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Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | Simon Evans Read here: buff.ly/3zociwF

“It’s clear the climate crisis is pushing disasters to record-breaking new levels of destruction…This is not a tomorrow problem. This is happening right now in every economy” ⁦Simon Stiell⁩ via ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩ #ClimateCrisis #HurricaneBeryl on.ft.com/3XJAvrl

Interesting how the Tories’ attempt to make climate change a wedge issue failed. ‘In the South East - where the Conservatives lost 51 seats - 1 in 4 voters said it was the party's stance on climate change and the environment that was a key reason they were not voting for them’

World in line for hottest year as 1.5C limit breached for 12 months in a row ft.com/content/31e565… Attracta Mooney @ft

2024 on track to become warmest on record as global surface air temperatures breach threshold of 1.5C for each of past 12 months and seas reach their warmest for 15 months in a row: ✍️ Attracta Mooney ft.com/content/31e565…

NEW: Petrostate and #COP29 host Azerbaijan will launch a new fund with “at least” $500mn to de-risk climate investments (For reference: the UAE announced its own fund at COP28 last year with $30bn) Story with Attracta Mooney ft.com/content/05d247…

FT: "Surface air temperatures breached the threshold of 1.5C for each of the past 12 months and seas reached their warmest for 15 months in a row. June was the 13th consecutive month to be the hottest on the books"

NEW: Global sea surface temperatures set new daily records for 469 consecutive days in 2023-24 with the North Atlantic particularly affected. Read Attracta Mooney's deep dive on ocean temperatures with excellent #dataviz from Jana Tauschinski ft.com/content/76c374…

Will the world's boiling oceans cool and are they reaching their limits in the vital role they play in protecting the planet against the worst extremes of climate change? w/ great maps and charts from Steven Bernard Jana Tauschinski on.ft.com/3LzevrM

Guys, the world is finally appreciating bogs! Flow Country in Scotland has becomes the world’s first peatland world heritage site. (my leaving cert geography special topic was Offaly's bogs!)

ICYMI: my lunch with the the UN's top meteorologist Celeste Saulo. "[Climate change] is not a movie. This is real life. You cannot turn off the TV and pretend nothing is happening. You are in the middle of the story" on.ft.com/4g6XWl7

Some of the reader comments on the Apple/Ireland tax story are 👌 (also solid user names) on.ft.com/3ToZw8h

“At this stage, it looks extremely bleak” Oil rich nations are making a concerted effort to stonewall talks on fossil fuel phase out, COP29 negotiators tell Attracta Mooney Aime Williams and I on.ft.com/4dY1gO7

‘If Trump comes into power, there will be a destruction of the IRA and we will lose pace. It will mean that the signal to the world is, at best, another four years of pause on the action’ #climate ⁦Johan Rockström⁩ tells ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩ on.ft.com/3XqiAUC

"The scale and pace of [China’s] transition away from fossil fuels has smashed international forecasts, exceeded Beijing’s own targets — and put the rest of the world on notice." ft.com/content/4afdd3…

Will the peace COP live up to its billing? Armenia's president tells my colleague Attracta Mooney that Azerbaijan and Armenia are targetting a peace deal before #COP29 ft.com/content/b394e7… Financial Times

Armenia aims to sign peace deal with Azerbaijan before COP29 ft.com/content/b394e7… via Attracta Mooney

More or less every paragraph of this story is very worrying: World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024 ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩ Financial Times ⁦⁩ on.ft.com/3PwzcH0

Most big polluters to miss UN deadline for 2035 climate targets Handful of countries ready to submit plans to tackle global warming in the next decade. Attracta Mooney alicemhancock buff.ly/4gtqqnS

Glacier gets Himalayan funeral as thousands of ice sheets ‘die’. Scientists warn of a rapid acceleration in the loss of land ice sheets, compounding climate change. Attracta Mooney | Financial Times ft.com/content/78c1ac…