Week 24 - Climate news in one minute!
Week 24 - (Our) top 3 insights of this week
-?????UN to unmask fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks - At a preparatory meeting of the Bonn Climate Change Conference, UN delegates announced that oil, gas and coal representatives will have to disclose their industry ties at future climate meetings, starting COP28. Important to see how strictly it is followed but is at least the first step to limiting the influence of polluters.
Source: BBC
-?????A European Day for the victims of the global climate crises – EU Parliament is voting to commemorate the victims of the climate crises and highlight that it would help to raise awareness of the human lives lost and humanitarian crises caused by climate change. The resolution was adopted with 395 votes to 109 and 31 abstentions.
Source: EU Parliament News
-?????We've pumped so much groundwater that we've nudged Earth's spin – Scientists say, by pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimetres East between 1993 and 2010.
Source: American Geophysical Union
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