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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects | Insects | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

The declines witnessed by Janzen – and described by others around the world – are part of what some ecologists call a “new era” of ecological collapse, where rapid extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.

Reports of falling insect numbers around the world are not new. International reviews have estimated annual losses globally of between 1% and 2.5% of total biomass every year.

“But what we see here in the preserved areas – that as far as we can tell, are free of even these destructive insecticides and pesticides – even here, the insect numbers are going down horrifyingly dramatically,” she says.

Long-term data for insect populations – particularly less charismatic species – is still patchy, but Janzen and Hallwachs join a number of scientists that have recorded huge die-offs of insects in nature reserves around the world.

They include in Germany, where flying insects across 63 insect reserves dropped 75% in less than 30 years; the US, where beetle numbers dropped 83% in 45 years; and Puerto Rico, where insect biomass dropped up to 60-fold since the 1970s. These declines are occurring in ecosystems that are otherwise protected from direct human influence.

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies | MIT Technology Review
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies
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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide | Nature Climate Change
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/two-thirds-of-global-heating-caused-by-richest-study-suggests

Výzkumníci z Mezinárodního institutu pro aplikovanou systémovou analýzu (IIASA) se v nové studii pokusili zmapovat, jak se příjmové nerovnosti a s nimi spojená vyšší či nižší spotřeba podílejí na klimatické změně.

Zjistili, že desetina nejbohatších lidí na světě je odpovědná za dvě třetiny globálního oteplení zaznamenaného od roku 1990.

Desetina nejbohatších přispěla sedmkrát více než průměr k celosvětovému nárůstu měsíčních extrémních teplot, jedno procento nejbohatších dokonce 26krát.

Zato 50 procent nejchudších obyvatel se na globálních emisích podílelo pouze z jedné desetiny.

Jak napsal server The Guardian, předchozí studie již dříve prokázaly, že skupiny s vyššími příjmy do atmosféry vypouštějí neúměrně velké množství skleníkových plynů. Nová studie se ale poprvé snaží určit, zda se tato příjmová nerovnost nějakým způsobem promítá do odpovědnosti za klimatickou krizi.

„Naše studie ukazuje, že extrémní klimatické dopady nejsou jen důsledkem abstraktních globálních emisí, ale můžeme je přímo spojit s naším životním stylem a investičními rozhodnutími, která zase souvisejí s bohatstvím,“ uvedla pro The Guardian Sarah Schöngartová, analytička klimatického modelování a hlavní autorka studie.

Desetina nejbohatších lidí je zodpovědná za dvě třetiny globálního oteplení, zjistila studie - Novinky
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/veda-skoly-desetina-nejbohatsich-lidi-je-zodpovedna-za-dve-tretiny-globalniho-otepleni-zjistila-studie-40522990

Extreme Weather - NASA Science
https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/extreme-weather/

The Earth is tracking towards somewhere between RCP 2.6 and 4.5, which would translate to about 2.7°C of warming by 2100.

Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
https://www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/05/earth-is-heading-for-2.7c-warming-this-century-we-may-avoid-the-worst-climate-scenarios-but-the-outlook-is-still-dire

World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head says | Cop30 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/andre-correa-do-lago-cop30-interview-climate-crisis

The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis, the president of global climate talks has warned.

André Corrêa do Lago, the veteran Brazilian diplomat who will direct this year’s UN summit, Cop30, believes his biggest job will be to counter the attempt from some vested interests to prevent climate policies aimed at shifting the global economy to a low-carbon footing.

“There is a new kind of opposition to climate action. We are facing a discredit of climate policies. I don’t think we are facing climate denial,” he said, referring to the increasingly desperate attempts to pretend there is no consensus on climate science that have plagued climate action for the past 30 years. “It’s not a scientific denial, it’s an economic denial.”

This economic denial could be just as dangerous and cause as much delay as repeated attempts to deny climate science in previous years, he warned in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.

Damages: New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases Litigation

A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists compiles in one place all the documentary evidence on the role of fossil fuel companies in obstructing climate policy. We walk through the latest, and get an update on climate cases in the U.S.

Podcasts - Drilled - Damages: New Evidence and an Update on U.S. Climate Cases | Drilled
https://drilled.media/podcasts/drilled/11/decades-delay?content=transcription

Nakonec bude Cina svetovym leadrem v dekarbonizaci. Kdo by to pred par lety rekl...

China's CO2 emissions have started falling – is this finally the peak? | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480289-chinas-co2-emissions-have-started-falling-is-this-finally-the-peak/

China, the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, has seen a slight decline in those emissions over the past twelve months, even as demand for power has gone up. This is an encouraging sign the country’s massive buildout of clean energy has begun to displace fossil fuels – but emissions could still surge again.

That is according to an analysis of China’s economic and energy data by Lauri Myllivirta at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a research organisation in Finland. According to the report, published in Carbon Brief, China’s CO2 emissions have declined by 1 per cent over the past 12 months; in the first quarter of 2025 alone emissions declined by 1.6 per cent relative to last year.
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This isn’t the first time China’s CO2 emissions have dipped. For instance, they dropped in 2022 as the economy came to a standstill during covid-19 lockdowns. But this is the first time emissions have fallen even as the country has used more power. “That, of course, means the current fall in emissions has a much better chance of being sustained,” says Myllivirta.

This is mainly a consequence of China’s record build-out of solar, wind and nuclear power, which is beginning to eat into the total electricity generated by burning fossil fuels. Wider economic shifts away from cement and steel production, which are carbon-intensive industries, have also contributed to the decline. Another factor is the jump in the share of people driving electric vehicles, which has cut into the demand for oil.

If China maintains these trends, its carbon emissions could continue to fall. A sustained drop would indicate the country has passed peak emissions, putting it several years ahead of its 2030 target. The achievement would represent a substantial physical and psychological milestone for efforts to tackle climate change, says Myllivirta.

Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity
https://mailchi.mp/caa/large-cloud-feedback-confirms-high-climate-sensitivity

Earth is getting darker, reflecting back to space a decreasing portion of the sunlight incident on Earth. This provides crucial information on cloud changes and climate sensitivity. See - 14 May Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity -

“Earth’s albedo (reflectivity) declined over the 25 years of precise satellite data, with the decline so large that this change must be mainly reduced reflection of sunlight by clouds. Part of the cloud change is caused by reduction of human-made atmospheric aerosols, which act as condensation nuclei for cloud formation, but most of the cloud change is cloud feedback that occurs with global warming. The observed albedo change proves that clouds provide a large, amplifying, climate feedback. This large cloud feedback confirms high climate sensitivity, consistent with paleoclimate data and with the rate of global warming in the past century.”

Just Stop Oil has ended its campaign of direct action, yet many activists still face years in prison. In the final episode, Rivkah and Clare find out whether their commitment to their cause has wavered. They also speak to veteran climate campaigner Roger Hallam, currently serving a four-year sentence, about his role in sending young activists to prison.

Was Prison Worth It? | Committed Episode 4
https://youtu.be/8DBEKH83otE?si=jrAQK_zbYSkp1PdI

Tory shadow energy minister claims 2050 net zero goal ‘not based on science’ | Conservatives | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/13/tory-shadow-energy-minister-claims-2050-net-zero-goal-not-based-on-science


The Conservative party’s energy spokesperson has attacked leading climate scientists as biased and claimed Kemi Badenoch could take the UK out of the Paris climate agreement.

Andrew Bowie, the acting shadow secretary for energy, told the Guardian that the target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – passed into law by Theresa May – was “arbitrary” and “not based on science”.

He also indicated that the UK’s participation in the 2015 Paris climate agreement was up for reconsideration in the party’s ongoing review of key policies. The only other country to have withdrawn from the agreement is the US, twice, under Donald Trump.

Bowie said: “We are not climate deniers and while we believe in getting to net zero, what we shouldn’t do is be hamstrung by arbitrary targets such as a date of 2050, which was concocted simply because it was a good end point as a date. There’s no scientific rationale for choosing 2050 as the point to which we should reach net zero.”

Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/two-thirds-of-global-heating-caused-by-richest-study-suggests

Vzhledem k tomu, že 10% je 800 000 nejbohatších, tedy v podstatě s velkou pravděpodobností i my všichni (třeba každý druhý na Západě?) se obávám, že to může být i pravda.

Faced with major security challenges, Europe is preparing to boost its defence capacity. To defend itself against Russia without the United States, Europe needs to rapidly increase spending from the current level of about 2 percent of GDP to an estimated 3.5 percent of GDP – an increase of about €250 billion annually (Burilkov and Wolff, 2025). In March, the European Commission proposed the ReArm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030 1 , which seeks to mobilise €800 billion in defence spending.

Some see increased defence spending as being in conflict with the climate agenda 2 , arguing that boosting defence spending by 1.5 percent of GDP while increasing climate spending by 2 percent of GDP, as required to meet EU climate objectives (Pisani-Ferry and Tagliapietra, 2024), would be unsustainable.

While there will be a trade-off when it comes to public spending – especially in the budgets of countries with more limited fiscal space than Germany, but also in the EU budget itself – the defence and climate agendas are not entirely in conflict. Here, we outline seven major converging interests. These areas should form the basis for a common defence and climate agenda which would allow the EU to develop more coherent policy for the future.

Defence and climate: seven points for a common agenda
https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/defence-and-climate-seven-points-common-agenda

Aviation industry is ‘failing dramatically’ on climate, insiders say | Airline emissions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/aviation-industry-failing-dramatically-on-climate-insiders-say

The aviation industry is “failing dramatically” in its efforts to tackle its role in the climate crisis, according to a newly formed group of aviation professionals.

They say they are torn between their passion for flying and their concern for the planet and are calling for a fundamental transition of the industry, including controlling flight numbers.

In March (2025?), 440 winter and summer Olympians representing more than 90 countries and 50 sports wroteExternal link an open letter to candidates for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee. They expressed concern about the risks that climate change poses to many sports and called for the organisation to take more action to fight climate change. This included setting standards for sponsorships, upholding sustainable practices, and strengthening commitments to cut carbon emissions.

Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund Cuts Off a Key Nonprofit Monitoring Corporate Climate Efforts – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/jeff-bezo-earth-fund-ends-support-nonprofit-science-based-targets-initiative-sbti-corporate-climate-efforts-paris/

The Bezos Earth Fund has stopped its support for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an international body that assesses if companies are decarbonizing in line with the Paris agreement. Earth Fund had been one of two core funders of the SBTi, with the Ikea Foundation: The two accounted for 61 percent of its total funding last year. Earth Fund’s decision was first reported by the Financial Times.

Spokespeople for Earth Fund and SBTi said the $18 million grant had been a three-year commitment that expired as previously agreed, and Earth Fund had not made a final decision on future support. But researchers familiar with the SBTi, as well as advisers at the organization, raised concerns that the vanishing support was part of a broader trend of wealthy individuals moving away from funding causes that the US president—who has previously called climate change a hoax—did not agree with

XCHAOS: climate change has been cancelled