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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.

👏 Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

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Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

🚨 Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points

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The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what? The Emissions Gap Report 2025 reveals that says that global temperatures are on track to exceed the most ambitious end of the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.

🚨 How many times does this need to be said? “Every fraction of a degree of warming we avoid means climate change will be less severe.”

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🤦 Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood and smashing windows and threatening shop owners,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island

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'Blood rain' and diseases in the wind: Is the US prepared for deadly dust storms? Dust storms are sweeping across the world, harming the health of millions of people. Now, scientists are racing to keep the dirt on the ground.

🌎 'Blood rain' and diseases in the wind: Is the US prepared for deadly dust storms?

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Global power demand surge puts net zero by 2050 out of reach as world heads toward 2.6°C warming, says Wood Mackenzie Surging power demand and mounting geopolitical tensions have made 2050 net zero goals unattainable, with the world now on track for 2.6°C of global warming, according to Wood Mackenzie's 'Energy Trans...

🌏 Global power demand surge puts net zero by 2050 out of reach as world heads toward 2.6°C warming

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🇪🇺 EU Countries Agree on 90% Emissions Reduction Target for 2040

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😕 UN Sees World’s Emissions Falling 10% by 2035, Far Short of 60% Goal

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Oil firm TotalEnergies made misleading green statements, court rules French multinational is ordered to remove its website messages about aiming for carbon neutrality

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Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

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Commission steps up efforts to lower energy prices with a set of actions to bring relief to industries and consumers Commission steps up efforts to lower energy prices with a set of actions to bring relief to industries and consumers

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Commission steps up efforts to lower energy prices with a set of actions to bring relief to industries and consumers

European Parliament rejects simplified sustainability requirements Lawmakers rejected part of a simplification package, as the centrist majority was defeated by nine votes

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The vote comes amid mounting pressure from some EU member states to pass the bill and from the US and Qatar to scale back the EU's due diligence law contained in it, which in their view risks disrupting liquefied natural gas trade with Europe.

👀 BlackRock’s GIP Joins Exxon in Backing New CO2 Accounting Model

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👏 Major Australian Coal-Fired Station Gladstone Set to Close Six Years Early

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💩 Trump’s Tariff Fight With China Means Trouble for a Vast Wilderness in Brazil

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Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables

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DOE floats new cuts to hundreds of clean energy grants The Department of Energy is proposing major new cuts to hydrogen and air capture hubs.

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All these cuts are decimating research, education, clean energy development, GHG management and most importantly jobs.

Salesforce shifted its 2030 climate goals while going all in on AI Salesforce, the $38 billion enterprise software company, updated its emissions plan and set a new 2030 target it looks likely to reach as early as next year.

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⚡️ AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 "Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

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Trump's Energy Department forbids staff from saying ‘climate change’ or ‘green’ | TechCrunch A Trump appointee emailed Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy employees last week with a long list of banned words.

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Antioch's new $116M desalination plant will produce 6M gallons of drinking water per day - Local News Matters A LONG-ANTICIPATED DESALINATION PLANT that will convert the mixture of salt and fresh water known as brackish water from the San Joaquin River mouth into

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🌬️ Orsted Venture Wins Court Ruling to Restart Work on Wind Farm

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🌏 China Pledges to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 7% to 10% by 2035

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China Energy Transition Review 2025 | Ember China’s surge in renewables and whole-economy electrification is rapidly reshaping energy choices for the rest of the world, creating the conditions for a decline in global fossil fuel use.

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2025 Report - Production Gap

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Twenty top polluting nations—including China, India, and the US—plan to boost fossil fuel output beyond 2023 levels. By 2030, global production could exceed twice the amount aligned with the 1.5°C climate goal.

Lights Out — OLYMPIC PENINSULA AUDUBON SOCIETY Lights Out

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Artificial Lights have Devastating Effects on Birds (Learn more)

The Bright Side: Earth's ozone layer is healing thanks to international action, UN says The Earth's protective ozone layer is on track to fully recover by mid-century, according to a report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization released Tuesday. The bulletin hailed the success…

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Yet the reality is that China is “jumping into the vacuum left by the United States with its rejection of climate science and international development assistance."

Judge allows Trump to cut more than $1bn in National Science Foundation grants Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grants

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