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DeBriefed 11 April 2025: Trump tariff chaos; Climate penalties for shipping; Why is biodiversity loss overlooked?
Welcome to Carbon Briefโs DeBriefed.An essential guide to the weekโs key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 11 April 2025: Trump tariff chaos; Climate penalties for shipping; Why is biodiversity loss overlooked? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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Q&A: Nations agree carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero
Nations have agreed to introduce a worldwide carbon-pricing system for international shipping to drive the... The post Q&A: Nations agree carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Loss and damage fund to hand out $250 million in initial phase
The fundโs board has agreed a plan for the start-up phase of the UN mechanism to help developing nations tackle the consequences of climate disasters The post Loss and damage fund to hand out $250 million in initial phase appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate and energy?
Since the German election took place in February, which saw the centre-right Christian Democratic Union... The post Q&A: What does the new German coalition government mean for climate and energy? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Global breakthrough to tackle shipping emissions
Countries break ten-year deadlock to agree measures to reduce commercial shipping emissions.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them
Ship owners who fail to reduce emissions intensity 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a "net zero fund" to clean up shipping through green fuels The post Governments agree green shipping targets and fees for missing them appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:A Year After a Fatal Explosion, Alabama Extends Deadline for Coal Companies to Monitor Methane Gas Above Mines
Undermined: Fifteenth in a series about the impacts of longwall mining in Alabama. JASPER, Ala.โVerby Burton said she wasnโt expecting much from Thursdayโs meeting of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, the agency tasked with regulating the surface impacts of underground coal mining in the state. โAnd thatโs exactly what I got,โ Burton said after the [โฆ]
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Starlings disappearing from gardens, says RSPB
The Big Garden Birdwatch survey recorded the lowest ever numbers of starlings this year.
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise
Ronald Silver II was just three hours into his shift collecting trash for the city of Baltimore when he started feeling bad and unsteady on his feet. The city had been under an extended โcode redโ extreme heat alert, and he still hadnโt recovered from a grueling shift a few days earlier, when temperatures hit [โฆ]
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:A Byproduct of Manure Runoff Is Polluting Drinking Water in Thousands of US Communities, According to a New Report
Tens of millions of Americans have likely consumed drinking water containing cancer-causing chemicals that form when livestock manure and other organic substances end up in public water sources, according to a new analysis. Thousands of industrial-scale farms across the country spray manure from livestock onto farm or other lands, which then runs off into waterways. [โฆ]
Published on: April 11, 2025 | Source:What goes on inside toddlers' brains? A pioneering project is trying to find out
A unique study is tracking the development of hundreds of babies whose parents have also been studied since birth.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Amid Questions of Loyalty to Trump, a Longtime Oil and Gas Advocate Withdraws as Nominee to Lead BLM
Kathleen Sgamma, an oil and gas advocate, has withdrawn from consideration to be director of the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency responsible for managing one-tenth of Americaโs land base, after her loyalty to President Donald Trump came under scrutiny. Her decision was announced at the beginning of a Senate Committee on Energy and [โฆ]
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:China and India defeat attempt to reveal how much each ship pollutes
The public will only be given emissions data in an anonymised form, making it harder for companies to choose green ships or port communities to judge health risks The post China and India defeat attempt to reveal how much each ship pollutes appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Survey: โVery fewโ Africans place responsibility for climate action on โrich nationsโ
A new survey reveals that โvery fewโ Africans place responsibility for climate action on โrich... The post Survey: โVery fewโ Africans place responsibility for climate action on โrich nationsโ appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Power-hungry AI data centres seen driving demand for fossil fuels
Big Tech's data centres are expected to use twice as much electricity by the end of the decade - mainly due to the global AI boom, the International Energy Agency says The post Power-hungry AI data centres seen driving demand for fossil fuels appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables?
A week of U.S. tariff pronouncements and responses from other countries has given the global economic order a wobble that resembles a Jenga tower. Even after President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would pause many of the tariff increases for 90 days, a universal tariff of 10 percent remains in place. These economic [โฆ]
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:In Alabama, a Fight for the Spotted Salamander
HOMEWOOD, Ala.โEllen McLaughlin said she wasnโt speaking for herself. โI speak for the salamanders,โ she told those gathered at a community meeting in late March. McLaughlin, a retired Samford University biology professor, was one of dozens who showed up at the Homewood Senior Center to express their frustration over a proposed โtown squareโ development that [โฆ]
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:โDeep Change Theoryโ Could Pull Us Out of a Global Climate and Pollution Crisis, Scientists Say
A team of international researchers published a new U.N. report Wednesday that adds to the rising scientific call for transformative societal and economic changes to staunch critical environmental threats like global warming, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss. โWe are still headed towards catastrophe,โ said lead author Caitlyn Eberle, an associate researcher at the United Nations [โฆ]
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:Beyond anxiety: Teensโ mental health suffers on Africaโs climate frontlines
As climate change impacts take a heavy toll on young people's wellbeing in poor rural areas, how can policymakers help them cope? The post Beyond anxiety: Teensโ mental health suffers on Africaโs climate frontlines appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 10, 2025 | Source:The plans to put data centres in orbit and on the Moon
Proponents say space-based data centres will be more secure, but sceptics say big hurdles remain.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Trumpโs Nominee for EPAโs Top Lawyer Advances Despite Scant Legal Qualifications
The Trump administrationโs choice for the Environmental Protection Agencyโs top lawyer has never taken a deposition, argued a motion or authored a legal pleading. On Wednesday, Republicans on a Senate committee advanced Sean Donahueโs nomination on a party-line vote. The EPA arm he would lead, the Office of General Counsel, oversees the enforcement of environmental [โฆ]
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:New global fund for forests is a bold experiment in conservation finance
If successfully implemented, the sovereign-backed investment fund - championed by Brazil - could generate far more money for tropical forests than traditional donor models The post New global fund for forests is a bold experiment in conservation finance appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Guest post: How to apportion โnet-zero carbon debtโ if global warming overshoots 1.5C
As global warming approaches the Paris Agreementโs 1.5C limit, the likelihood of at least a... The post Guest post: How to apportion โnet-zero carbon debtโ if global warming overshoots 1.5C appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:A New Michigan Law Countering Local Opposition to Renewable Energy Is Triggering More of the Same
Over the last decade, Michigan townships have put in place barriers to stop renewable energy developments in their tracks. Many of these moratoriums became moot last year through a state law that changed the siting process for large-scale wind, solar and battery storage projects. The law, Public Act 233, allows developers to directly petition the [โฆ]
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:'It looked possessed' - sick sea lions attacking beachgoers in California
A toxic algae bloom in southern California has sickened dozens of animals, causing them to have seizures and act erratically.
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:New Trump Orders Aim to Keep Coal Power Alive, Despite Climate and Economic Costs
As President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders Tuesday aimed at keeping coal power alive in the United States, he repeatedly blamed his predecessor, Democrats and environmental regulations for the industryโs dramatic contraction over the past two decades. But across the country, state and local officials and electric grid operators have been confronting [โฆ]
Published on: April 09, 2025 | Source:Royal Society of Biology mourns murdered scientist
A local mayor in Colombia offers a cash reward to help find Alessandro Coattiโs killers.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:UK investigating claims green fuel contains virgin palm oil
The BBC finds evidence of fraud in the production of a "green" diesel meant to cut emissions.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Tariffs Could Spike Rates in an Already Climate-Stressed Insurance Market
Over the past decade, climate-fueled extreme weather events and rising inflation have pushed the homeowners insurance market to the brink. Things stand to get even worse this year. A new report from insurance comparison agency Insurify projects that home insurance rates will rise by an average of 8 percent in 2025 across the U.S. States [โฆ]
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Governments set to agree fees for ships that miss green targets
But countries are still negotiating over the scale of the targets and fees, with small islands wanting high ambition and bigger nations resisting The post Governments set to agree fees for ships that miss green targets appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Analysis: Nearly 60 countries have โdramaticallyโ cut plans to build coal plants since 2015
Nearly 60 countries have drastically scaled back their plans for building coal-fired power plants since... The post Analysis: Nearly 60 countries have โdramaticallyโ cut plans to build coal plants since 2015 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Titanic scan reveals ground-breaking details of ship's final hours
The 3D replica corroborates eye witness accounts about what happened after the liner hit an iceberg.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Experts dispute claim dire wolf brought back from extinction
Independent experts say three white wolf puppies are not dire wolves, as claimed by US company Colossal
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Clean energy's share of world's electricity reaches 40%, report says
More clean electricity was generated in 2024 but there was a rise in the amount of coal and gas burnt too.
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source:Is Boliviaโs $1.2 Billion Deal to Protect Its Forests a Climate Boonโor a False Solution?
Sometime next month, the Bolivian government and a company you probably havenโt heard of are poised to offer what could be the largest single sale of carbon credits in history. The deal will be unusual not only for its sizeโ$1.2 billion, organizers saidโbut also because it will be backed by a national government and packaged [โฆ]
Published on: April 08, 2025 | Source: