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6) www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nea...
7) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
8) www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
9) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Links Part 1
1) www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/m... and www.theguardian.com/environment/...
2) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/11/l...
3) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/11/g...
4) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/c...
5) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

9️⃣In Australia, the federal Coalition has clarified that it remains committed to the Paris Agreement, despite earlier comments from the shadow climate and energy minister, Ted O’Brien, indicating it could withdraw. The federal election in Australia will take place on 3rd May.

8️⃣Four Republican senators are asking Congressional leadership to preserve energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act since repealing them would disrupt investment and harm businesses and jobs. The letter came a month after a similar one by 21 Reps. in the House of Representatives.

7️⃣EU countries are projected to install a record amount of #renewableenergy capacity this year, although parts of the sector warned that cuts to government support could hamper this growth.

6️⃣Since the #ParisAgreement, nearly 60 countries have drastically scaled back their plans for building coal-fired power plants, including some of the world’s biggest coal users such as Turkey, Vietnam and Japan. South Korea, Germany and 33 other nations have eliminated coal from their plans entirely.

5️⃣The White House is ending funding for the body that produces the federal government’s pre-eminent climate report, which summarises the impacts of rising temperatures on the US. Until now, the US Global Change Research Program was required to release a new national climate assessment every 4 years.

4️⃣An attempt led by the EU to reveal how much pollution each of the world’s ships is causing failed after pressure from China and India. Govs. agreed instead to anonymise data on the carbon intensity of ships’ fuels & their emissions so that businesses & the public cannot identify individual vessels.

3️⃣At the International Maritime Organization (IMO) talks, govs. agreed on a set of annual emissions reduction targets for 2028-2035 with financial penalties for failing to meet them. Ship owners who fail to reduce the emissions intensity by 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a “Net Zero Fund”.

2️⃣At a three-day meeting in Barbados, the board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) agreed to spend $250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial set of interventions to help developing countries deal with the aftermath of climate-driven disasters.

1️⃣A leaked document reveals that a PR firm representing a meat and dairy industry coalition was behind a massive PR campaign to discredit the landmark Eat-Lancet Commission study (2019), which recommended an increase in the consumption of plant-based foods and a reduction of meat and sugar.

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Links Part 2
6) www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nea...
7) www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
8) www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
9) www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Links Part 1
1) www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/m... and www.theguardian.com/environment/...
2) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/11/l...
3) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/11/g...
4) www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/c...
5) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

9️⃣In Australia, the federal Coalition has clarified that it remains committed to the Paris Agreement, despite earlier comments from the shadow climate and energy minister, Ted O’Brien, indicating it could withdraw. The federal election in Australia will take place on 3rd May.

8️⃣Four Republican senators are asking Congressional leadership to preserve energy tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act since repealing them would disrupt investment and harm businesses and jobs. The letter came a month after a similar one by 21 Reps. in the House of Representatives.

7️⃣EU countries are projected to install a record amount of #renewableenergy capacity this year, although parts of the sector warned that cuts to government support could hamper this growth.

6️⃣Since the #ParisAgreement, nearly 60 countries have drastically scaled back their plans for building coal-fired power plants, including some of the world’s biggest coal users such as Turkey, Vietnam and Japan. South Korea, Germany and 33 other nations have eliminated coal from their plans entirely.

5️⃣The White House is ending funding for the body that produces the federal government’s pre-eminent climate report, which summarises the impacts of rising temperatures on the US. Until now, the US Global Change Research Program was required to release a new national climate assessment every 4 years.

4️⃣An attempt led by the EU to reveal how much pollution each of the world’s ships is causing failed after pressure from China and India. Govs. agreed instead to anonymise data on the carbon intensity of ships’ fuels & their emissions so that businesses & the public cannot identify individual vessels.

3️⃣At the International Maritime Organization (IMO) talks, govs. agreed on a set of annual emissions reduction targets for 2028-2035 with financial penalties for failing to meet them. Ship owners who fail to reduce the emissions intensity by 30% by 2035 will have to pay into a “Net Zero Fund”.

2️⃣At a three-day meeting in Barbados, the board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) agreed to spend $250 million until the end of 2026 on an initial set of interventions to help developing countries deal with the aftermath of climate-driven disasters.

1️⃣A leaked document reveals that a PR firm representing a meat and dairy industry coalition was behind a massive PR campaign to discredit the landmark Eat-Lancet Commission study (2019), which recommended an increase in the consumption of plant-based foods and a reduction of meat and sugar.

9️⃣Tesla sales have plummeted to their lowest level in three years after a backlash against its boss Elon Musk. In the first three months of 2025, Tesla delivered 337,000 electric vehicles, a drop of 13% from a year ago. In response to these numbers, Tesla shares tumbled.

8️⃣The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has discovered an oilfield in the South China Sea with proven reserves exceeding 100 million tonnes. It is not in a disputed part of the South China Sea and lies within China’s Exclusive Economic Zone.

7️⃣Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer. The study suggests average per person GDP across the globe will be reduced by 16% even if heating is kept to 2C.

6️⃣The world’s coal-fired power fleet inched up by 18.8 gigawatts in 2024, its lowest rise in two decades, but new additions in China and India continued to offset closures elsewhere. Global coal generation capacity is now 13% higher than it was when the Paris Agreement was signed nearly a decade ago.

5️⃣Finland’s last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production has shut down permanently. The country’s renewable power and heat production capacity has increased rapidly in the past few years, leading to a collapse in the use of coal after the previous gov. passed a law to ban coal from 2029.

4️⃣The White House is weighing an executive order that would fast-track permissions for deep-sea mining in international waters and let mining companies bypass a UN-backed review process.

3️⃣1,900+ members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine signed an open letter warning Americans about the “real danger in this moment” of the US administration’s relentless assault on US scientific institutions. The body was established by an act of Congress in 1863.