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"Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action?"
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Q&A: How will the World Bank’s abandoned finance goal affect climate action? - Carbon Brief
The World Bank has abandoned a target for 45% of the funding it gives developing countries to be “climate finance”.

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse? https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scientists-climate-extreme-storm-wildfire.html

How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly,
Sadiq Khan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/burning-summer-climate-denial-green-policies-sadiq-khan…

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

Humanity has less than a five year window to take decisive action on climate change, the UK’s former chief scientist told the opening session of the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne.
“We have to move rapidly,” said Professor Sir David King, founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University...
Reader, that was five years ago. We've done nothing.
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Forget 2050, experts say it's 2030 or bust for net zero emissions
Former UK chief scientist Sir David King pulled no punches beaming into Melbourne's National Climate Emergency summit, arguing for a fast track to zero emissions and urgent deployment of carbon draw-down technologies. Benjamin Silvester reports.

Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal (Hiroko Tabuchi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate…

New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

Terrifying, but not surprising:
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/07/scientists-technology-less-likely-climate-…

Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action
‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

"GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say"
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GB News co-owner ‘cashing in on climate chaos’ after leap in fossil fuel investments, critics say
Exclusive: Campaigners argue the news channel’s attacks on climate action ‘work in financial interests’ of Sir Paul Marshall

"Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds"
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Human-driven climate crisis fuels Canada’s deadly wildfires, study finds
Current blazes roaring across country more than twice as likely to occur because of fossil fuel-driven global heating

"What we know about the link between Nepal’s flash floods and our climate crisis"
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What we know about the link between Nepal’s flash floods and our climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: The full scale of the disaster is still emerging, but as rescue efforts continue, scientists warn that a warming Himalayas could mean more deadly hazards

"BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence"
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BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence
Bureau of Meteorology suggests El Niño has already broken records, with Pacific ocean temperature change exceeding 2C in six months