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Nat Burke
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Head of Regenerative Climate at WWF-Australia. Sea-grape enthusiast. Views here my own.
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A week of contrasting emotions. Devastating loss on enviro laws, big wins for renewables. Huzzah for FMIA and $$$ to retrofit social housing homes, but this will do little for the planet if not backed by strong, consistent enviro protections and rapid fossil fuel phase out wwf.org.au/news/2024/ww...
WWF welcomes $22 billion towards Australia becoming a Renewable Energy Superpower | WWF welcomes $22 billion towards Australia becoming a Renewable Energy Superpower | WWF Australia
While welcoming yesterday’s announcements, WWF-Australia Head of Regenerative Climate, Nat Burke, warned that the Future Made in Australia investments will only help address climate change if clean en...
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November 29, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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"This bad deal must not hold us back. We need to invest in our collective future.”

www.wwf.eu?15960941%2Fc...
COP29: Weak finance deal is a setback for climate action
The COP29 outcome risks setting back climate action at just the moment when accelerating it is most critical. After two weeks of tense and polarised negotiations, countries agreed a climate finance de
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November 25, 2024 at 12:43 AM
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Not surprising, but no less heartbreaking for its predictability.

“Powerful nations have shown no leadership, no ambition, and no regard for the lives of billions of people on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”

www.ldc-climate.org/press_releas...
COP29: A Staggering Betrayal of the World’s Most Vulnerable
PRESS ADVISORY Baku, Azerbaijan — 24th November 2024 | The LDC Group is outraged and deeply hurt by the outcome of COP29. Once again, the countries most responsible for the climate crisis have fai...
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November 24, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Australia must commit to 1.5 degree aligned climate action, to give the Great Barrier Reef a fighting chance.

That action includes a new Federal emissions reduction target of at least 90% below 2005 levels by 2035.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Graveyard of corals’ found after extreme heat and cyclones hit northern Great Barrier Reef
Marine scientists say one area around Cooktown and Lizard Island had lost more than a third of its live hard coral after bleaching event
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November 19, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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We need to decarbonise critical industries, but "we cannot address climate change by industrialising the biosphere."

Great @theconversation.bsky.social piece from Nathalie Seddon & @audreycwagner.bsky.social on why we need integrated climate-biodiversity action

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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other
In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.
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November 19, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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Please take some time to read about the origin of the 1.5C target. It didn't originate from naivety or stupidity. Those who put it forward certainly didn't see it as "pointless" then, and would probably still not.

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www.climatechangenews.com/2015/12/10/a...
Where did the number come from? Like most overnight successes, 1.5C’s rise to fame is built on years of careful groundwork. It has been a key demand of island states since at least 2008, when the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) wanted to know whether it should argue for more ambition in global climate talks. Podcast: Bangladeshi expert talks rich-poor tensions and 1.5C AOSIS commissioned work by scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on the impacts of a 2C rise. The conclusion was straightforward. As Tuvalu’s former negotiator put it: “It was clear that a global temperature rise above 2 degrees would be disastrous for Tuvalu.” The island nation decided it would support a limit “well below” 1.5C. Despite being the fourth smallest country in the world, Tuvalu caused a “furore” at the Copenhagen talks in 2009 by calling for the 1.5C limit with other AOSIS and African nations. At the time, the lower limit was widely perceived as unrealistic, and Tuvalu was even blamed for causing a split between developing countries at the conference, as richer nations including China and India did not support the 1.5 degree target. According to one account of the final hours of the Copenhagen conference, Chinese delegates argued that the 1.5 limit should be removed from the text. President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives fought back, asking: “How can you ask my country to go extinct?”
November 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM