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Debt costs overshadow climate finance in small island states-report

Small developing island states heavily exposed to the effects of climate change and often in critical debt situations spend at least 18 times more on debt servicing than they receive in climate finance, a report showed.

Reuters

New Zealand proposes taxing cow burps, angering farmers

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change

The Independent UK

Axa to focus on Asia for long-term growth

Southeast Asia, Greater China and Japan will remain the three pillars of Axa Group as it grows its business in the coming years, the Paris-based insurer says, noting that the Thai insurance industry is poised for an upward growth trend from 2022 onwards.

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Hurricane Ian shows that coastal hospitals aren’t ready for climate change

As rapidly intensifying storms and rising sea levels threaten coastal cities from Texas to the tip of Maine, Hurricane Ian has just demonstrated what researchers have warned: Hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. are not ready for climate change.

Tribune News Service

Indigenous peoples' climate dilemma: To go or not to go

As climate change displaces millions, Indigenous communities grapple with an impossible choice.

Axios

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan's floods

The devastation wreaked by floods in Pakistan this summer has intensified the debate over a question of climate justice: Do rich countries whose emissions are the main cause of climate change owe compensation to poor countries hit by climate change-fueled disasters

The Independent UK

Spiked wind speed and even higher storm surges: What a warmer world means for hurricanes

This year, major storms hit from the Philippines in the western Pacific to the Canary Islands in the eastern Atlantic, and the Canadian Maritimes in the high latitudes.

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Experts attack government inaction over energy-saving guidance

‘Advice is the very minimum’ ministers should be providing in crisis, says climate change specialist

The Guardian - UK

Protecting Biodiversity an Important Environmental Challenge, Says Egypt's Environment Minister

Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad stressed that protecting migratory birds and biodiversity is one of the global and regional environmental challenges that Egypt is keen to address during the UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP27). She made her remarks at the opening of the regional conference organized…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Scientists predicted how much higher seas will rise due to ice melt — it's grim

Recent climate research published in Nature Climate Change has confirmed that melting icecaps in Greenland will contribute to a minimum of 27 centimeters rise in ocean levels.

Inverse

Can cheese combat climate change?

These Vermont cheesemakers think so

Salon

World Bank chief says will keep 'intense' focus on addressing climate change

World Bank President David Malpass said on Friday that he was keeping an "intense" focus on the bank's efforts to address climate change and was embracing the U.S. Treasury's call to dramatically boost lending capacity to address this and other global problems.

Reuters

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Egypt Replants Mangrove ‘Treasure’ to Fight Climate Change Impacts

On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a program to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totaling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres),…

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The Guardian - UK

England recorded 2,800 excess deaths in over-65s during 2022 heatwaves

Calls for government to take action now to prevent further unnecessary deaths next summer

Evening Standard

60 tiny things about life right now that drive me stark raving mad

Everything is awful. War, falling living standards, anthropogenic climate change. So here, in no particular order, is a list of profoundly unimportant things about being free and alive in 21st-century London that annoy me and, I hope, will come to annoy you:

Daily Record

Climate change group needs to do more in Dumfries and Galloway, insists councillor

A cross-party working group set up to tackle major environmental issues cannot just be a 'talking shop', says Gail Macgregor

The Independent UK

UK offers new North Sea oil, gas licenses despite opposition

The British government has opened a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas exploration, despite criticism from environmentalists and scientists who say the move undermines the fight against climate change

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The new plan to fight a coral reef disease devastating the Caribbean

Some say NOAA's new plan to tackle a coral disease in the Caribbean might not come fast enough.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago homeowners welcome energy-efficient upgrades in green push

With a new $3 million grant, nonprofit Elevate is targeting 100 low-income homes over two years, replacing natural gas appliances with electric units as Illinois phases out fossil fuels that contribute to climate change.

ABC News

Alarm bells of a 'climate sub-prime' facing finance, as insurance on home loans gets tricky

The insurance industry admits that some parts of the country will become increasingly difficult to insure as extreme weather takes hold. What does this mean for bank loans that are underwritten by them and prospective homebuyers taking them out?

The Texas Tribune

EPA will center climate change response in Texas on sea level rise, floods, drought and severe storms

The federal agency plans to increase efforts to help states adapt to the effects of climate change most damaging to each region.

The Conversation

Climate change: the fairest way to tax carbon is to make air travel more expensive

Despite the fact that poorer people generally have lower emissions, taxes on the carbon dioxide (CO₂) our activities emit tend to affect people on low incomes more than richer people. Having less money means you can ill afford a switch to an untaxed alternative, like an electric car, or pay…

Reuters

Caribbean countries to seek 'loss and damage' as top priority at COP27, document says

Caribbean nations will unite to seek "loss and damage" compensation for the impact of climate change at the upcoming COP27 climate talks in Egypt, according to a report summarizing conclusions of a recent regional summit.

Tribune News Service

Forestry leaders scramble to turn massive new funding into trees

MISSOULA, Mont. — Foresters, nursery managers and urban planners have long sought funding to grow more trees, replant burned areas and help marginalized communities prepare for the effects of climate change.

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