COP28: Report says UAE is trying nearly 90 detainees on terror charges during COP28 summit (AP), The Chinese and American climate negotiators pushing for a deal (Wall Street Journal $), ‘End fossil fuels' protester storms stage of COP28 summit (Reuters), Agreeing to agree: Everyone must come to consensus at COP28 climate talks, toughening the process (AP), As COP28 negotiators wrestle with fossil fuels, activists urge them to remember what’s at stake (AP), PHOTOS: At UN climate talks in Dubai, moments between the meetings (AP), Ping-pong, ice pops and the planet’s fate: inside COP28’s final hours (Washington Post $), COP28 comes at a ‘moment of both hope and peril’ (New York Times $)
CLIMATE JUSTICE: Poor countries need trillions of dollars to go green. A long-shot effort aims to generate the cash (AP)
BIG OIL: Biden’s new offshore ally: Oil majors (E&E News), Making oil is more profitable than saving the planet. These numbers tell the story (NPR)
CITIES & STATES: Mass. efforts to limit natural gas could serve as national model (E&E $), Heart of Hawaii’s historic Lahaina, burned in wildfire, reopens to residents and business owners (AP), Two Nashville churches, wrecked by tornadoes years apart, lean on each other in storms’ wake (AP), New Mexico, the No. 2 oil-producing US state, braces for possible end to income bonanza (AP), The pandemic gave Maine a population boom. Will climate change be next? (Portland Press Herald), Georgia's CO2 emissions efforts need more sunshine, expert says (Axios)
INT’L: China is close to peak emissions, but it doesn’t want to talk about it (Washington Post $)
EVS: North Carolina’s billion-dollar bet on an EV outsider (Wall Street Journal $), Ford cuts planned 2024 production of electric F-150 Lightning in half (CNBC), VW considering cooperation with Renault on 20,000-euro electric car -Handelsblatt (Reuters), Why Volkswagen is building a team of 3,000 engineers in China (New York Times $), In 2023, bold EV strategies took a punch from reality (Reuters), As Chinese electric vehicles go global, legacy automakers find reducing costs ‘is now more important than anything else’ (Fortune), As California transitions to electric vehicles, a Sacramento high school will start training students as EV technicians (Capital Public Radio)
RENEWABLES: COP28 plan to triple renewables is doable, but not easy, companies say (Reuters), Why didn’t China and India sign COP28 tripling renewables pledge? (Climate Home), Europe’s largest rocket travels on a wind-powered cargo ship (CNN)
IMPACTS: The severe El Niño in South America is a preview of a climate-changed world (Vox), The weather is getting cold. Global warming is still making weather weird (USA Today)
HYDROGEN: Hydrogen with CCS more expensive than expected — report (E&E $)
HEALTH: Climate change is unleashing a tsunami of infectious diseases–and we have fewer and fewer drugs that can treat them (Fortune)
WORKERS: UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C (The Guardian)
FINANCE: WTO chief urges countries to prioritise subsidies that tackle climate crisis (The Guardian), COP28: Norway gives $50 mln to Brazil Amazon fund as deforestation falls (Reuters), Invest in nature? Might be possible with ‘natural asset companies.’ (E&E News)
OCEANS: Work to resume at Tahiti’s legendary Olympic surfing site after uproar over damage to coral reef (AP), From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise (AP)
COURTS: The legal battles changing the course of climate change (BBC)
(GOP) DENIERS: Vivek Ramaswamy called ‘the climate change agenda’ a hoax in Alabama’s first-ever presidential debate. What did University of Alabama students think? (Inside Climate News), Ron DeSantis pitches nationwide school choice, mirroring Iowa and Florida laws (Des Moines Register)
FOOD: Asia lags behind pre-pandemic levels of food security, UN food agency says (AP)
HOUSING: Millions of U.S. homes risk disaster because of outdated building codes (Scientific American), Climate change is breaking insurance. Here’s how tech could save it. (Wall Street Journal $)
KIDS: Kids in Los Angeles fight climate change by tackling food waste at school (NPR)
PROTESTS: Italian climate change protesters turn Venice's Grand Canal green (Reuters)
CRITTERS: Wildlife photographer shows the impact of climate change on animals at COP28 meeting (NPR)
IN MEMORIAM: Remembering Saleemul Huq, the man who changed the conversation about climate change (NPR) |
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