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China is leading the way in green energy in many respects. It accounted for over 50% of the world's combined new wind and solar installation last year and are expected to be responsible for increasing the world's global capacity by 85% by 2025.

And although it is still the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, its per capita emissions are still far lower than most western nations - 28th from the top spot (2020).

@AomoriExpat From what I’ve read most of these fires have been intentional started by humans and some by climate activists themselves

Really? I'd love to see some of the sources of these 'readings'

The science is relatively simple, hotter drier weather, combined with higher chances of lightening, which is also the result of warmer air are obviously going to lead to a higher incidence of forest fires.

it intends to resume operations Thursday morning.

In other words they are going to roll over and pay the ransom... so encouraging hacker groups to continue their 'work'.

Records are being not just broken, but smashed almost on a daily basis (June average temperature, sea temperatures...)

Many of these events are relegated to regular, rather than headline news - part of the same problem - society in general is not treating the climate issue as the 'crisis' that it clearly is.

 was found guilty Tuesday but avoided jail time.

So what's the point of the court system here?

I've just had to give two fail grades for two essays that I suspected were AI generated. Two AT checking tools were 98% confident the texts were AT generated.

So it seems the education ministry needs to release guidelines for universities, not just schools.

Based on the 'precautionary principle' upon which sustainable development rests, geo-engineering should not even be considered.

Look at our track record on what could be said to be our first geo-engineering project - the mass burning of fossil fuels since the 1800's.

Besides, any geo-engineering project to combat climate change will be used as an excuse for business as usual by those alined with the FF industry.

Good news but may be the article should be in the environment section.

We have a compost toilet and people are always amazed how normal looking the compost looks and smells.

Other than upcycling waste, compost toilets also save huge amounts of water which is otherwise wasted with regular toilets.

 @commanter: in the summer there is a limit to how much you can take off - so air conditioning is needed. 

Well, more houses could be designed better so they don't need air conditioning.

We designed and built our house to power itself and to rely on passive cooling - no Air Conditioning. And I'm not an expert or a qualified architect.

A final section looking at some solutions would have been useful.

Things people, communities, regions etc can do to help mitigate the worse effects of this fast growing but still largely ignored crisis

To help reduce energy, how about start by not cutting down the trees in Meiji Jingu Gaien.

While other major cities (London, NY ...) are greening their centers - which can substantially reduce air temperatures, Tokyo seems to be making no progress at tackling its heat island effect.

The video in the link is just weird.

Another total waste of research time and resources.

Keeping such animals inside is abuse.

Our goats are only inside if there is strong wind, rain, or snow.

And they are always happy to get back outside.

Very good to see these environment articles regularly appearing.

However, given the severity of the issue of climate change, I'm always left wondering why news articles like this one aren't headline news.

As a famous teenager once said, we need to act as if our house is on fire. Or as the head of the UN recently said, our inaction is going to be collective suicide.

LOL little ole Denmark doing their best to destroy western civilization.

Right... and yet is year after year ranked one of the happiest countries in the world (currently #2).

A clear demonstration of what's wrong with the system, and the cause of most of the major issues we face.

Companies are owned and run for the sole purpose of maximising profits, no matter the real social and environmental costs.

It's astonishing that people still down thumb comments that simply present facts.

Is it because they don't like the facts, or that they don't like to know the facts?

It's good news but unfortunately, no amount of money will save the coral reefs unless more serious action is taken to reduce climate change.

It's predicted that 70~90 of coral is to be severely damaged/die off with just 1.5C of warming, which is basically guaranteed to happen by 2050, and that rises to 99% of coral if/when 2C of warming is reached.

@tora LOL that jungle was all savanna only about 2,000 years ago.

LOL!!!!! OMG.

Actually, the Amazon is around 10 million years old.

Japan's population was 72m just after WWII. 125m is way too many people, particularly when you consider 70% of Japan is mountainous and over 90% of the population confine themselves to the dense urban cityscapes.

Many quality of life improvements could be realised if the government just manage the changing demographics (falling and aging population) with sensible long-term policies rather than knee-jerk, vote-motivated policies.

No mention of the fact that this storm was one of the 10 strongest ever recorded.

Let's hope it doesn't re-strengthen.

Typhoon Mawar is heading right for Guam and is currently a category 4, possibly intensifying to a super typhoon.

Interesting fact: according to the Democracy Index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in their 2018 survey, four out of the top five democracies in the world were monarchies

The tricky part, he said, would be figuring out how to store this energy and pump it across the vast distances between Australian towns and cities.

Not tricky. Perfect conditions for transitioning to a hydrogen society. Use excess renewable energy to make hydrogen which can be stored and transported, AND used for transportation.

@Tora the article you refer to was based on Lomborg, the infamous Climate Change sceptic. And if your goto place for information is the NYP, may be you also read the article

Scientists warn sea level rise could be much worse than current predictions

... more food production

Really?

The UN is predicting global food production to fall by 30% by 2050 due to climate change.

More people need to get informed about the realities of climate change.

21 of the hottest years have occurred in this century. And with La Niña's cooling effect last year, 2022 was still the 6th hottest year on record.

So with the heating of El Niño, the reality of climate change is going to be starker.

Let's hope at least, it finally leads to real commitment to decoupling the economic system from fossil fuel.

G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline set

Of course. They don't want to upset their main donors and lobbyists - oil, gas industry - too much.

We need to move on and get ready for the next phase and work out how to survive on a planet that has begun to overheat.

Agreed, but part of the solution is to lead a simpler less consuming lifestyle.

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@ifd66 Nice trolling. Though you didn't understand what 15 minute cities mean and what impacts the EVs have.

I majored in sustainable development and teach it at university. I am fully aware of the term. 15-minute cities - the urban planning concept to make cities less reliant on cars and in general more liveable sustainable environments.

Why not do a quick search yourself for "15-minute cities" and get informed?