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Here’s a selection of today’s environment related news from around the web. We do the hard work, so you don’t have to.

'Whoever You Are, Wherever You Are, We Need You': 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Calls for Global Climate Strike

"Science has clearly told us that we need to act now to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming," the young climate activist says in calling for day of action on Friday

Common Dreams

Concluding #COP24 Without Bold Climate Action Plan 'Would Be Suicidal,' UN Chief Warns

"I do not want my granddaughters or anybody else's to suffer the consequences of our failures," says António Guterres, calling on world leaders to finalize an ambitious rulebook for the Paris agreement

Common Dreams

'We Need an Unprecedented Transformation in Every Sector': 250 Climate Activists Stage Sit-in at Pelosi's San Francisco Office

Protest follows surge of support for the Green New Deal, with more than a dozen House Democrats signing on to the call since Monday

Common Dreams

Calling Promotion Betrayal of Planet, Groups Denounce Schumer for Giving 'Fossil Fuel Servant' Joe Manchin Top Spot on Energy Committee

"Appointing Senator Manchin as ranking member of the Energy Committee is completely at odds with any plan for real climate action."

Common Dreams

Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions

EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries pledge action to keep level of global warming below 1.5C

the Guardian

Neil Young's made a start, but the arts must do more to oppose dirty money | Molly Scott Cato

Galleries and arts promoters should be made to feel too ashamed to take money from industries linked with climate breakdown, says Green party MEP Molly Scott Cato

the Guardian

Australia’s carbon emissions highest on record, data shows

If emissions continue at current rate, Australia will miss Paris target by 1.1bn tonnes, Ndevr Environmental predicts

the Guardian

The Guardian view on global warming: time is running out | Editorial

Editorial: Rightwing nationalism threatens the global solidarity needed to avoid a climate catastrophe

the Guardian

U.N. chief calls for compromise, sacrifice at climate talks

“This means sacrifices, but it will benefit us all collectively,” Antonio Guterres said.

POLITICO

Saudi version of climate justice rejected by developing countries

Oil-rich country's resistance to welcoming findings of science report on 1.5C warming has marked it out from poorer countries

Climate Home News

Global Bankers Spurn Trump’s Pleas to Keep Making Loans for Coal

U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to recruit international lenders to his pro-coal crusade.

Bloomberg.com

El Niños to strengthen because of global warming, will cause 'more extreme weather', study says

El Niños will be stronger and more frequent in the decades ahead due to global warming, a study released Wednesday said.

USA TODAY

‘We are 12 years from potential climate catastrophe – here’s how we can walk back from the brink’

On one level, climate change is the most complex global challenge in human history. On another, it is simple: cleaning up the world economy will tackle climate change, while making us happier, healthier and wealthier

The Independent

Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

Evaluation of the efficiency of land-use changes and their effect on global carbon storage shows that several land-use and consumption choices relevant to climate policy have greater implications than previously thought.

Nature

As climate change bites in America’s midwest, farmers are desperate to ring the alarm

‘The changes have become more radical’: farmers are spending more time and money trying to grow crops in new climates

the Guardian

2018: The Year in Climate Change

From dire climate reports to ravenous urchins and vanishing heritage sites, here are the climate stories you shouldn’t miss from this year.

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Around the World, Climate Goals Clash With Reality

As negotiators at United Nations climate talks in Poland this week hammer out a rulebook to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, some of the biggest boosters of the 2015 Paris accord are undermining efforts back home to curb global warming.

WSJ

ScienceDirect

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Cities Prepare to Face New Disasters (Published 2018)

You can’t fight nature in terms of the calamities that have hit their cities, but you can learn to accommodate it — or, at least, “Stay out of nature’s way.”

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Trump Has Officially Ruined Climate Change Diplomacy for Everyone

The evidence is in: the Paris Agreement doesn’t work without the United States.

Foreign Policy

More Floods and More Droughts: Climate Change Delivers Both (Published 2018)

More records for both wet and dry weather are being set around the globe, according to a study published Wednesday.

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World’s first zero-emission cement plant takes shape in Norway

Norway is getting closer to building the world’s first carbon-free cement plant, a move that could reverberate across the globe as 197 countries meet for the UN's annual climate conference in Katowice, Poland.

www.euractiv.com

We need a non-proliferation treaty for fossil fuels | Letter

Letter: ‘Peaceful use’ of fossil fuels could mean their continued but decreasing extraction, within enforceable limits constrained by the Paris agreement goals, writes Hugh Richards

the Guardian

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