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1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that's curbed oil demand – IEA
https://electrek.co/2024/03/02/1-in-5-new-car-sales-globally-in-were-evs-in-2023-oil-demand-iea/

The bad news is that energy-related emissions rose in 2023. But the good news is that continued expansion of clean energy technologies meant that global energy-related emissions rose less strongly than in 2022, even as total energy demand growth accelerated.

Emissions increased by 410 million tonnes, or 1.1%, in 2023 – compared with a rise of 490 million tonnes the year before – taking them to a record level of 37.4 billion tonnes.

An exceptional shortfall in hydropower due to extreme droughts in the US, China, and several other economies resulted in over 40% of the rise in emissions in 2023 as countries turned largely to fossil fuels to plug the gap. Had it not been for the unusually low hydropower output, global emissions from electricity generation would have declined in 2023, making the overall rise in energy-related emissions significantly smaller.

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Advanced economies saw a record fall in their emissions in 2023 even as their GDP grew. Their emissions dropped to a 50-year low while coal demand fell back to levels not seen since the early 1900s.

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Jak uvádí Pavel Zahradníček z CzechGlobe na svém účtu X, máme za sebou nejteplejší zimu v Brně za celou dobu měření s odchylkou +4,6°C oproti období 1961-1990. Únor byl naprosto nevídaným extrémem s odchylkou 7,6°C a oproti druhému pořadí byl vyšší o více než dva stupně. Poslední výrazně chladná zima byla v roce 2006 a únor v roce 2018.

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Česko se otevírá budovám ze dřeva. Nově se smí stavět do výšky sedmi pater — Forbes
https://forbes.cz/cesko-se-otevira-budovam-ze-dreva-nove-se-smi-stavet-do-vysky-sedmi-pater/

Dřevo dokáže výborně pohlcovat emise oxidu uhličitého a jeho použití jako stavebního materiálu je oproti betonu či oceli mnohem ohleduplnější k životnímu prostředí,“ vyjmenovává Josef Wiedermann výhody domů budovaných z CLT panelů.

Například v projektu Timber Praha, stavaři použili 1800 metrů krychlových smrkového a modřínového dřeva z Česka, Rakouska a Německa, které na sebe váže 1800 tun uhlíku. To při porovnání s tradiční stavbou znamená snížení emisí skleníkových plynů přibližně o šedesát procent. Kromě toho dřevo umí stabilizovat klima a vlhkost v místnosti a lépe tepelně izoluje.

Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction | Rice | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/risotto-crisis-the-fight-to-save-italys-beloved-dish-from-extinction-aoe


In 2022, the worst drought in 200 years hit the Po, Italy’s longest river. The waterway forms the lifeblood of a complex web of canals built between the Middle Ages and the 1800s, which serve as the paddy fields’ main source of irrigation. That year, Italy lost 26,000 hectares (64,000 acres) of rice fields, according to Ente Nazionale Risi, the national rice authority, and rice production dropped by more than 30%. Last year, the drought persisted and the crop from another 7,500 hectares of rice fields was lost.

Today, rice farmers struggling to recover from the impact of the drought face an uncertain future. “The higher the temperatures, the more frequent and intense these extreme events will be,” says Marta Galvagno, a biometeorologist at the Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley.

Over the past two years, Ferraris, like other farmers in the area, has tried to diversify his crops to reduce the risks brought by the climate crisis. He has reduced the acreage dedicated to paddies and started to grow crops such as maize, that require less water.

“The climate is changing and I am afraid there will be other droughts,” says Ferraris, whose farm lost about €150,000 [£129,000] in 2022. Rice remains his biggest crop, however. Recently, he has started monitoring snowfalls in the Alps and checking the water levels in Lake Maggiore every day. “It’s hard to sleep at night,” he says.

Ferraris is particularly worried about the production of carnaroli classico, a refined rice variety. Thanks to its ability to resist high cooking temperatures and absorb flavours, carnaroli is considered the “king of risotto”, but it is also extremely delicate and vulnerable to changes in the climate.

Russian Environmental Politics
State, Industry and Policymaking
Russian Environmental Politics | State, Industry and Policymaking | El
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315166438/russian-environmental-politics-ellie-martus

Fossil fuels account for over three-fourths of greenhouse gas emissions (IEA, 2021), fueling
a climate crisis that is projected to devastate ecosystems and communities across the globe
(IPCC, 2022; Rinawati et al., 2013). Fossil fuel production is already at a historic high,
and is poised to continue growing (SEI and UNEP, 2021). Global fossil fuel production is
known to have myriad adverse impacts on people and the environment (But et al., 2013).
Many of the reserves targeted for extraction lie in highly sensitive ecological areas (Harfoot
et al., 2018), with countless other upstream and midstream fossil fuel projects posing
risks. In view of the extent of the adverse social, climate and ecological threats of fossil fuel
production, we are promulgating a spatial mapping approach and accompanying openaccess web platform (www.fossilfuelatlas.org) for creating scientifcally grounded maps
and other information-rich visuals that make transparent the threats posed by current
and prospective fossil fuel production. In partnership, Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI), Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and the Institute for Governance and Sustainable
Development (IGSD) are operationalizing this Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-
based approach through a global open-access, on-line transparency platform, the Fossil
Fuel Atlas, in collaboration with a growing community of stakeholders—including civil
society organizations and decision-makers—who are addressing fossil fuel extraction at
local to international scales.

https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fossil-fuel-atlas-global-brief.pdf

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Italská rozvědka tvrdí, že Rusko vede proti zemi hybridní válku. Zejména jde o šíření dezinformací o protestech farmářů. Píše o tom italská tisková agentura ANSA na základě výsledků prezentace výroční zpravodajské zprávy v parlamentu. „Rusko je nejaktivnějším hráčem v hybridních kampaních na úkor Itálie a celého Západu,“ píše se ve zprávě. Hlavními nástroji Ruské federace jsou špionáž, kybernetické útoky, dezinformace a využívání migračních toků k destabilizaci politické situace. Tajemník Rady ministrů Alfredo Mantovano řekl, že poslední epizoda ruských dezinformací souvisí s protesty farmářů proti „greendeal“ a zemědělské politice Evropské unie. Zpravodajské zdroje navíc uvádějí, že Ruská federace svými nástroji silně ovlivňuje nadcházející volby do Evropského parlamentu, plánované na začátek června.


Russian hybrid campaign agst Italy eyes vote - intelligence - TopNews - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2024/02/28/russian-hybrid-campaign-agst-italy-eyes-vote-intelligence_7633ce09-1d37-4d15-8235-be2fed9597df.html

EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 | Sustainable development goals | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/28/eu-countries-already-hitting-some-of-their-sustainable-energy-targets-for-2030

Several European countries hit some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 a decade early, a study has found, but big gaps remain across the board.

Progress on SDG 7 achieved by EU countries in relation to the target year 2030: A multidimensional indicator analysis using dynamic relative taxonomy | PLOS ONE
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297856