder

The Liberal party’s betrayal of younger voters on net zero isn’t just a moral failure – it’s electoral stupidity

For a Coalition desperate to prove it can govern again, ignoring millennials and gen Z is a curious kind of strategy

The Guardian - AU

From Trump’s wrecking ball to China’s electrifying rise, geopolitics hang heavy over this year’s climate talks

Next month marks the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, hailed as humanity’s best shot at keeping climate change under control. Between then and now, the world has changed dramatically.

The Conversation

The spectacular nonsense of the Coalition’s internal brawl over the 2050 net zero emissions target

The public stoush is really about whether the party will drop the charade or maintain it while shuffling some words

The Guardian - AU

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Crisafulli declares end to ‘cannoli diplomacy’ with Albanese over lack of hospital funding – as it happened

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AAP

Liberals risk joining 'baddies' with fossil-fuel push

Australia cannot pull out of the Paris Agreement, a Liberal frontbencher has declared, as his party prepares to face off over climate and energy policy.

Everybody Loves Your Money

6 School Lessons That Are Scientifically Wrong

Remember sitting in class, staring at a chalkboard, taking notes because you were absolutely convinced that every single thing your teacher said was fact? We all learned certain “truths” in school that were presented as unquestionable, universal, carved-into-stone knowledge. But it turns out, a surprising number of those so-called facts…

The Guardian - US

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

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Reason

Review: When the Government Sent a Photographer To Document Living Conditions in Coal Towns

Russell Lee's 1946 photographs shows the squalor coal miners and their families lived in before mechanization.

The Independent UK

Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the 'working man'

Lisa Emery, a respiratory therapist, is deeply concerned about West Virginia coal miners suffering from black lung disease

The Conversation

Own goal: why the Nationals’ retreat on net zero would be bad economics

Australia’s National Party has ended its commitment to reaching net zero by 2050.

AAP

Coal mine expansions 'real concern' under proposed laws

Local communities will bear the brunt of climate harms caused by new coal mine expansions if tougher approvals are not introduced, a legal expert says.

Roll Call

Interior adds phosphate, potash to final critical minerals list - Roll Call

The Interior Department announced an updated critical minerals list that includes coal, phosphate and potash, key ingredients for fertilizers.

The Independent UK

China, world's top carbon pollutor, likely to overdeliver on climate goals. Will that be enough?

Experts say China is likely to exceed its modest climate goals, but question if it will be enough to help the world curb warming

The Conversation

How the US cut climate-changing emissions while its economy more than doubled

Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions – and global temperatures with them – keep rising.

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