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Damian Carrington
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In case this week's record-breaking heatwave and/or criticism of net zero from Tony Blair have you thinking about the status of climate change in British politics, I did some polling:
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As Tony Blair challenges net zero amid a record-breaking May heatwave, new data on what British voters think about environmental policy
Cattle to get TB vaccine from 2030 under ‘game-changing’ strategy as badger cull nears ends
- Eradication attempts have seen many thousands of cattle and badgers killed but the new strategy is a step change, says the government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Singapore Brings Back 19th-Century Tech to Beat Warming Climate - District Cooling
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HT @carbonbrief.org
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Surprise!
Airline industry chiefs say 2050 net zero goal now unlikely
- Iata boss Willie Walsh blames [ ... everyone else ... ] saying new ‘realistic timeline’ now needed
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness, says @adamtooze.bsky.social
- Clean power is within our reach — yet factories sit idle
#energycrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/b6ca...
Ironic - Forest fires forced Canadian oil sands companies to cut about 7% of the country's overall crude oil output in 2025
#climatecrisis
ca.news.yahoo.com/sudden-outbr...
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
- JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Christian leaders alarmed by #climatecrisis raise 'serious questions' over GB News owner’s £28m church donations
- Sir Paul Marshall’s climate views and those broadcast on GB News said to be ‘in direct opposition’ to those of Church of England
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Severe’ stress on #oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns
- Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and #climatecrisis, World Ocean Assessment says
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Saudi Arabia scores lowest of all 48 nations, combining the most severe projected warming, the highest fossil fuel dependency and a net zero target not until 2060"
#climatecrisis
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
Matthew Barnfield
Damian Carrington
Targeted vaccination and improved testing planned as part of drive to eradicate disease by 2038
Deep underneath Singapore’s northeastern district of Punggol, a five-kilometer network of metal pipes roars as it pumps chilled water to cool offices and classrooms overhead.
