Daily Archives: September 17, 2022

2022-09-17: News Headlines

____ (2022-09-17). China's carbon neutrality can mitigate global warming: study. ecns.cn Chinese researchers recently published an assessment of the mitigation of China's carbon neutrality to global warming, noting that the country's efforts can mitigate global warming by 0.48 and 0.40 degrees Celsius under intermediate and very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Oil & Gas Action Network (2022-09-17). Tuesday 9/20: Send a Message to Chase: Stop Funding Climate Chaos. indybay.org Chase Center ‚Ä¢ 1 Warriors Way, San Francisco, CA 94158 US…

Jon Queally (2022-09-17). 'We Don't Owe Joe Manchin Anything!' Opposition to Dirty Side Deal Grows. commondreams.org "The science is clear," said one climate campaigner. "If we want a habitable planet, we cannot afford this dirty deal."

Center for Biological Diversity (2022-09-17). Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Fisher. indybay.org Rare Forest Carnivore Threatened by Logging, Climate Change, Poison…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-09-16). Climate Instability Worldwide: Does the US Military "Own the Weather"? "Weaponizing the Weather" as an Instrument of Modern Warfare? globalresearch.ca Weather-modification, according to the US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, "offers the war fighter a wide range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary", capabilities, it says, extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes…

Sergio Ferrari (2022-09-16). Multinationals Impose Their Law on Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Sergio Ferrari Sep 7, 2022 | In the last 30 years, the pressure of foreign investors against Latin American states has been increasing day by day, and the number of lawsuits for "non-compliance" on their part has multiplied. Up from six known cases in 1996, there are now 1,190. | Throughout that period, these countries were condemned to pay $33.6 billion, which thus vanished from the public coffers. According to the Transnational Institute (TNI) based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, this figure represents a third more than the losses due to the impact of climate catastrophes on the continent between 197…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). Germany Confiscates Oil Refinery Owned by Russian Rosneft. telesurenglish.net On Friday, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) announced that its country took control of a major refinery owned by Russian oil company Rosneft. | RELATED: | Rosneft Deutschland and RN Refining & Marketing, two German subsidiaries of the Russian company, have been placed under the trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency. The Agency will now take over the PCK refinery in Schwedt, by far the bigge…

TeleSUR (2022-09-16). Zambia Rallies Africa for Common Voice at Climate Negotiations. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Zambian government called for closer collaboration among African countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in advancing mutual interests ahead of the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) slated for Egypt in November this year. | RELATED: | The Minister of Green Economy and Environment Collins Nzovu said as chair of the Af…

Jeffrey D. Sachs (2022-09-16). Pakistan's Devastation Is Just a Preview of the Future—and the Biggest Climate Polluters Must Pay Up. commondreams.org The developing world will not forget the leading role that industrialized economies have played in permanently altering the climate and making catastrophic events more likely.

Julia Conley (2022-09-16). Pakistan Floods Made Worse By Climate Crisis and Inequality: Study. commondreams.org "As climate-related losses rapidly mount, global demands for climate justice will only grow," one expert said.

David Sirota (2022-09-16). The Missing Data Behind Manchin's Dirty Pipeline Deal. levernews.com

Climate Nexus (2022-09-16). Biden announces floating offshore wind projects, which could power five million homes. peoplesworld.org The Biden administration committed Thursday to build enough floating offshore wind capacity by 2035 to power five million homes. The 15GW by 2035 target is in addition to the administration's goal of installing 30GW of traditional offshore wind by 2030. Floating offshore wind is still an emerging technology, producing 0.2% of global offshore wind power, …

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