Many in Brazil feared deforestation during another Bolsonaro term would irreversibly damage the rainforest, which is home to 25% of the world’s biodiversity. But with Lula reclaiming leadership, he vowed to wage war on hunger, racism and to combat environmental destruction which has soared under Bolsonaro. “We will fight for zero deforestation in the Amazon…Brazil and the planet need the Amazon alive.”
More than two-thirds of voters have backed the government intervening in the energy market to curb soaring power prices, after the Albanese government’s first budget did little to ease widespread cost-of-living concerns. As the government flagged further intervention in the energy market as gas and electricity prices are expected to surge, the poll suggested most voters believed the government could do more.
And concerning COP27 news: India will use next week's U.N. climate conference to urge rich countries to keep their promise to give $100 billion a year in funding to help developing nations deal with climate change and switch to cleaner energy.
Climate scientists hail Brazil election results as a victory for 'humanity and life itself'
The fate of the Amazon rainforest was on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election runoff on Sunday, according to climate change experts, and with the narrow victory for former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over President Jair Bolsonaro, they say the Amazon and the planet won. Many in Brazil had feared that deforestation during another Bolsonaro term would irreversibly damage the rainforest, which is home to 25% of the world’s biodiversity.
Guardian Essential poll: two-thirds of voters back intervention in the energy market as power prices soar
A survey after Jim Chalmers’ first budget suggests that people are pessimistic about the economic outlook amid cost-of-living pressures.
India to press rich countries to keep climate fund pledge
India will use next week's U.N. climate conference to urge rich countries to keep their promise to give $100 billion a year in funding to help developing nations deal with climate change and switch to cleaner energy.
Victorian and federal governments to announce $877m package for flood recovery
Victorian businesses in flood-affected areas will be able to receive up to $200,000 in grants as part of an $877m support package to be announced by the state and federal governments. Under the scheme, grants of up to $50,000 will be made available to eligible businesses and not-for-profit organisations to aid recovery efforts, including rebuilding infrastructure and replacing damaged assets.
Victoria to sponsor Australian Diamonds netball team after Hancock Prospecting exit
The Victorian government has announced a four-and-a-half-year deal to become the new sponsor of Netball Australia after Hancock Prospecting’s withdrawal from its $15m partnership amid controversy earlier this month.
Australian rainfall records tumble as NSW and Murray-Darling Basin record wettest October on record
This month was the wettest October on record for New South Wales and the Murray-Darling Basin, breaking the 1950 records. The Bureau of Meteorology is still crunching the numbers, but Australia overall and Victoria are forecast to have one of their two wettest Octobers on record.
Renewable energy contributes record 68.7% of power to Australia’s main grid for brief period
Renewable energy generation hit a new record on Friday, briefly contributing more than two-thirds of the power in Australia’s main grid. According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo), the milestone was set at 12.30 pm, with a contribution of 68.7%, or 18,882MW, from renewable sources. Of total power in the grid on Friday, 34% came from distributed solar, which outstripped black coal’s contribution of 22%.
In Germany, a wind farm is dismantled to make way for an expanded lignite coal mine
German energy company RWE has begun dismantling a small wind farm to make way for the expansion of an adjacent lignite coal mine, a move the company willingly acknowledges as “paradoxical”.