Though is old news for #Maine, I learned today that the attack on the EPA means that the state has lost 62 million dollars in solar grants. It’s criminal. #climatepolicy

Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30 https://arstechni.ca/hPrB #amazonrainforest #climatepolicy #syndication #Science #Brazil #cop30

The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law

https://www.somo.nl/the-secretive-cabal-of-us-polluters-that-is-rewriting-the-eus-human-rights-and-climate-law/

#HackerNews #USPolluters #EUClimateLaw #HumanRights #EnvironmentalJustice #ClimatePolicy

Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow & Jack Ewing report on a stunning development: Trump plans to dismantle Biden’s climate initiatives by weakening mileage standards for EVs, calling them a 'scam.' This proposed rollback could increase our reliance on gasoline and significantly hinder progress toward a clean energy future. Discover the full implications of these potential changes by reading more here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/climate/trump-fuel-economy-car-rules.html #ClimatePolicy #CleanEnergy #EVs

Spencer Kimball and Phil LeBeau report President Trump proposes slashing Biden's fuel efficiency standards from 50 mpg to about 34 mpg by 2031, a significant step back for climate progress. This rollback raises serious concerns for environmental and consumer costs. Read more for full details: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/trump-fuel-economy-standards.html #FuelEconomy #ClimatePolicy #AutomotiveIndustry

“Thailand has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 47% by 2035 from 2019 levels”

“The cabinet has set out plans for carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under Thailand’s first formal climate change legislation.”

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3148729/carbon-taxes-part-of-new-thai-climate-law

#Climate #Thailand #Law #ClimateLaw #ClimatePolicy #Asia

A good analysis of how the #pipeline agreement between #alberta and #Ottawa affect #Canada 's #ClimatePolicy

#cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #climateaction

https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-alberta-pipeline-grand-bargain/

COP30 ends with mixed results, historic win for just transition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1408244/cop30-ends-with-mixed-results-historic-win-for-just-transition/

“COP30 was yet another ‘theater of delay’ with endless discussions, and the creation of yet more administrative duties, ‘solely to avoid the actions that matter—committing to a just transition away from fossil fuels and putting money on the table.’” 😢

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #COP30 #COP30Belem #FossilFuelPhaseOutNow #ClimatePolitics #ClimatePolicy #UnitedNations

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22112025/cop30-backpedals-on-climate-action/

Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/trump-emissions-policy-could-cause-climate-deaths

#climatechange #trumpadministration #climatepolicy #globalwarming #environment #anticlimateagenda

Global disillusion with climate policy and investment schemes

Big players missing from the conference shows the disconnect between policy and action. Financial schemes, not solutions, dominate.

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Global disillusion with climate policy and investment schemes

The lack of leadership at the conference and the skepticism surrounding climate policies highlight deepening global disillusionment.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered methods to model the Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science. Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-climate-scientists-saw-the-future-before-it-arrived-20250915

#SyukuroManabe #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #AtmosphericModeling #NobelPrize #ClimateResearch #ClimateAction #EarthScience #EnvironmentalImpact #GreenhouseEffect #ClimateModeling #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #EarthSystemScience #ClimateChangeAwareness #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateInnovation #IPCC #ClimateSolutions #ClimatePolicy #SustainableFuture #CarbonFootprint #GreenTech #EnvironmentalProtection #ScientificBreakthroughs #EarthObservations #ClimateSkeptics #FutureOfEarth #COP30

Sustainable water usage for data centres

“Data centres must make maximising recycled water in their operations a top priority, and source their electricity from 100% renewable sources.”

~ Lord Mayor of #Sydney, Clover Moore

#DataCentres #Australia #ClimatePolicy #AI #OpenAI #Amazon #Emissions #Electricity #Renewables #Sustainability

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australian-cities-lead-global-push-to-green-the-data-centre-boom-20251106-p5n84o.html

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Even during the dying days of the 2009 Turnbull era, #Coalition #ClimatePolicy extended as far as tepid support for the deeply flawed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme introduced by #KevinRudd and his #ALP government.

Rudd's #CPRS had a 2050 emissions target of a measly 60% reduction from 2005 levels, had no mechanism for increasing ambition, grandfathered in a generous gift of pollution certificates to the worst polluters, and did nothing about Australia's massive and rapidly growing #DirtyEnergy exports (Australia's worst climate crime, dwarfing domestic emissions—a grand atrocity yet to be addressed in earnest by either side of the duopoly).

But the CPRS was nonetheless a climate policy with mechanisms that might have actually reduced Australia's domestic emissions over time, something the Coalition have never embraced in the almost-sixteen years since then.

Dropping the #NetZero2050 fig leaf is on brand.

(NB Once Abbott rolled Turnbull, PM Rudd could have easily passed his signature legislation if he had been at all willing to negotiate with the Greens under #BobBrown, who would have voted for the CPRS as literally better-than-nothing, with just one or two small tweaks—tweaks later conceded by #JuliaGillard in minority government. But Rudd wouldn't even talk to Brown.)

On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.

That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.

There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).

So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).

The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.

#Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

The Liberal Party has agreed to formally abandon its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, a day…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Climatechange #climatepolicy #coalition #Emissions #federalgovernment #liberalparty #liberals #netzero #parisagreement #Politics #sussanley
https://www.newsbeep.com/247091/

South Korea sets its 2035 greenhouse gas reduction target at 53–61% below 2018 levels, reflecting broad social consensus and a more ambitious climate policy.
#YonhapInfomax #GreenhouseGasReduction #NDC #SouthKorea #CarbonNeutrality #ClimatePolicy #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=90111

#Dublin #Energy #AI #Amazon #Datacenter #Ireland #powergrid #Climate #climatechange #climatepolicy #ClimateEmergency

US-EU tensions rise as American negotiators accused of pressuring diplomats to block maritime pollution tax

Classic strong-arm tactics disguised as diplomacy. The U.S. bullying its allies to stall climate action just shows where their loyalties lie—profit over planet. Hard to talk about global cooperation when one side keeps playing corporate enforcer.

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