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‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens | Europe | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2023/mar/04/very-precarious-europe-faces-growing-water-crisis-as-winter-drought-worsens

After its driest summer in 500 years, much of Europe is in the grip of a winter drought driven by climate breakdown that is prompting growing concern among governments over the water security for homes, farmers and factories across the continent.

A study published in January by Graz University of Technology in Austria, whose scientists used satellite data to analyse groundwater reserves, concluded that Europe has been in drought since 2018 and its water situation was now “very precarious”.

Torsten Mayer-Gürr, one of the researchers, said: “I would never have imagined that water would be a problem here in Europe, especially in Germany or Austria. We are actually getting problems with the water supply here. We have to think about this.”

Satellite Data Shows Sustained Severe Drought in Europe
https://www.tugraz.at/en/tu-graz/services/news-stories/media-service/singleview/article/satellitendaten-belegen-anhaltend-schwere-duerre-in-europa

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Too late to save environment, says Green Party co-founder - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64815875

One of the founders of what would become the Green Party of England and Wales has declared "it's too late" to save the environment.

Michael Benfield, who helped set up the new political movement in the 1970s, said he believed the "battle for the world's environmental survival" was "at this moment, lost".

Speaking at an event to mark the party's 50th anniversary, Mr Benfield told the BBC he had become "somewhat of a doomsayer" about efforts to protect the environment.

Justice key to live within Earth system boundaries — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/justice-key-to-live-within-earth-system-boundaries

Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries | Nature Sustainability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01064-1

Living within planetary limits requires attention to justice as biophysical boundaries are not inherently just. Through collaboration between natural and social scientists, the Earth Commission defines and operationalizes Earth system justice to ensure that boundaries reduce harm, increase well-being, and reflect substantive and procedural justice. Such stringent boundaries may also affect ‘just access’ to food, water, energy and infrastructure. We show how boundaries may need to be adjusted to reduce harm and increase access, and challenge inequality to ensure a safe and just future for people, other species and the planet. Earth system justice may enable living justly within boundaries.

Metody

On March 28, the U.S. Federal Budget request for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY2023) was released, officially kicking off the Congressional budget season and the ensuing posture testimonies, staffer briefs, and associated deep dives into the details of the budget. With that first release, however, the Department of Defense (DoD) had not yet made available the budget details – instead providing just an information appetizer in the form of an overview slide deck. The slides indicated that the DoD characterized $3.1 billion of its budget request as “climate investment” in four categories: Installation Resiliency and Adaptation ($2 billion); Science and Technology ($807 million); Operational Energy and Buying Power ($247 million); and Contingency Preparedness ($28 million). These categories roughly line up with similar categories from FY2022 but represent significant increases in each. The FY2022 budget identified $617 million in similar categories. That said, while the categories remain the same, the contents are slightly different and it is hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison between the two.

As of April 21, however, the Pentagon has now released the first-ever detailed justification book on DoD climate spending that outlines these investments across 42 pages. (If you want the one-page summary, you can look at page 4-17 of the Budget Request Overview.) This provides the details and various accounts that indicate how the Department calculated the $3.1 billion.

Unpacking the Pentagon’s $3.1 Billion Climate Request « The Center for Climate & Security
https://climateandsecurity.org/2022/05/unpacking-the-pentagons-3-1-billion-climate-request/