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Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds 29/9/2025
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds Food and agriculture contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions – second only to the burning of fossil fuels. And yet the vast majority of media coverage of the climate crisis overlooks this critical sector, according to a new data analysis from Sentient Media. ...more
China leads nations with new climate plans, defying US climate denial 26/9/2025
China leads nations with new climate plans, defying US climate denial China led several countries in announcing new climate plans on Wednesday and offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president's anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly. ...more
China's new climate target 'falls well short,' EU says 26/9/2025
China's new climate target 'falls well short,' EU says China's new climate pledge "falls well short" and will make it harder to reach global targets to slow climate change, the European Union's climate chief said on Thursday, as the bloc struggles to agree its own emissions-cutting goal. ...more
Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows 26/9/2025
Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows New interactive map tracking PM2.5 air pollution reveals 900m people in path of ‘super-emitting’ industrial facilities. ...more
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life 26/9/2025
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed. ...more
Nature loss threatens 25% profit hit for mining, power firms, Barclays finds 26/9/2025
Nature loss threatens 25% profit hit for mining, power firms, Barclays finds Company earnings could fall by as much as 25% over five years due to nature degradation, Barclays said, as rising input costs and operational disruptions driven by policy changes and worsening environmental conditions begin to bite. ...more
Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis 25/9/2025
Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq's mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the apiaries that dot the riverbank is under threat. ...more
Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally 25/9/2025
Trump tells UN that climate change is 'greatest con job' globally President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions. ...more
Exclusive: Brazil's Lula announces $1 billion investment in global forest fund 25/9/2025
Exclusive: Brazil's Lula announces $1 billion investment in global forest fund Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced on Tuesday a $1 billion investment in the Tropical Forests Forever Facility, a multilateral funding mechanism it has proposed to support conservation of endangered forests, at a United Nations event in New York. ...more
EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show 25/9/2025
EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show Bloc urged to end ‘unethical double standard’ of allowing sale of products deemed too dangerous for EU farms. ...more
 
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