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New research shows major lenders are accelerating their investment in Big Oil as the industry turns toward plastics and petrochemicals.

Closed-door talks over the World Bank’s climate agenda have stalled, as the US pushes to scrap green targets and expand support for fossil fuels

Terwijl regeringen in Europa en Noord-Amerika nog worstelen met de vraag hoe ze de impact van AI op werkgelegenheid moeten aanpakken, heeft een rechtbank in de Chinese stad Hangzhou een opmerkelijke uitspraak gedaan. De boodschap is eenvoudig: technologische vooruitgang is welkom, maar bedrijven mogen de sociale kosten daarvan niet zomaar afwentelen op werknemers.

Y a-t-il un lien entre le plastique et les ouragans Sandy et Katrina, aux États-Unis, la fonte des glaciers dans l’Antarctique, les vagues de chaleur pendant l’été, l’érosion du littoral en Australie — et quantité d’autres catastrophes naturelles qui s’abattent sur nous avec une fréquence accrue ? Nous incriminons le changement climatique. Mais l’impact des déchets plastiques et de l’industrie du plastique sur le changement climatique est souvent méconnu ou, pire, pris à la légère.

Via de Bankbabbel houden we je op de hoogte over het reilen en zeilen in de bankenwereld. We prikken door de groene praatjes, brengen de dubieuze deals boven water en vieren de kleine én grote overwinningen.

Dans l'affaire Epstein, Bank of America règle 72,5 millions de dollars avec les victimes, niant tout manquement.

The latest Lancet Countdown report warns that health impacts of climate change are worsening, with millions dying needlessly each year due to fossil fuel dependence, growing greenhouse gas emissions, and failure to adequately adapt. As some countries and companies rollback on climate commitments, local and grassroots leadership is building momentum for a healthier future.​ The report represents the work of 128 experts from 71 institutions, monitoring progress across 57 indicators – from heat-related deaths to bank lending to fossil fuels – providing the most comprehensive assessment yet of the links between climate change and health.

The world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy” that is harming billions of people, a UN report has declared. The overuse and pollution of water must be tackled urgently, the report’s lead author said, because no one knew when the whole system could collapse, with implications for peace and social cohesion. All life depends on water but the report found many societies had long been using water faster than it could be replenished annually in rivers and soils, as well as over-exploiting or destroying long-term stores of water in aquifers and wetlands.

“Water crisis” has become the default label for almost any episode of water stress, from short-lived droughts to decades-long overuse of rivers and aquifers. Yet in many regions of the world, water problems no longer resemble a crisis in the conventional sense. They represent a post-crisis failure state in which human–water systems have exceeded their hydrological carrying capacities, and societies have spent beyond their sustainable hydrological budgets for so long that critical water assets are depleted, some ecosystem damages are irreversible on human time scales, and a return to “normal” is infeasible even with prohibitive economic, social, and environmental costs.

Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible damage pushes many basins beyond recovery