Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection

Brazil's Supreme Court endorses drought and wildfire spending, without hitting fiscal target

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Supreme Court on Sunday authorized the government to exempt spending on wildfires and droughts in the Amazon and Pantanal regions from this year’s fiscal target as the country grapples with the economic impacts of its worst drought on record

Sep 16, 2024

Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection

Brazil's Amazon drought disrupts residents' lives

Severe droughts across Brazil's Amazon rainforest region are drastically altering residents' lives as mobility is hampered by record-low levels on upper stretches of the Amazon River

Sep 16, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Policy & Regulation

Nearly 300 prisoners escape Nigerian prison after floods

ABUJA (Reuters) - Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday

Sep 16, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Policy & Regulation

System off coast of Carolinas could become potential tropical cyclone, NHC says

A system off the coast of the Carolinas is expected to bring heavy rains and coastal flooding as it becomes a potential tropical cyclone, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday. There is a 70% chance that the weather system could become a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the Miami-based forecaster said

Sep 16, 2024

Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection

Climate protesters block Dutch highway while police strike

Climate activists blocked a major traffic artery in the Netherlands on Saturday, the latest in a series of demonstrations against government subsidies on fossil fuels. With policing of the protest light due to a strike, around 500 activists marched onto a highway that leads into the centre of The Hague, seat of the Dutch government, around midday

Sep 15, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Policy & Regulation

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

SURUCUCU, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil has almost squashed the illegal gold rush that led thousands of wildcat miners into the Yanomami reservation in the Amazon rainforest and caused a humanitarian crisis of disease and malnutrition, the man in charge of operations said

Sep 15, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation

Exclusive-Indonesia's Prabowo plans $65 billion green fund from selling carbon credits

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto plans to launch a green economy fund by selling carbon emission credits from projects such as rainforest preservation, aiming to raise $65 billion by 2028, an adviser told Reuters

Sep 14, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change, Energy Management, Technology, Climate Policy & Regulation

EU approves 682 million euros Belgian state aid to support renewable offshore wind energy

EU regulators approved a 682 million euro ($756.54 million) Belgian state aid scheme to support renewable offshore wind energy, the European Commission said in a statement. The measure will support the construction and operation of a wind farm in the North Sea that is expected to have a capacity of 700 MW and to generate at least 2

Sep 14, 2024

Climate Change, Climate Policy & Regulation, Environment Protection

The Hague will ban street ads for fossil fuels from January

The Hague will ban street advertising for fossil fuels, a notice published on Friday on the Dutch city's website showed, as a number of cities worldwide crack down on publicity for fossil fuels and high-emissions sectors

Sep 14, 2024

Environment Protection, Climate Change

Italy court orders retrial in deadly pollution case linked to ex-Ilva steelworks

An Italian appeals court overturned a 2021 ruling convicting 37 people and three firms for deadly pollution linked to the former Ilva steelworks on Friday and ordered a retrial, ANSA news agency said

Sep 14, 2024

Brazil's Supreme Court endorses drought and wildfire spending, without hitting fiscal target

Sep 16, 2024

Brazil's Amazon drought disrupts residents' lives

Sep 16, 2024

Nearly 300 prisoners escape Nigerian prison after floods

Sep 16, 2024

System off coast of Carolinas could become potential tropical cyclone, NHC says

Sep 16, 2024

Climate protesters block Dutch highway while police strike

Sep 15, 2024

Brazil says it has nearly cleared gold miners from Amazon Yanomami reservation

Sep 15, 2024

Exclusive-Indonesia's Prabowo plans $65 billion green fund from selling carbon credits

Sep 14, 2024

EU approves 682 million euros Belgian state aid to support renewable offshore wind energy

Sep 14, 2024

The Hague will ban street ads for fossil fuels from January

Sep 14, 2024