The Independent (2023-12-23). Nuclear Made Historical Entry Into Energy Transition At COP28. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The agreement by close to two hundred countries that they should transition away from burning the fossil fuels that are warming the planet overshadowed the call for nuclear energy. With most of the delegates at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) settling down, parties like Uganda have to further …

Joanna Palmer, Highlights 2023 contributors (2023-12-23). Perspectives] Highlights 2023: capturing diverse health stories. thelancet.com In The Lancet's 200th anniversary year we publish these photographs for Highlights 2023. Unlike previous years, we did not hold a competition for Highlights, but instead we publish a selection of photographs that frame diverse health stories. Some pictures focus on individual stories, bringing a personal focus to a health topic, and others highlight community and health-care settings. A number of the photographs speak to some of the Spotlight themes of The Lancet's 200th anniversary year: the importance of universal health coverage, health and climate change, research for health, mental health, and child and adol…

Joanna Palmer, Jessamy Bagenal, Beth Francis, Maneet Virdi, Chloe Wilson (2023-12-23). Comment] Winner of the 2023 Wakley Prize Essay: the importance of universal health coverage. thelancet.com Earlier this year we invited submissions for the 2023 Wakley Prize Essay1 and were impressed by the thought-provoking submissions from diverse settings. Although essays could be on any health topic, we encouraged submissions about the five Spotlights of The Lancet's 200th anniversary year—universal health coverage, health and climate change, research for health, mental health, and child and adolescent health. It was a pleasure to read the wide-ranging essays on these themes and we thank everyone who entered the competition this year.

Center for Biological Diversity (2023-12-23). Lawsuit: Huge California Reservoir Proposal Threatens River, Climate, Fish. indybay.org WOODLAND, Calif., December 20, 2023 — Conservation and environmental justice groups filed a legal challenge today to the largest reservoir project approved in California in decades. The Sites Reservoir would harm the Sacramento River ecosystem, threaten already imperiled fish species, and release greenhouse gas pollution, today's lawsuit says.

ecns.cn (2023-12-23). Underground heat pipe breaks in Beijing; repairs underway. ecns.cn An underground heating pipeline broke early Friday beneath a major street in Beijing's Dongdan area, causing hot steam to escape and impacting local traffic.

The Canary. (2023-12-21). Activists Block Several Airports In Belgium — Ground Private Jets. popularresistance.org On Saturday 16 December, supporters of campaign group Code Rouge-Rood from several European countries entered Là¨ege Airport in a peaceful direct action to denounce the injustice and climate impact of aviation and demand a drastic reduction of flights | This happened just after hundreds of activists were arrested around Antwerp, while preparing to block Antwerp International airport, one of the biggest private jet airports in Belgium. Despite police targetting activists, a large group managed to enter Antwerp Airport and achieved success: no private jets took off from Kortrijk or Antwerp today.

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. (2023-12-21). Americans Abandoning Neighborhoods Due To Rising Flood Risk. popularresistance.org As flooding becomes more common due to the shifting and strengthening weather patterns and sea-level rise associated with climate change, so does climate migration. | New research by the First Street Foundation (FSF) has combined historic population change trends with flood risk data to reveal climate migration patterns happening in areas with high flood risk across the United States. | "Much of the world's population is exposed to some kind of extreme weather event exacerbated by climate change. These events have been directly connected to impacts on human systems including economic, social, and political crises…

ecns.cn (2023-12-21). UN official: Climate change an important part of regional cooperation. ecns.cn "Countries must speed up implementing their commitment to achieving national net zero targets, accelerate the deployment of renewable energy and low carbon technology,and foster regional and international cooperation," said Armida Alisjahbana, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).

Mike Garrity (2023-12-21). Protect Habitat to Fight the Climate Crises and Recover Endangered Species. counterpunch.org It's puzzling why news about the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act has tended to quote those wanting to change or repeal this landmark environmental law or say species threatened by climate change are doomed to extinction. A recent example would be the comments by Holly Doremus, a professor at University of California's Berkeley

World Meteorological Organization (2023-12-21). World: Guidelines for the WMO Evaluation of Records of Weather and Climate Extremes. reliefweb.int

Juan Cole (2023-12-21). How Big Oil is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride. counterpunch.org A recent opinion poll rocked the world of the Big Oil lobbyists in their proverbial thousand-dollar suits and alligator shoes. The Pew Research Center found that 37% of Americans now feel that fighting the climate crisis should be the number one priority of President Joe Biden and Congress, and another 34% put it among their highest priorities,

Binoy Kampmark, Counter Punch. (2023-12-20). False Transitions And Global Stocktakes: The Failure Of COP28. popularresistance.org The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows how a worthless activity, caked (oiled?) with appropriately chosen words, can actually provide assurance that something worthwhile was done. Along the way, there are always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists. | COP28, which featured 97,000 participants, including the weighty presence of 2,456 fossil fuel lobbyists, was even more of a shambles than its predecessor. Its location — in an oil rich state — was head scr…

Ibrahima Hathie, DeSmog. (2023-12-20). At COP28, Family Farmers Who Feed The World Went Unheard. popularresistance.org In the run-up to this year's COP28 summit in Dubai, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres railed against the scourge of global hunger and climate devastation fuelled by farming. | "Global food systems are broken, and billions of people are paying the price," he said — and he was right. | Our food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet fails to feed the world, with a tenth of humanity experiencing hunger. | For years, this issue has been sidelined at climate summits, but at COP28 it was catapulted to centre stage, with an entire day of the agenda dedicated to food and agric…

Ben Bartee (2023-12-20). Propaganda Roundup: Hillary Claims Climate Change‚Ñ¢ Targets Pregnant Women. globalresearch.ca

Pressenza New York (2023-12-20). Offshore wind power can help reduce greenhouse gases. pressenza.com All emerging nations, not just our own, struggle with electricity. And the straightforward explanation that electricity is either not available or not available by demand, etc., is often given. Scientists have taken the initiative to develop a new device that uses the temperature differential between the European deep sea and the surface to create power, to avert this electrical crisis. They have achieved a completely sustainable and continuous electricity supply by addressing climate change. For the benefit of the free market economy, there is a growing demand for and use of alternative fuels, particularly as th…

Brent Patterson, Peace Brigades International-Canada. (2023-12-21). Calgary-Based Subsidiary Partners In Building US' Mountain Valley Pipeline. popularresistance.org The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a 482 kilometre (300 mile) pipeline being built across West Virigina and Virginia to transport fracked gas. WGL Midstream, a subsidiary of Calgary-based AltaGas, owns 10 per cent of this USD $6.6 billion pipeline. | The Natural Resources Defense Council says: "It has been estimated that the full life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (excluding construction emissions) generated by the MVP mainline alone would be almost 90 million metric tons annually. This is equivalent to the emissions from 23 average U.S. coal plants."

NEOB (2023-12-20). NERSA welcomes imprisonment of criminals damaging Transnet infrastructure. sanews.gov.za NERSA welcomes imprisonment of criminals damaging Transnet infrastructure | The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has welcomed the arrest and successful prosecution of criminals tampering with the Transnet pipeline to steal petrol and diesel. | In two separate matters, a thief was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for damaging essential infrastructure, while in another, two men were sentenced to 10 and 15 years, respectively, for theft of fuel. | Regulator Member Primarily Responsible for Petroleum Pipelines Regulation at NERSA, Muzi Mkhize, said: "We commend the law enforcement agencies for the…