Yesterday, the High Court in London ruled that highly controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport were “illegal”, due to the fact that the British Government had not adequately taken climate change into account when approving the runway.
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Another “huge win” as Equinor pulls out of drilling the Australian Bight
The Norwegian company, Equinor, has announced it was abandoning plans to drill for oil in the highly ecologically sensitive, Great Australian Bight, which has been a battleground between conservationists and the industry for years.
Big climate win after Teck withdraws its own massive tar sands mine application
This is what climate momentum looks like. Teck Resources has just withdrawn its C$20 billion application to build what was the largest ever tar sands mine in northern Alberta.
Scientists: “We’d never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica”
This is the first time ever that the 20 degrees barrier has been broken on the continent. “We’d never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica,” says Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer.
Hey Justin: Why are you jailing “loving grandmas” in the name of a gas pipeline?
Canada may be helping put out the flames in Australia, but back home Trudeau is setting light to our climate.
$900 Billion “will be wiped off value of Big Oil if we restrict CO2 rise to 1.5C”
According to the Financial Times “Around $900bn – or one-third of the current value of big oil and gas companies – would evaporate if governments more aggressively attempted to restrict the rise in temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the rest of this century.”
In Oz, bushfire victims file complaint against bank for financing “climate wrecking projects”
“Australia is burning and yet ANZ continues to invest billions of dollars in climate wrecking projects. It is illegal for someone to light a bushfire, and we believe it is illegal for companies to finance the burning of our common home. This case is one of many to come against climate criminals”.
Outgoing BP Executive Would Rather See BP Survive, Than the Planet
Decades after BP became aware about the serious consequences of climate change, and as the world faces a climate emergency, the company’s outgoing boss, Bob Dudley, seems more content about saving BP, than the planet itself.
Denial to the Death: In Australia, Newspaper Headlines Tout “Warming Is Good For Us”
On the frontlines, the certainty of before has given way to the uncertainty of the future. But the fossil fuel machine continues to churn and burn.
The world is on fire, but all Trump offers is a mop and bucket
Greta Thunberg told delegates at Davos that “Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour.”