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Hitting Paris climate target will create 8 million jobs by 2050, but Australia could miss out
Reaching the Paris climate target will not only save the earth from catastrophic climate change it will also create eight million jobs by 2050, new research shows.
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Hitting Paris climate target will create 8 million jobs by 2050, but Australia could miss out
Reaching the Paris climate target will not only save the earth from catastrophic climate change it will also create eight million jobs by 2050, new research shows.
For cities, climate adaptation has a new urgency
A new report argues that cities must assume a wartime footing to protect critical infrastructure and prepare for a more dangerous future.
The Guardian view on the climate summit: 100 days to save the world
Guardian editorial
Floods, fires and droughts show the global urgency. But the prospects are not looking good for the COP26 conference
Where is Biden’s climate change ‘revolution’?
Spencer Bokat-Lindell
The clock is ticking.
We are fiddling while the world burns, floods and chokes
Eugene Robinson
Scientists are starting to ask whether we’ve already reached a tipping point on climate change. The rest of us need to take the possibility seriously.
The left is the only reason we’re talking about climate change at all
Kate Aronoff
It’s become fashionable to suggest climate activists are too hard on Joe Biden. Being hard on Joe Biden is what got climate spending into the infrastructure package.
Max Opray
A slow-moving heat dome is bringing record-breaking temperatures to the northern hemisphere. Climate scientists are alarmed by how bad it is – and what might follow in Australia.
National
Gang-gang cockatoo set to be listed on threatened species list as endangered
The federal Environment Department is considering whether to include the gang-gang cockatoo on the threatened species list.
Mark Gibbs
Extreme floods this month have been crippling cities worldwide. This week in China’s Henan province, a year’s worth of rain fell in just three days. Last week, catastrophic floods swept across western Germany and parts of Belgium. And at home, rain fell in Perth for 17 days straight, making it the city’s wettest July in 20 years.
Katharine Murphy
If Scott Morrison is inclined to execute the pivot he’s spent months telegraphing – towards net zero by 2050 – a report out this week contains some helpful fodder
The world gallops to Glasgow while Australia trundles the other way
Nick O’Malley
Countries are acting with increasing urgency on climate change. Australia is not among them.
Liberal Party are intergenerational thieves
John Wren
Liberal Party policies are designed against the well-being of future generations in order for the current generation to live comfortably.
Saturday Paper editorial
As you read through the latest intergenerational report, the section on climate change stands out for the simple reason that it contains no projections. The numbers exist, just as they do for population growth and productivity, but they are not included.
Victoria
Major blunder in city bike lane plan revealed [$]
Melbourne city’s bike lanes were rapidly expanded in the height of the pandemic without traffic modelling — meaning the impacts of lockdown on the CBD weren’t considered.
New South Wales
‘Give us renewables, but don’t do it here’, say Nundle environmentalists [$]
It’s an old fight with an unexpected twist: environmentalists battling against a multinational energy company seeking to bulldoze untouched wilderness to construct a major infrastructure project.
Queensland
Great Barrier Reef avoids UNESCO ‘in danger’ tag after Australia says it makes ‘no sense’
The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to UNESCO’s “in danger” list this year, after environment minister Sussan Ley’s whirlwind diplomatic effort won enough support to override the UN body’s scientific advisers.
Climate emission fix is already here, says CleanCo
About 80 per cent of Queensland’s carbon emissions could be avoided through existing technology that could be implemented and repaid by 2050, according to a Government run energy company.
Push for electric car requirement in new homes [$]
With electric cars becoming more popular, the Palaszczuk Government says it would be “a level of insanity” if new Queensland builds weren’t required to include this.
Heat is on Australia to act on climate following World Heritage Reef decision
The pressure to act urgently on climate change and water quality is piling on the Morrison government following the World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting to discuss the status of the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Marine Conservation Society said today.
Truth casualty of politics as UNESCO Great Barrier Reef decision flouts reality
The World Heritage Committee’s failure to officially declare the Great Barrier Reef “in danger” is a missed opportunity to shine a light on the Australian Government’s neglect of a natural wonder that remains at great risk due to the impacts of climate change, according to Greenpeace.
Great Barrier Reef is under threat – this is how we’re saving it
Media statement – Great Barrier Reef Foundation
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation will continue working tirelessly to develop bold, innovative new solutions to save our Reef.
Great Barrier Reef: Snorkel diplomacy sways UNESCO [$]
Graham Lloyd
Snorkel diplomacy has delivered the Morrison government a stay of execution on the Great Barrier Reef being declared in danger. But a fierce campaign waged by opponents has exposed the lengths to which green groups will go in their bid to usurp national control of climate action.
Future Fund’s Adani investment supports Myanmar coup
David Kinley
Australia’s Future Fund is still investing in Adani Ports whose contracts with the Myanmar military are worth $290 million.
South Australia
Solar farm proposed for the South East [$]
An Adelaide-based business has unveiled a plan to build a renewable energy facility on Millicent farmland.
Salt threat to mangroves rising after rain [$]
More than a year after an independent scientist alerted the authorities to problems at the St Kilda mangrove trail, no action has been taken against the company and the salt threat is edging closer after recent rains
Northern Territory
Transformation of Parliament House carpark to public green space begins in Darwin CBD
Works to transform a 90-bay carpark near Parliament House into a green space for community events and activities are now under way, with builders PTM Group starting construction last week.
Western Australia
Kings Park ‘open to consider’ cable car concept [$]
A new five-year master plan for Kings Park does not rule out the prospect of a cable car link to the Swan River.
Plan to dump rig near Ningaloo may breach law
Australia could be in breach of international law if it allows oil and gas giant Woodside to dump a 2,529-tonne steel and plastic mooring next to the Ningaloo World Heritage Area, according to legal advice obtained by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
Sustainability
Group says tighter radiation controls of drilling waste needed
The patchwork of radiation protection laws for oil and gas waste in the U.S. is “inconsistent,” said an official with the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, which provides expertise on radiation protection for a number of different industries.
How to green the steel industry? Start with steel buyers
As we push to decarbonize heavy industry, it helps to start with an industry’s customers.
Eric Dean Wilson on air-conditioning and climate change
In conversation with Eric Dean Wilson, a professor who investigates the history and impact of artificial cooling on the environment.
Nature’s Paris moment: does the global bid to stem wildlife decline go far enough?
There are concerns a new UN biodiversity framework is not ambitious enough and calls for Australia to take a leading role
Deadly coral disease sweeping Caribbean linked to wastewater from ships
Researchers find ‘significant relationship’ between stony coral tissue loss disease and nearby shipping
The pandemic poaching pandemic
In Costa Rica, Panama, and elsewhere, COVID-19 lockdowns caused suddenly desperate people to begin poaching sea turtle eggs and meat, threatening hard-won conservation achievements.
This is the first ecosystem with its own insurance policy
A 100-mile stretch of coral reef in Mexico is now insured just like any other valuable asset. Is this the future of conservation?
We need to figure out what’s happening to the bugs — before it’s too late
John Terborgh, David S. Wilcove
Insect populations appear to be experiencing sharp declines — and we still don’t know precisely why.
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